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T-Pain debuted an unreleased collaboration with Oliver Tree at Michigan’s Electric Forest festival over the weekend.
“Thanks for sharing your art and for always being different in the best way possible,” T-Pain wrote on social media after Tree’s death.
Tree died in a helicopter crash over Rio de Janeiro on June 14.
T-Pain is helping keep Olive Tree’s memory alive.
The pioneering rapper, songwriter, and producer debuted an unreleased collaboration with Tree, who died on June 14 at age 32, at the Electric Forest festival over the weekend.
Audience footage of T-Pain’s B2B (back-to-back) set with DJ Diesel, the stage name of Shaquille O’Neal, that stretched from late Saturday night through Sunday morning, featured a snippet of the new song. The electronic track starts slow, with Tree crooning out lyrics about chasing your dreams to a somber and stirring beat, slowly crescendoes into a full dance track that the audience of the Michigan-based festival went crazy for.
As the unreleased track played to the audience at Electric Forest, a video montage of Tree played on the giant screen behind O’Neal and T-Pain.
T-Pain and Tree recorded the song together in the studio prior to his death, per TMZ.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Tree and T-Pain for comment.
The 41-year-old musician born Faheem Rashad Najm shared a heartfelt tribute to Tree on the day of his death, which included video from a 2023 meeting they shared.
“Never will forget this lesson from Oliver or the time we had on [Nappy Boy Radio podcast]. Thanks for sharing your art and for always being different in the best way possible. See you on the brighter side,” he wrote.
In the video of their meeting, the pair hug and trade stories, while Tree remarks, “Isn’t it crazy that we’re both DJs now? We’re done with the singing thing!”
Oliver Tree at the 2024 BRIT Awards
Credit: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Tree was among six individuals killed in a helicopter collision above Recreio dos Bandeirantes, a neighborhood of southwest Rio de Janeiro on June 14. There were no survivors from the crash, which rained down on an electric vehicle yard, causing a series of fires. An investigation into the cause of the crash is still underway.
Tree’s famous friends and fans have since publicly mourned the musician, with Natasha Bedingfield commenting on T-Pain’s post that with his death “really hits home to me how what ever I do or say needs to count.”
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Melanie Martinez, who dated Tree from 2019 to 2021, shared her own reminiscence on social media in the days after.
“He was so dedicated to his art which I admired and respected so deeply,” she wrote. “I think everyone who knew him will look back at those moments of laughter and joy he so easily sparked.”
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