T-Pain
T-Pain is an actor, born 1985.
T-Pain's real work is on records, where he turned Auto-Tune into an instrument rather than a repair tool, running the pitch correction at settings nobody intended and building a style of rap-singing on top of it. A great deal of late-2000s pop sounds the way it does because of him.
His screen credits are what happens to a musician who is good company. The list here is mostly appearances as himself: hot sauce on Hot Ones, the rap battle format of Drop the Mic, the catalogue duels of VERZUZ, the pop documentary This Is Pop, Chris Rock's Good Hair. He turns up on The Eric Andre Show, which requires a particular kind of nerve, and on The Masked Singer as Monster, singing inside a costume in a format designed to make you guess.
The acting proper is thinner: a DJ in Furious 7, himself in The Boss, a voice on Squidbillies. That is an honest summary of the page, and it is the right way round for a performer whose main body of work was never filmed.
Movies (4)
TV (10)
Where to start with T-Pain
The odd place to start is The Masked Singer, because it is where his actual instrument gets displayed: a very good singer performing anonymously in a format that treats singing as a puzzle. Follow it with Hot Ones, the best long interview with him here, and This Is Pop if you want the argument about Auto-Tune made properly with him in the room.
VERZUZ and Drop the Mic are the competitive formats and he is quick in both. Good Hair is the one real documentary on the list. For the acting, Furious 7 gives him a scene as a DJ, The Boss gives him himself again, and Squidbillies is the only place he plays anything resembling a character.