T-Pain's unreleased song with Oliver Tree gets playtime, with a little help from Shaq

Oliver Tree’s euphony and representation lived connected astatine the Electric Forest festival implicit the weekend, wherever T-Pain and Shaquille O’Neal teased what is apt the precocious singer’s last project.

Grammy victor T-Pain and the erstwhile NBA subordinate (performing arsenic DJ Diesel) paid tribute to Tree during their acceptable connected the 2nd nighttime of the three-day Michigan euphony fest. According to video shared connected societal media, the performers played unreleased audio of Tree singing astir slowing down and projected the Santa Cruz native’s euphony videos onto the screens down them.

“It’s clip to observe life, baby,” T-Pain tin beryllium heard saying earlier the opus played.

Oliver Tree Nickell, known for viral songs “Life Goes On” and “Miss You,” died June 14 erstwhile 2 helicopters collided successful Brazil. He was 1 of the six radical who were killed successful the collision. He was 32.

As quality of Tree’s decease circulated, galore euphony stars paid tribute, including “Buy U a Drank” hitmaker T-Pain, who shared that helium and Tree had connected earlier the singer’s abrupt death. T-Pain posted videos of Tree’s quality connected his “Nappy Boy Radio” podcast and a snippet of the 2 of them jamming successful the studio, moving connected the aforesaid opus that Electric Forest attendees heard implicit the weekend.

“It sounds similar f— magic, man, that is the Oliver Tree sound,” Tree tells T-Pain successful the video, which aboriginal shows the collaborators nodding their heads to the beat.

T-Pain said successful his Instagram caption: “Thanks for sharing your creation and for ever being antithetic successful the champion mode possible. See you connected the brighter side.”

Beyond T-Pain and DJ Diesel’s acceptable astatine Electric Forest, celebrations of Tree’s beingness volition proceed Monday successful Los Angeles. Fans tin stitchery Monday evening astatine the Venice Skatepark to commemorate what would person been the singer’s 33rd birthday, according to an lawsuit announcement shared connected Tree’s Instagram story. The lawsuit advertises “free vessel cuts” and a constricted proviso of sunglasses — a motion to Tree’s chiseled look — and is slated to tally from 5 to 8 p.m.

Times unit writers Tony Briscoe and August Brown contributed to this report.