Faheem Najm, known as T-Pain, is an American hip hop, R&B Singer-songwriter and producer who has been noted for using the auto-tune effect (often mis-cited as a vocoder effect) in his singing. T-Pain won his first Grammy Award for being featured in the Kanye West song "Good Life".
Prior to becoming a solo singer, Faheem was part of the rap group Nappy Headz. In 2002, he founded his own label, Hard & B, and soon caught the spotlight as a solo artist when his song "I'm Fucked Up", a reworked version of Akon's "Locked Up", gained popularity. Akon noticed the song and signed T-Pain to his newly formed Konvict Music record label.
His debut album, RappaTerntSanga, ("rapper turned singer") was released on November 6, 2005, under Konvict Music. Guest appearances included Mike Jones, Trick Daddy, Youngbloodz, Styles P., Akon, BoneCrusher, &TayDizm.
He has released his second album Epiphany on the 5th of June, 2007, that features "Buy U a Drank (ShawtySnappin')" and "Bartender" featuring Akon.
His new single is "Buy U a Drank (ShawtySnappin')" featuring Yung Joc, which he produced for his upcoming album Church. The video for "Buy U a Drank (ShawtySnappin')" was released April 9, and the song went to #1.
He has released a song for MySpace lovers, called "What's Your Myspace" featuring TayDizm.