Watch and be amazed by T-Pain singing without Auto-Tune

Hip-hop singer and two-time Grammy winner T-Pain's claim-to-fame is his use of Auto-Tune. But as it turns out, he might sound better without it.

Nervously sitting alongside his buddy and keyboardist Toro at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, the singer belted out a few of his club-bangers without his signature voice-modulation device.

"This is weird as hell for me," he said. "Never done anything like this. Didn't think you guys were gonna be here, but I guess we're doing this..."

After this performance, we're hoping he does so more often.

Watch T-Pain perform "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')," "Up Down" and "Drankin' Patna" below:

Since his rise in the mid-2000s, T-Pain has had a complicated relationship with Auto-Tune. In a soon-to-air NPR interview, he discussed how he first used the device to stand out, before its popularity spread and became all-too taboo.

"People felt like I was using it to sound good," he said in an interview that will air on "All Things Considered." "But I was just using it to sound different."

T-Pain will release his best-of album, T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits, on Tuesday.