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T. Pain Planning A Return To Rap
Pain, born Faheem Najm, began rapping at the age of 10 and converted his bedroom into a studio equipped with a keyboard, beat machine and four-track recorder. However, the 20-year-old singer opted to re-focus his career even though he had moderate success with groups like Nappy Headz. "It just felt better," he explained. "It was a better feeling. It was crazy. At the time R&B wasn't cool like that. N**as was like 'Don't be doing that singing s**t. You an R&B n***a now.' It was a big decision for me so I was like f**k it. It feels better so that's what I'm doing." Without the approval of friends and disenchanted with commercial R&B, Pain crafted a merger of his two musical loves and labeled it “Hard & B.” "I aint give a damn if anybody liked the [Hard & B] s**t or not. I just wanted to do it. It was just what I felt at the time. That's all that counted to me," he concluded. T-Pain's debut I’m Sprung is set to hit stores on Dec. 6.
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