Drake has responded to T-Pain after the “Buy U a Drank” rapper suggested he should step back from the music industry.
The exchange started when T-Pain made comments about Drake on the Crash Dummies podcast.
T-Pain’s Original Comments
T-Pain said Drake once told him about wanting to “gracefully bow out” of music instead of getting “kicked out.” But T-Pain claims Drake isn’t following his own advice.
“Drake said, ‘I wanna be one of them people that gracefully bow out and not get kicked out,'” T-Pain explained on the podcast.
T-Pain said he took that advice to heart. He now tells fans “Thank y’all, I appreciate y’all” and drops music without demanding attention.
But Drake takes a different approach, according to T-Pain.
“Drake is like, ‘No, listen. OK, I got another one. Hold on, check this out. Y’all ain’t like that one? OK, real quick, just one more. Let me try one more,'” T-Pain said.
Drake’s Response
Drake saw the comments and fired back on Instagram.
“This guy always had resentment for me,” Drake wrote with a laughing emoji. “You can hear it every time he speaks on my name.”
Album Criticism
T-Pain also criticized Drake’s recent collaboration with PartyNextDoor. The album “omeomeexy $ongs 4 U” contains leftover songs, according to T-Pain.
He suggested Drake gave PartyNextDoor unused tracks from previous projects.
“I feel like [Drake] recorded a bunch of songs [and] in order to keep PARTY around, [he said], ‘You can take 10, 15 of these songs, put a verse on them and that’s our album,'” T-Pain said.
T-Pain believes five to seven solo Drake songs on the album didn’t make it onto other projects.
“I’m not saying that they’re bad. These are just songs that didn’t make albums,” he explained.
Previous Neutral Stance
T-Pain had stayed neutral during Drake’s recent feud with Kendrick Lamar.
“Drake or Kendrick? I choose to mind my business. It ain’t got nothing to do with me,” T-Pain said previously.
But his recent podcast comments show he’s willing to share his opinions about Drake’s career choices.
The exchange adds another layer to Drake’s ongoing tensions with fellow artists in the hip-hop community.
