T-Pain reveals we’ve been singing ‘Buy U a Drank’ wrong for 10 years

Everything you’ve known is a lie.

Well, maybe just everything you knew about T-Pain’s early hits “Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin)” and his verse on DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win.” The auto-tune god rectified some classic lyric mistakes on Wednesday. 

First, he broke down the lyrics to the 2007 track “Buy U a Drank.” In an early morning tweet, explaining that the “ooh wee” people often sing along with in the song is actually an elongated “and then.” 

If you try really hard you can kinda hear it, but apparently it doesn’t matter too much to him whether or not you get it right. “Really it’s whatever you want it to be just enjoy the song however you hear it,” the singer tweeted. “I just appreciate you listening.”  Read more…

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