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T-Pain Nearly Left the Music Industry in the 2010s After a String of Bad Breaks: ‘You Were Wrong This Time’

T-Pain candidly opened up about how he lost his love for music in the early 2010s and how it launched him into a deep depression.

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Burnout can make anyone vehemently hate their job. It’s the risk you take making your passion your career. You come into it with pure intentions and wanting to create something beautiful and meaningful.

But once it becomes an obligation, you might lose sight of why you loved doing it in the first place. Then you’re doing it so that you can cash your checks. Even artists like T-Pain reached a point in their lives where the love they had for music was drained from them once the label was dictating matters.

In a 2015 profile with journalist Jeff Weiss and The Fader, the hip-hop and R&B legend recalled the many eras in his career. In his prime, he tinkered with street and skateboard........

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