T-Pain is a musician.
Faheem Rashad Najm ( born September 30 , 1985 ) , better known by his stage name T-Pain , is an American rapper , singer , songwriter and record producer from Tallahassee , Florida . In 2007 , T-Pain released his second album Epiphany , which reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart . Throughout his career as a singer , T-Pain is best known for using and popularizing the creative use of the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect , used with extreme parameter settings to create distinctive vocal sounds . Three Ringz ( stylized as Thr33 Ringz ) is the third studio album by American hip hop recording artist and producer T-Pain .