He was shooting (the A Milli video) out on the street and then it turned into the bank video. Money's music video depicts a bank heist, but "what a lot of people don't know is that Wayne was shooting two videos at once. It was just what I was seeing girls wear in the club and it kind of wrote itself." Now it's like Uggs and yoga pants and Starbucks cups.
It was a rich white girl's uniform, it was so weird. The song's now-iconic refrain of "Shawty had them Apple Bottom jeans / boots with the fur" was inspired, in part, by "what all the girls were wearing. A lot of them turned into singles for Atlantic artists," including Flo Rida, then an up-and-coming rapper. "He gave me a bunch of beats and I just ran down the list and did a bunch of hooks. Low's hook was one of many that T-Pain wrote during a one-night writing session with Atlantic Records' A&R head Mike Caren. I got to the shoot and (Kanye) was like, 'Do you want to listen?' And I was like, 'No, I've heard it.' He was like, 'No, you're going to want to listen to the song again before we start.' " Even the last part that I sing - 'Is the good life better than the life I live?' - that was one of the hooks, and he just put it at the end of the song and made it a bridge." When it came time to shoot the music video, "it was a completely different song. What ended up happening was, he made a composite of all the hooks that I did and made the hook out of it. He needed something different that was real anthemic and blew his mind right away. T-Pain recorded a number of different hooks for Life, but "it just wasn't sounding right to Kanye. I gained tons of respect for Chris, he was really taking charge of that whole thing." Although Brown had already scored hits such as Yo (Excuse Me Miss) and Say Goodbye prior, "it made me feel like Chris had grown up and was doing his thing." Just watching how they were trying to split everything into two days was pretty funny because it was quite hectic and Chris would not let up on getting what he asked for. "It was a two-day shoot, but I was super lazy at the time, so I only showed up for one day. Kiss' music video shot on Florida International University's University Park campus in Miami. I was like, 'This is a pretty cool, dope song.' That's what really made me like it and then it became my first No. "It got to where I actually liked the song. I didn't like doing that, because that's not really making music to me - that's making hit songs to get some money real quick." The track started simple and sparse, before he started adding harmonies and ad-libs to the verses. That was the first time I had ever done that. What do you say to a girl to get her a drink?' I really went down the list. I was going into the studio consciously like, 'What do people like talking about? They like drinking and they like drinking with girls. "This is the first record where I was trying to make a hit song. I was literally trying to make a bad song but it didn't work."ģ. We're putting this out next week.' " The fact that it became a hit "threw me off. They heard the 'joke' and were like, 'This is the furthest thing from a joke.
I started playing with GarageBand on my Mac and singing, 'I'm in love with a stripper,' and everybody was like, 'Yo, lay that down and we'll give it to (him) as a joke.' Then the label came in and we were going through some songs I had recorded. The next couple days in the studio, everybody was still laughing about it. "We got one girl to dance on him and he was just automatically trying to take her out of the club, pay for her tuition and do everything. Luv was inspired by a night when T-Pain took his friend to a strip club for the first time. It surprised me how fast it happened, but I already knew it was a good song."Ģ. It was kind of surprising once I found out what label money does to a song - just seeing it spread once the label got involved was amazing. It was fairly easy to get that done, because it was about something I am well-versed in: love." Before T-Pain had even signed to Jive Records, "the song was already circulating. "I was experimenting with Auto-Tune at the time and I really got into it. It was the kind of love that makes you write a song about it." The song itself came together quickly. T-Pain's debut single, Sprung, was written for his wife, Amber, whom he married in 2003 and has three children with.