1UP is the sixth studio album by American R&B singer T-Pain, released on February 27, 2019. It is the follow-up to his 2017 album Oblivion and was called a surprise release, as T-Pain had not announced a release date prior (although its release date coincided with the season finale of The Masked Singer, where T-Pain was revealed as the champion).[4][5][6]1UP was preceded by the release of the singles "Getcha Roll On", "All I Want" and "A Million Times"[7] and features appearances from Lil Wayne, Boosie Badazz, O.T. Genasis, Russ, Profit Dinero, Tory Lanez and Flipp Dinero.[8]
Background
T-Pain named the album for his love of gaming and the name for an extra life in video games, saying on Beats 1: "I'm an avid gamer. I've been a gamer pretty much all my life. So I'm starting to implement gaming into my music and to my themes and stuff like that."[9]Spin said the album features T-Pain's "customarily lascivious crooning and rapping across 12 tracks".[7]