Usher Raymond, or simply Usher is an eight time Grammy Award winner and an outright music superstar.
However, he’s been on the receiving end of some very harsh comments from fans over an alleged airplane conversation with music superstar, T-Pain.
T-Pain was a guest on Netflix docuseries ‘This Is Pop’ discussing his years battling depression. During the show, he pinpointed a conversation with Usher on an airplane in 2013 as the moment his depression began.
According to T-Pain, Usher had told him that he “fucked up music for real singers” with his heavy use of auto-tune in his songs. T-Pain is well known for auto-tuning his vocals on his songs.
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According to him, he fell into depression for four years because of this comment. As it came from someone he truly looked up to.
During a Billboard interview, Usher finally addressed T-Pain’s comments explaining that there were no problems with the duo now.
Usher added that he was glad T-Pain shared the story and how it impacted him with the world.
“I’m happy that T-Pain said something” he said. “I’m not sure if it was before or after our actual conversation, after I heard what was said. It was very hurtful to know that he had experienced that kind of hardship in life.
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He went on to add that he never meant to make Pain feel bad. “Private conversations for me have always been intended to uplift. But when or if people get pieces of it, they can always have some other interpretation. But we’ve spoken since and we’re good.”
You can read the full Billboard interview with Usher here.
In the interview, the 42-year-old spoke about his Las Vegas residency, his new album, touring, streaming, and also The Weeknd.