T-Pain is Making a Fortune Playing Video Games

Money problems have plagued T-Pain's otherwise successful career.

At 39, he has figured out a way to pay the bills and some -- and it has nothing to do with music.

Teddy is making a lot of money playing video games on Twitch.

“When you making $50,000, $60,000 an hour playing video games in your drawers, it’s kind of hard to get me to go out the country for, you know what I’m saying?” T-Pain said.

According to T-Pain, he makes some of that money directly from sponsors and the cash is too easy for him to think about wasting his time touring.

"When I get deals like 7-Eleven, they gave me $250k to play any game I wanted for two hours. Just in certain intervals, just say, 'Hey guys, 7-Eleven has pizza now. Don’t you want a pizza from 7-Eleven? Cool, let’s get back to the game for two hours.' Easy money," he said. "If you think I’m about to go pack clothes, go get on a stage for an hour and a half, sweat it out in a state that I don’t know what the f*ck is going on before I stay in that room and just say, '7-Eleven has pizza,' and then go back to gaming?"