
Faheem Rashad Najim, the musician better known as T-Pain, has revealed the heavy price developer Rockstar demanded in return for his work on the upcoming GTA 6. The artist featured on Flo Rida's Low would no longer be able to frequent the popular GTA 5 roleplaying server NoPixel, which he seems genuinely sad about.
In a clip doing the rounds on social media, T-Pain revealed the tragic news in response to a fan inquiry, who had noted the artist's absence on the popular server. In response, he explained that Rockstar said he couldn't RP any more because, describing: "What if somebody took your album and re-recorded it, and more people were listening to that,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I kind of get that, but I was having a good time."
In a fun twist, Rockstar actually hired the modders responsible for NoPixel, a development which T-Pain laughingly called out: "Then I started working on the game with them, and then they teamed up with the people that make the RP sh*t, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, what? What the f**ck?...Y'all tell me I can't do this sh*t, and then you team up with the people that enable the RP?"
It remains to be seen what role (pardon the pun) T-Pain will play in GTA 6, or hope a big a focus the game places on community role-play, but we hope development on the project goes swiftly. Presumably, once the game is out in the wild, the Grammy Award-winning, certified diamond artist will get back to doing what we all love best: assuming the role of someone else in a virtual world. Be whoever you want to be in the comments section below.
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Just to give an aside to this article — T-Pain actually has an incredible singing voice. People should look up some of his a-cappella performances; they are quite fantastic.
If you didn't see his cover of War Pigs you gotta go listen. Ozzy called it the best, too
I do genuinely enjoy GTA RP streams. Jaboody, Milton, Roxmiral, and Burn are all great at it and I really enjoy them.
Some of the work the FiveM team did was class in GTA 5. I can only imagine what's coming to the base game of 6 and let's face it, lots of people will want RP servers baked into it for console. I don't think it'll happen, but it's hopeful when the pc version drops RP will be available early on
@zhoont war pigs? Class I liked post Malone's cover of Alice in chains them bones , another fun song to play on a 3 string cigar box guitar lol
@Kraven it’s kinda wild that it wasn’t already evident with all the hits he was featured on in the 2000’s , you couldn’t go wrong with having tpain on the chorus . even with auto-tune you can still subtlety hear the persons voice .
Hopefully he'll be on a boat at some point in the game.
Nopixle make heists way more fun than the standard gta versions.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in the dark about what exactly RP is?
@N1ghtW1ng
I know RP stands for roleplaying, but this article does a very poor job at explaining anything to the initiated. I'm not sure what I'm reading. What the hell is a roleplay sever? And what does this guy do exactly, music or game dev? Very confusing article.
@Icey664 RP or Roleplay Servers like NoPixel require that everyone makes up a character with a name and backstory (e.g. a failed singer with a drug problem) and plays that role without breaking character. Everyone in the GTAV world on these servers is another human being playing their own role.
It's meant to be incredible if you like that sort of thing, but reading accounts of people who quit many eventually get tired of it feeling more like real life and more like a chore/job.
I hope they bring RP to the main game as to my knowledge you can’t join in those modes on PlayStation so I hope for gta6 it’s built in from the start when gta online comes for gta6
F*** Rockstar
They don't deserve T-Pain.
Grand theft auto 6 looks amazing.cant wait.word up son
They got my boy NemRaps in GTA6, that’s crazy
I'm guessing GTA 6 Online will have a built-in role play server type function? That would be really cool. Hoping they bring back cops & robbers
@themightyant
Thank you for explaining!
So because money basically....
Good old rockstar 🙄🙄🙄
I’m so confused by this… is Rockstar trying to make the case the people would rather watch T-Pain play GTAV on an RP server than play GTA6 with T-Pain playing one of the characters? This is so backwards… as a company I’d rather T-Pain be playing since it’s effectively free advertising. At this point, Rockstar should be more concerned that someone is going to use an AI voice generator to create their own T-Pain inspired story.
@Kraven Correct he had with autotune to make itnhis style but he doesn't need it unlike most rappers/singers today.
I actually saw his perform recently. Amazing artist and performer
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