Gavin DeGraw Applauds T-Pain’s Cover of His 2003 Hit ‘I Don’t Want to Be’: ‘Love It Man’

T-Pain has a new fan in Gavin DeGraw!

DeGraw, 46, yelled at the producer after releasing a cover of his song “I Don’t Want to Be” as part of a live album and accompanying set titled On Top Of The Covers (Live From The Sun Rose).

After T-Pain, 39, shared a clip of the performance on xformally known on Twitter, DeGraw shared the video on his social media profile and wrote, “Love it man!”

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“I Don’t Want to Be” was released as part of Degraw’s 2003 debut album. Carriage. It also served as the official theme for the hit teen drama One Tree Hillwhich was broadcast from 2003 to 2012.

Other non-Auto-Tune covers on T-Pain’s latest album include Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” and Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me.” T-Pain called the live album a “holiday gift” to his fans.

“For all the people who wanted an album of me singing live, this is my holiday gift to you. For A small desk and Masked singer fans and everyone in between, you haven’t heard anything yet. Thank you all for supporting me on this wild journey.” his post on X read.

T-Pain performs on stage at the 2023 Soul Train Awards on November 19, 2023.

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The live album is followed by the release of the cover album At the top of the headlines in March. In a statement shared by Complex at the time, the musician said it was an album that was “years in the making.”

“It’s been put on hold a little bit, but now that I’m independent, I can do whatever I want through Nappy Boy Entertainment and that’s something I’ve felt strongly about for a long time. These songs are not what you’d expect when you hear T-Pain do cover album and that’s what I think is cool about it,” his statement read

T-Pain previously showed off his natural voice when he competed on the first season of the Fox reality competition series Masked singer in 2019

T-Pain on “The Masked Singer” with host Nick Cannon.

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“I didn’t have the opportunity to enter the game with my natural voice, and many of my peers did and were accepted. It helped me reach my voice,” he said after being named champion.

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