T-Pain
“Let Your Hair Down” (f/ The-Dream, Vantrease)
The Iron Way (out now)
Fresh off a mammoth 42-song set at The FADER Fort, T-Pain continues his renaissance with a new mixtape, The Iron Way. A glittering return to form, The Iron Way picks up where his 2014 singles left off, most notably on this exquisite collaboration with the Patron Saint of Thunder Penguin, The-Dream. Any superlatives I lob at “Let Your Hair Down” would underplay how much I’m feeling the languid shuffle of this neon slow jam. But, I guess that’s what happens when you get two of the best songwriters of their generation in the same room…