T-Pain just dropped some hard truths about why he sold his entire music catalog for a rumored $100 million, and it’s a brutal wake-up call for anyone who thinks the music industry is still playing fair. The music industry, he says, never gave artists a choice about how their work would be valued in the streaming era. “When streaming started, nobody told us, or nobody came to any artist and said, ‘Hey, we’re about to put your s— on streaming platforms. T-Pain isn’t just venting about the numbersHe’s pointing out a fundamental betrayal: the industry unilaterally decided how much his life’s work was worth, without so much as a conversation. “I’m not leaving my kids’ future in the hands of the music industry at f—in’ all,” he said.