T-Pain has confessed to battling depression for two years following a decline in his career, a period which left him friendless save for Chris Brown and Ne-Yo.
“I slept, drank,” said the 28-year-old-rapper, whose given name is Faheem Rasheed Najm, to MTV. “I was depressed for no reason. I don’t know why. It was just weird.”
As a result of his downward turn, there is now “a lot of broken stuff” in his house, he chuckled.
The “Up Down” rapper proudly credits Brown for sticking by him during that time. “I did it for [Brown],” said T-Pain. “I did it for everybody, but, you know, Chris the most, because he was going through so much with all the backlash and stuff he was going through. And I still called him, hit him up, visit him in the studio, checked on him, make sure he was OK, went by his house, just popped up in places that he was.”
“Ne-Yo stayed down,” he recalled about his friend who joined him at every strip club. “Everybody else just kind of fell off and was just like, ‘Aight, well, make a new song and we’ll call ya.’ ”