We’ve all been waiting with bated breath for T-Pain’s new album, Stoicville: The Phoenix, to drop. Luckily, to hold us over, T-Pain is blessing with new music in the form of a stopgap DJ Drama-hosted mixtape, dropping next week. The tape will be called The Iron Way, and now we’ve got a taste of it, with “Wait a Minute,” featuring OG Maco.
If “Wait A Minute,” or the two other singles T-Pain released earlier this month from the tape, “Disa My Ting” and “Did It Anyway” are any indication, it’s clear that T-Pain is testing out ditching Autotune. From the tracks we can tell that instead he’s in favor of hard-edged street raps and in-your-face beats.
Here, Pain goes into detail about his high life, illustrating all the luxuries money can buy over rowdy production. “Wait a minute, sh-t might take a minute,” he raps on the chorus. He goes on to describe his impressive interior design: “All my n—as got work, let it cook let it bake a minute/swimmin’ in the money, my crib got a lake up in it, indoor pool outdoor pool, all my bitches getting’ naked in it.”
At one point he slips into an Auto-Tune-drenched purr, but for the most part, his voice remains unadorned throughout the song.
The Iron Way is due out on March 26th.
