T-PAIN’S ALBUM RELEASE PARTY RAPPER TERNT SANGA Venue: The Moon Location: Tallahassee, FL Date: December 7, 2005
champion to call their own, T-Pain has come home.
For many years, Tallahassee has watched with impatience as other regions of Florida and the Southeast received shine for their musical achievements. On December 7, 2005, the little city with a big name finally had a
Although the evening began mired in rain, The Moon (1105 E. Lafayette St.) was completely sold out as Tallahassee supported their prodigal son. This was due in large part to TJ’s DJ’s and Tallahassee’s rival radio stations WWLD and WBWT teaming to support a worthy cause. In fact, all of Tallahassee’s music stores were “Sprung” when T-Pain’s debut album, “Rappa Turnt Sanga” was sold out by 2 PM. T-Pain was forced to tears when he could proudly state, “U Got Me” to the city of Tallahassee when they officially proclaimed December 7th “T-Pain Day.” Once his emotions subsided, T-Pain took the crowd’s temperature by asking “Como Estas?” When greeted with warm applause, T-Pain knew the crowd of 1,500 was ready to “Have It,” so he said, “Let’s Get It On” and proceeded to tear the roof down. In a bittersweet moment, T-Pain shared that he was robbed at gunpoint a few days earlier. T-Pain just knew his time had come to “Fly Away.” But, with the help of Bonecrusher, T-Pain realized that he was never scared to “Say It” was time to go, he was just “Going Thru A Lot.” So to ease his suffering, he put on a tune that had the “Dance Floor” on smash! T-Pain even had E-40 and Duval’s finest Young Cash of SRC/Universal falling “In Luv Wit’ A Stripper.” Next, T-Pain revealed that ever since he hooked up with Akon, people have noticed that “Ur Not The Same.” But, T-Pain showed that Tallahassee was proud to welcome Akon as T-Pain introduced the once locked up star to “My Place.” T-Pain was not through with his surprises as he traveled to “Ridge Road” to pick up the Nappy Headz and “Blow Ya Mind” with a throwback to his robbery days. Finally, there came a time when T-Pain reached Cloud 9 with 1,500 of his closest friends showing love and support. But, the people hit Cloud 10 when Trick Daddy came out to proclaim “I’m Hi” and “I’m Sprung 2.” The evening was a true testament to the adage of it takes a village to raise a child. In this instance, Tallahassee was proud to raise this star who blossomed from a rappa into a sanga and is now ready to share this treasure with the world! - Keith “1st Prophet” Kennedy (Photos: Julia Beverly) 26
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