T-Pain’s New Album Drops in December

To celebrate his 30th birthday, T-Pain announced that his upcoming album, Stoicville: The Phoenix, will drop in December. Pain hasn't dropped an album since 2011's Revolver but made a return to the scene with his spring 2015 mixtape, The Iron Way. With his new album, T-Pain promises to take his listeneres to "new levels of T-Pain..One banger at a time!" Pain spoke to XXL about the album earlier this summer and explained why he stepped away from the game for the last four years. "I just really didn't care anymore," he said. "It wasn't my thing anymore. My heart wasn't in it, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't like, 'I need to be famous,' you know what I mean? At first it was that; I was young just trying to see what fame was and once you find out what it is nobody wants that anymore. It didn't get boring for me, but [it was] the same shit.

Everybody was interested in the same shit, which was the exact opposite of what I wanted people to be interested in me. And I just didn't feel it anymore. I wasn't happy with what I was doing because I was being controlled with what I was doing, you know what I'm saying? I don't want people to think that I was in the Illuminati or something, but it was just the label got suggestions on what they think is going to make them the most money, your management got suggestions on what they think is going to make the team the most money, which they get a percentage of, and that was shit that I just didn't want to do. And I was like, I guess everybody has to wait until I feel like doing that shit again or until I run out of money and have to, but that ain't happening. [Laughs] So I guess I just felt like doing it again."