Drake has thrown some shade in the direction of T-Pain after the singer made some comments about Drizzy and his music industry exit strategy.
In a recent episode of the Crash Dummies podcast, T-Pain said the 6 God inspired him to not overstay his welcome in the music industry — but that Drake has since ignored his own advice.
"One thing I learned from Drake, but one thing he hasn’t followed his own words," T-Pain began (around the 30:35 mark in the video below). "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,'" T-Pain joked. "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.'"
Drake didn't take too kindly to T-Pain's criticism. Hopping in the comments section of a TorontoRappers Instagram post showing a clip from the interview, Drizzy let it be known he wasn't feeling Tallahassee Pain's comments.
"This guy always had resentment for me [laughing emoji]," Drake wrote on Thursday (June 26). "You can hear it every time he speaks on my name."
Offset has also weighed in, showing his support for Drake. "Da Boy is da boy shit ain’t gone change," he wrote in the comments section of a Complex IG post. "All dat hating on another grown man who do more numbers than everybody is Diabolical !!!!"
T-Pain was seemingly referencing a 2023 conversation between Drake and Lil Yachty in which the former revealed he has reached the point in his music career where the thought of "a graceful exit" has crossed his mind.
"Well, I think like on a broader scale, I think I’m at the point now where I just wanna, like — I feel like 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," Drake said at the time.
T-Pain’s approach of sporadically dropping something appears to stem from Drizzy telling Yachty that he would still “work with people or do a show here or there,” instead of stepping away from the music industry for good.
In the same interview with Yachty, Drake explored why rappers end up overstaying their welcome.
"Sometimes it’ll baffle you, like why are these people still making attempts at trying to be present in the space?" he said. "And then you’ll realize they probably, their needs and desires and their soul was probably fed for so long off of being a guy, or the guy, that they can’t let it go."
"So I guess what’s left for me is just to find a way to gracefully — I’m not ready now — but to gracefully continue making projects that are extremely, like, interesting and hopefully cherished by people," Drake continued. "And then to find the right time to say like, 'I can’t wait to see what the next generation does.'"