T-Pain’s ‘Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)’ just as good without Auto-Tune

When T-Pain tells you to “Respect big pimpin'” in his 2007 mega release “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” you better. Dude’s got talent.

T-Pain sat down with NPR for its “Tiny Desk Concert” series Wednesday. He sang “Buy U A Drank” without an ounce of Auto-Tune. And woah, it sounds just as good.

The artist is behind some of the most popular music of the 2000s but has fallen out of popularity in recent years. He attributes the decline to the same technology—Auto-Tune—that thrusted him into stardom, he told NPR

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Pain’s working on an upcoming greatest hits record, he said. With or without the Auto-Tune, it might be worth checking out.