T-Pain Shares ‘Stoicville,’ Says He’s Recorded 127 Songs For New Album

By Ezra Marcus

“Stoicville is where everybody is stoic—where nobody has emotions,” explained T-Pain in an interview with The New Yorker earlier this year. “You don’t get shit from anybody in Stoicville. That’s the town for me. That’s where I want to live.

Besides an anhedonic vacation destination, Stoicville: The Phoenix is the name of T-Pain’s upcoming studio album. He’s shared the title track, a song whose purpose he describes as “airing everything out and letting my past be the past and basically starting anew.”

Over stripped-down flutes and keys T-Pain describes the trials and tribulations of his decade in the industry—“The same n—a that told me I had a hit/ Charged me 300 to put it off in his mix,” he recalls, yelling his heart out sans Autotune. “Now suicide lookin’ better than hittin’ a lick/‘Cause the whole time he knew that I was livin’ out my whip.”

T-Pain released a Greatest Hits album on November 4th, and told The Fader he’s “127 songs” deep into Stoicville. Stay tuned.