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Drake and T-Pain

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Key Takeaways:

• T-Pain criticized Drake for not following via on his personal “graceful exit” plan from Hip Hop.
• Drake responded by accusing T-Pain of long-standing resentment.
• Their change provides gas to the continued debate about how and when artists ought to step away from rap.

Drake has a number of phrases for T-Pain after he recommended the “God’s Plan” artist wasn’t taking his personal recommendation about gracefully exiting the music business.

On the “Crash Dummies Podcast” final Wednesday (June 18), the Florida rapper recalled, “One thing I learned from Drake, but one thing he hasn’t followed, [is] his own words. Drake said, ‘I wanna be one of them people that gracefully bow out and not get kicked out.’”

“I have ever since said, ‘Thank y’all, I appreciate y’all. I’ll see y’all when I drop. Don’t worry about it, I’ll just drop something. Let me know if you heard it,’” he continued. “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 concluded, “He’s the person that he said he didn’t want to be.” On Thursday (June 26), Drake responded within the feedback part of TorontoRappers’ repost: “This guy always had resentment for me. You can hear it every time he speaks on my name.”

To add context, T-Pain’s current look on the “Crash Dummies Podcast” wasn’t the primary time he is introduced up Drake. Previously, the “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” artist claimed that February’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U was basically a set of Drizzy throwaways that PARTYNEXTDOOR added verses to. “Or the other way around,” he hypothesized. “Or [PND] came in with an album, and was like, ‘Hey Drake, can you put verses on these particular songs?’”

“I’m not saying that they’re bad. These are just songs that didn’t make albums,” he recommended throughout a livestream.

The recommendation T-Pain referenced on the “Crash Dummies Podcast” initially got here from Drake’s “A Moody Conversation” interview with Lil Yachty in 2023. At the time, the Views artist stated, “Maybe we talked about this the other day, but I feel like I’m kind of introducing the concept in my mind of a graceful exit.”