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T-Pain debuted an unreleased collaboration with Oliver Tree at Michigan’s Electric Forest festival over the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
“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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Tree died in a helicopter crash over Rio de Janeiro on June 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
T-Pain is helping keep Olive Tree’s memory alive.<\/p>\n
The pioneering rapper, songwriter, and producer debuted an unreleased collaboration with Tree, who died on June 14<\/a> at age 32, at the Electric Forest festival over the weekend.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n T-Pain and Tree recorded the song together in the studio prior to his death, per TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly <\/em>has reached out to representatives for Tree and T-Pain for comment.<\/p>\n The 41-year-old musician born Faheem Rashad Najm shared a heartfelt tribute to Tree<\/a> on the day of his death, which included video from a 2023 meeting they shared.<\/p>\n “Never will forget this lesson from Oliver or the time we had on [Nappy Boy Radio <\/em>podcast<\/a>]. Thanks for sharing your art and for always being different in the best way possible. See you on the brighter side,” he wrote.<\/p>\n 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!”<\/p>\n