If there was such a thing as a stripper expert,
T-Pain would be your man. The 20-year-old rapper from Tallahassee got on the pop music map before ‘I’m Sprung’ with ‘F-ed Up,’ a remix of
Akon
’s ‘Locked Up.’ The song eventually landed T-Pain on Akon’s record label ‘Konvict Music,’ where he released his first solo album ‘Rappa Ternt Sanga.’
The one song that has sparked the most buzz from his debut album is ‘I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper),’ which has sprung a couple of remixes with artists like
Paul Wall and
Trick Daddy.
T-Pain went Off Topic with BV to discuss -- surprise, surprise -- strippers among other things.
Tyra Banks went undercover on her talk show ‘Tyra’ not long ago. She said she wanted to find out why so many men frequent strip clubs, and went undercover as a stripper named Chanel. Can you think of a more appropriate name?Destiny. Because that’s usually a stripper name. If she is recognized and then she goes by Chanel, that’s too different. All strippers are basically the same. I don’t want to say all of them are the same, but there’s a million Destinys.
Strippers: marriage savers or home wreckers?No, they’re definitely not marriage savers. It doesn’t really fit either description.
Now that you’re married, how does the stripper fit into your equation?They don’t fit into my equation at all. I’m frequently at the strip club. I go to the strip club like every Wednesday because they got a barber shop in the back and I go to get a trim. It’s a big strip club, like the most famous in Miami.
You’ve heard of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ If ‘Stripping With the Stars’ were a show, who would you want to see on it?I want to see
India Arie and
Macy Gray stripping, because both of them wear real big clothes. I just want to see if they are fine or not.
How much would it take for you to strip?My wife would probably have to be there, that’s one thing. A couple hundred dollars and I’m good. That will be it.
If you were a stripper, what would your stage name be?Jiggly Draws.
Sounds like you already have a stripper name?I don't. When I performed with the
Nappy Headz, at the end of the show I would always turn around to the crowd and I could do this thing with my butt, shaking it real fast.
You married at the tender age of 18; do you miss the single life?Single life was hard. I don’t miss that at all. Single life I had a disease. You know you get those teenage VD’s, you got to get that fixed real quick. You got to go through trying to find a female. You got no car. It was just hard going through the single life. Now I got one I always go home to. Someone I can always call.
