Lily Allen explains how T-Pain came to sample her track
Lily Allen has revealed that T-Pain decided to sample her single Who'd Have Known after hearing it when stuck on hold.
The singer, who claims to have retired from music, revealed: "I heard a story that T-Pain first heard my song when he was stuck on hold, when ringing up an Apple store, and that he had no idea who I was or who was singing the song, but after he hung up he went on a mission to find out who recorded the song."
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Lily admits that she was impressed by the end result. She said: "When I first heard the T-Pain track 5 O’clock in the Morning, I was really impressed by how well he interpreted my song Who’d Have Known.
"The ironic thing about this was that I had re-worked Take That’s Shine by writing a brand new lyric to their song – which became Who’d Have Known. So Take That’s original song continues to have legs by being re-written, twice over."
5 O'Clock, which also features a verse from Wiz Khalifa, is the lead single from T-Pain's upcoming album Revolver.
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5 O'Clock is released on 4 December.
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