Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1985 in Tallahassee, Florida) better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter and producer. He has been noted for using autotune.
So far, T-Pain and his label mate Tay Dizm have been featured on Dolla's "Who the F*** is That?" and 2 Pistols' "She Got It". T-Pain has also appeared on Rick Ross's "The Boss", Lil Mama's "Shawty Get Loose" with Chris Brown, Mariah Carey's "Migrate", and DJ Khaled's "Go Hard" with Kanye West. He has featured songs on the Step Up 2 The Streets soundtrack which included "Church", and the number 1 hit "Low" (with Flo Rida) and wrote "Lives in the Da Club" by Sophia Fresh featuring Jay Lyriq.
He recently finished working with Ciara, He produced some of her New Album "Fantasy Ride" due out December 2008. He also produced her first single called "Go Girl", he is also featured on the song as well. The single will be released in early September.[9].He recently collaborated with record producer Timbaland for the producer's second studio album Shock Value II, on the tracks "Talk" & "Say". The songs leaked to the internet on September 5th 2008 & September 18th 2008.
For the 2008 BET Awards, the most nominations were awarded to T-Pain, at five primarily for his work in other artists' tracks.
He was featured on MTV Cribs, on episode 2 of season 16 and attended the VMAs on an elephant