T-Pain
- Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
Faheem Najm was born in Tallahassee, Florida to parents Shasheem Najm
and Aliyah Najm. At the age of ten, Faheem reworked his bedroom into a studio and began composing music. Faheem graduated James S. Rickard's
High School. He was part of the Tallahassee rap group Nappy Headz.
In 2002, he founded his own label, Hard & B. and soon got singer Akon's
attention by doing a remix of Akon's "Locked Up", Akon noticed the song
and signed T-Pain to his newly formed Konvict Music record label.
