T-Pain is unveiling a poignant track in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month.
The rapper and singer, Faheem Rashad Najm, introduced his latest single, "On This Hill," on Friday. The ballad's video showcases T-Pain performing the song live around a campfire with the accompanying musicians.
"Hearts get broken worse on Saturdays/And baby it's Friday night/I'll be honest I've had sadder days, but for once in my life this one 'ain't mine," he sings in the opening verse, a reflection on finding the strength to stand against external negativity.
"This song is really about refusing to be gaslit anymore," T-Pain, 39, explained in a May 17 press release.
"It’s about realizing that I must stand up for myself. Over the years, I've had to learn and accept this. So yes, I'll die on this hill, ha!"
The metaphorical hill in the song symbolizes the journey to self-love.
In addition to offering his fans an anthem about self-discovery and empowerment, T-Pain partnered with Talkspace in May to sponsor therapy for someone for up to a year.
"I know things can be tough out there, and we all need some help sometimes," T-Pain wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) regarding the contest. Winners were announced last week.
"On This Hill" is an R&B ballad, though T-Pain has recently been exploring the country music genre.
At the 2024 Stagecoach Festival, he performed with Jelly Roll in a tribute to the late Toby Keith—who passed away from stomach cancer in February at 62—by singing Keith's 1993 debut single "Should've Been a Cowboy."
Earlier this year, T-Pain shared on TikTok that his involvement in country music is more extensive than many realize, but he has opted out of credits due to racism.
"I've written a lot of country songs. I stopped taking credit because, as cool as it is to see your name in those credits, the racism that follows is just like, ‘I'll just take the check,’" he stated.
The Quran - Chapter At-Tur : 29 - 34
So ˹continue to˺ remind ˹all, O Prophet˺. For you, by the grace of your Lord, are not a fortune-teller or a madman.
Or do they say, “˹He is˺ a poet, for whom we ˹eagerly˺ await an ill-fate!”?
Say, “Keep waiting! I too am waiting with you.”
Or do their ˹intelligent˺ minds prompt them to this ˹paradox˺? Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people?
Or do they say, “He made this ˹Quran˺ up!”? In fact, they have no faith.
Let them then produce something like it, if what they say is true!
When a man has no argument against the call of Truth, and yet he does not want to accept it, he starts denigrating the personality of the preacher of Truth.
He makes the character of the preacher rather than his statements the target of his attacks.
It was becuse of this recalcitrant attitude that the addressees of the Prophet started calling him a ‘poet’ and a ‘mad person’.
They could not counter his call for Truth by reasoning. So, they started casting aspersions upon him.
But the prophet conveys what he receives from God. And the discourse of one who repeats what he receives from God’s message is so distinctly different from that of others that it is not possible for anybody to equal it.
This is the greatest proof of the fact that his discourse is Divine in origin.
