He also recently unearthed an unreleased 2009 mixtape he made with Lil Wayne called T-Wayne and for a moment reminded us all of T-Pain's mid-aughts glory days as the hip-hop industry's patron saint of Auto-Tune. As he's faded from the top of the charts, he's become increasingly self-aware and willing to embrace some goofier (and entertaining-as-hell) projects, like when he performed a riveting Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. In the later, quieter part of his career, T-Pain has been even more fun to watch than when he was making No.
