While sitting down with heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson on his podcast, Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, autotune pioneer T-Pain discussed his new album “Precious Stones,” which is set to be his first album as an independent artist. But while reminiscing on his iconic catalog, T-Pain admitted that “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” was a joke that he came up with his friends.

“Nah, my homeboy was trying to save strippers in the club,” he

stated on the podcast after singing the tune acapella. “And the song was a joke. I’m literally making fun of him…We were just f***ing around, and Big Boy said it was dope, so I was like, ‘Yup, it sure is. Okay.’”

“I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)” went on to be a major hit song for T-Pain and put him on the map as a hip-hop artist worth noticing. In 2006, the year the song was released, it stayed on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for a whopping five months. The Tallahassee native would go on to snag his first #1 hit the following year with “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’) and a Grammy win for “Good Life,” a Kanye West collab.

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Speaking about his latest project, T-Pain also said on Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, “Basically it’s about digging deeper within. Seeing the diamonds on the surface, you dig a little deeper. You find those precious stones.” 

“We’ve always been told that diamonds are so rare, and they’re the hardest thing in the world, and they cost this much,” he continued. “If they’re so rare, why are there so many of them? I want to see the colors. I want to see the different cuts. I want to see the precious stones within all of us….It’s important, and I feel I dug a lot deeper into myself and then looked at myself from the inside.”

Fans of T-Pain can watch him perform his hit song collab with Kehlani, “I Like Dat,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Wednesday night.