Drink Champs - #Throwback Episode - w/ T-Pain | (Ep. 273)

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this classic episode we chop it up with the legendary, T-Pain. T-Pain drops gems as he gets real about his journey in the game, from breaking barriers with Auto-Tune to facing backlash in the industry. He opens up about the struggles, the hits, and how a convo with Usher shook him. It’s not just about the music—it’s about resilience, evolution, and staying true to yourself. Hear how T-Pain turned pain into power, proving the doubters wrong and rewriting the rules of the game. Whether you’re a fan or hustling for your own come-up, this one’s all about inspiration, truth, and owning your legacy. Make some noise for T-Pain!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 *Originally published on August 6th, 2021* *Subscribe to Patreon NOW for exclusive content, discount codes, M&G’s + more: 🏆* https://www.patreon.com/drinkchamps *Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com Follow Drink Champs: https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps https://www.youtube.com/drinkchamps DJ EFN https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions N.O.R.E. https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've counted them. He's got the data. He has really changed the face of music. He's an innovator, a motivator. He's one of the best personalities in the music business, period. Wow. I could watch him just talk. I could watch him just, he's just a natural entertainer. He walked in the spot just now and picked me court.

Like, I've never had this happen to me before. He was ready. He was ready. Ever. So in case y'all don't know what the fuck we talking about, we talking about the back rivers to the Impeccable Team. Motherfucking Payne. Tallahassee Pay Pain in the building.

New Chain Pain. Yeah, yeah. Rolling Loud, I assume that's what that sounds like. This is my first Rolling Loud. I had to celebrate. You performed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, how was it?

I had the best set. Not the best set? I had the best set. Oh, you had the best set. Oh, yeah. Make some noise for the best set. Yeah! That's one of my main questions I was going to ask you.

Do you still love performing? That's my favorite thing of this whole... More than making music? It's in a tie with making other people's vision come to life and performing. That's like my favorite shit. Like to see somebody like... It's like commissioning a painting. You know what I'm saying? And actually have it actually have somebody's like, that's like my favorite shit. Like to see somebody like, it's like commissioning a painting. Wow.

You know what I'm saying? And actually have it, actually have somebody come like, wow, that's exactly how I thought that was going to look. And then, performing.

It's neck and neck for me. That's my favorite part. And you got some major, major records. So you don't, the crowd can literally be your hype man. Yeah,

I didn't have to do a lot of singing last night. I ain't been on stage in like a year and a half. Yeah, I can't have to do a lot of singing last night. I ain't been on stage in like a year and a half. I can see it in your face that you're saying that. I can see you missing it. I missed it, man. I ain't been on stage in like a year and some change.

I didn't know what being tired was until last night because that cardio on that motherfucking stage was a different beast, and I was not prepared. But I got tired like halfway through, but, you know. Right. I'm also 36.

It's not good. Goddamn, make some noise for that. Goddamn. You got that? I'm not even laughing. I'm not laughing. I shouldn't even clap for that. That's not fair.

He didn't get to the kill him? He didn't get to the kill him? Yeah, what happened here, bro? I was right here. Oh, okay, okay. I was standing there, and I didn't know we couldn't have it on video. Also, can we get my wife a chair? Oh!

Can we get her a chair? Is there an extra chair somewhere? Sonny, give her a chair. Sonny, get up and give her a chair, bro. You're asking other people. You're supposed to get up your chair, bro. Sonny McDowell, is this a chair? What a foul guy. What a foul guy.

His age hair is nicer. Yo, shiver is dead, for real. It's over, bro. Jesus. He's looking around like that. These niggas is whack, bro. I'm not even sure. So, one of the stories I wanted to get to Immediately was The Usher Raymond story

Right Okay Yep Because I I started to look more Further into it And y'all said He was your friend

Oh he still is Oh okay He still is After this shit Yeah No I never lost love for Usher Like that was never a thing

He just made me think about shit A little harder And kind of fucked up My way of So what was his exact words? He said, you fucked up music? I didn't change any word he said. That nigga said, you fucked up music for real singers.

Really? And he was dead serious? Dead serious. Like, he wasn't being sarcastic, joking with you? That nigga said, you fucked up music for real singers. And I thought he was joking, and I laughed, and he was like, nah, for real. I was like, oh, okay. What were you supposed to respond to that when he tells you?

What was he expecting you to say? I'm sorry. So for lack of a better term, right, how did you discover Auto-Tune? Because I'm going to be honest with you. What's the guy's name? Roger Chapman. Roger Chapman. He used it in a totally different way.

He was in the first way. That was TalkBox. That's a completely different thing. That's a completely different thing. He used TalkBox. So that was like, wasn't the first one. That was TalkBox. That's a completely different thing. That's a completely different thing. He used TalkBox. So that was like, you got to learn how to fucking play keys. And you know, you got to play the shit. That's the analog version.

What are you celebrating? Hey, man, you. We celebrating you, motherfucker. Team motherfucking engagement, baby. Come on. So how did you get, so what was it? In the studio? No, it was a fucking commercial.

It was a goddamn commercial. Dark Child used it on a Jennifer Lopez remix. Producer Dark Child. Yeah, producer Dark Child used it on a Jennifer Lopez remix, and I heard it for like two seconds. I was like, I got to find out what that is, because I want to use it on a whole song. Right.

You know what's funny? That's how I got introduced, told about Auto-Tune was Jennifer Lopez. Somebody said that they, I was in an engineer, I was with an engineer, and he told me, he said, listen, this is what I got to do for Jennifer Lopez vocals. So I didn't know, I thought it was just some singing shit. Now, you, like, you took it, and now everybody, like. I took it and used it how it wasn't supposed to be used. Well, you said you heard the Cher record.

Was that, that's after? I didn't hear the Cher. Oh, you didn't? No, I hadn't heard the Cher record up until that point. Oh, wow. Once I found it, then people started saying, you know, Cher did this. And then I heard Kanye use it, like, before my shit came out. I used it before Kanye, but Kanye's use of it came out before mine.

Right, right. So it was a ton of people who had used it, and nobody was able to influence a generation. You know what I'm saying? So it was highly sought after. Well, everybody was using it. Nobody was using it. But just not at the level that you used it. Exactly.

Right. And even the people that did, like Kanye did it on a bunch of interludes on College Dropout. And I heard that. I'm like, oh, that's the shit I be using. And then it still wasn't able to influence a generation until I got involved with 808s and Heartbreaks. And then now everybody's like, oh, I got it from Kanye. Is performing auto-tune harder? Huh?

Do you perform in auto-tune? Oh, no. I'll never use auto-tune live. The thing about auto-tune, it only can process one voice at a time. Wow. So if you're performing with it and you're singing but also 20,000 people are also singing,

it goes to different, it fucks up your auto-tune. Oh, because it's going to auto-tune everything. It's trying to auto-tune 20,000 voices at one time. But auto-tune is only able to do one at a time. So I never use it live. I make sure I do everything I do live is auto-tune free. Because it just sounds fucking stupid. All right.

And it was, oh boy, that's, that was three days of that. Wow. Rolling loud. Wow. Just all, performing with all the time.

Just everybody. So. Three days of that sound. And it was just, I don't, I don't know how motherfuckers can listen to that. That was crazy.

Do you, do you realize how big All I Do Is Win record is? So, so we, we, we started calling it the confetti song. The parade song? Oh, the confetti?

The confetti song. I thought you said confederate. I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? We are in the South. What are you doing with this? No, we call it the confetti song because you only play it when confetti is happening. It's that big to where it's like the end of every sports event, the end of every fucking thing.

People are changing the words to fit their narrative. It's just, yeah, I know how big it is. The publishing check confetti, I must say. Oh, just confetti. Just confetti. Now I'm just ripping them up for fun. Is this something that Khaled said to you? He said, I want to do this.

Yeah, he was like, I'm tired of losing. I'm tired of losing. I refuse to lose. All I want to do is win. And I'm like, cool. You just wrote the song. Get out. I went straight in.

I went straight in, but I did the ad-libs first. Okay. And he didn't understand what I was doing. So you did it in reverse? I did it in reverse. Oh, you were one of those guys. I learned it from Busta Rhymes. Okay.

I learn it all the time. It's fucking weird. Yeah. So I learned it from Busta Rhymes. I did the ad-libs first to set the tone for the top line. All right. Khaled was like, I don't like this. We gotta pick another beat.

I'm like, dude, you gotta get the fuck out of here for a second. If you would just accommodate me and leave, nigga. So he left, and when he came back, it was the biggest song.

Wow. You know what I'm saying? It's like, correct me if I'm wrong. You will. Go ahead. It's the biggest one. It's the biggest one. It's the biggest one.

Thank you. I'm still, I just, how many of those do we have? Can we get more of those? What? So I can take home the. Oh, the fruits? We'll mail you. We'll give you whatever the fuck you need.

You want everything? I just want to do that for everything. You're just making me want to do that. We'll give you whatever the fuck you need. So, Asha says this, right? Mm-hmm. And I think you said you went into depression, but you didn't go into depression because of that.

That was just a straw that broke the camel's back. Uh-huh. That was just it. I was going through so much shit already, you know, from the initial hate of Auto-Tune. You know what I'm saying? Just from everybody. But it was like, I can handle

Twitter and Instagram and shit like that. I can deal with that. And at that time, I was like, what, you can do 15 second videos? Def of Auto-Tune. I'm chilling. Def of Auto-Tune. Like, I can deal with that. Like, I don't even know Jay-Z. Like, I can deal with that shit, but... Did he perform it

in front of you or something like that? At Summer Jam? No, wasn't it at an award show? We're going to get to it. We're going to get to it. Okay, okay. So, all that shit was fine. But I actually, like, you talking about somebody like Usher that I sat in my bedroom writing down lyrics to his songs. Oh, I thought you were saying you and him sat in your bedroom.

I was like, where are you going? Jesus Christ. A different show. It's a different show. Nah, but like, I'm sitting, like, as a kid, I'm sitting in my bed writing down lyrics to his songs

so I can learn his songs. Confessing his songs. I'm writing down fucking my way. Like, you know what I'm saying? She likes it my way. Right. What I say. I'm screaming in my room.

I'm like, singing this nigga's songs and then that person that I respect so much tells me that I fucked up everything. And the weird part about it, you said you went to the back of the plane. No, it was first class, you know the little

cut where the flight attendant they called me back there. to have that, like, you know, you know that one person in the clique that's always apologizing for something?

Right. Like, it's all my bad, bro. I'm sorry. That's me. That's because somebody he truly respected told him to stop doing something that he actually liked doing.

Right. And that's how that felt. Right. So, you know what I'm saying? I can deal with Twitter and people I don't even fucking know and shit like that,

but somebody I truly respect Right. coming to know what I'm saying? I could deal with Twitter and people I don't even fucking know and shit like that But but somebody I truly respect Coming to me and saying that that's fucking tore me down and he didn't really explain it He just said oh no bro. I called Mark Pitts after that. Oh, I call Mark Pitts when I got off the plane I'm like bro. Yeah boy He's like, oh man. He just be saying At the time like dog your boy, he's like, oh yeah, he just be saying shit. Oh, that's like Mark Pinch's manager. Right, Mark Pinch's manager at the time. Because I'm trying to figure out why, yeah. Mark Pinch's manager at the time, like, dog, you're a boy. And he's like, oh, yeah,

he'd just be saying shit. And I'm like, that doesn't explain it. That doesn't fucking... That doesn't help me at all. I'm just trying to picture you when he tells you that, though. Do you just walk away with your head down? Like, what do you say right after he says that? Nothing.

I'm going to tell you a quick story. Absolutely fucking nothing. And I'm going to tell you, I want you to tell me if you're one of these type of people. If I think a person don't like me, I immediately don't like them. Is that petty?

No. Okay, okay. But I'm the kind of person that if I find out somebody don't fuck with me, I try to figure out what I did. Oh, no. I'm not fucking with you. You blame yourself.

I try to because I've been gaslit so much in my fucking career by managers and labels and shit. I automatically think everything that's happening to me is because of me. You know what I'm saying? I automatically think that. So in your head, after Usher says this,

you're saying, you know what? He might be right. He might be right. Because this is... You gotta think, I've seen this man work. He's got a perfect pitch. He's got this man never respect him someone never need auto-tune Like he never needed this nigga in my house like the next Michael Jackson my eyes This nigga is the best musician of all time if he said it is like Herbie Hancock telling me I hit a wrong note, bro I did obviously

Me I would immediately say I'm throwing confessions away. I would immediately... I think you would have punched him in the face. I'm the opposite. Now I'm in my hotel room. I'm like... I'm completely the opposite, bro. I'm like, I'm fucked with this thing. It might be right. Okay, so now,

so now, that's where all the two comes out. Right. He's not dissing you. You, okay, he knew what he was doing. All right.

It's not like he didn't know what he was doing. Because I don't think he, when the niggas say something is whack, it's whack. He said, what did he say?

Too many T-pain. He said, you're T-painting too much. Right. But that's actually bigging you up. In the second verse. You're the originator. You're saying everything else.

In the second verse. Okay. Nigga, I started out as, I was DJ Payne before I was T-Pain. All right. Nobody makes it to the second verse. Oh, shit. Okay. Nigga, yeah.

Tell me a song that Drake got on where he goes second. He knows this. This man knows this. Nobody makes it to the second verse. So where are you at when you actually hear? I'm at home. I assume someone's calling you? No, nigga.

It's all over the internet. It's everywhere. Anybody have to call me? I mean, people were calling, but I'm just picking up the phone. I seen it. I heard it. Anybody has to call me. I mean, people were calling, but I'm just picking up the phone. I seen it. I heard it. Stop.

Right, just fucking, I seen it, bro. So when did you hear it? What do you immediately think? You think he's dissing you or you think? Of course. Oh, really? Of course. I didn't even think that.

He can't, a wise man once said, you can't knock the hustle. But that's like, I'm the face of this. Just like Lil Yachty was the face of mumble rap. Anytime somebody talked about mumble rap, Lil Yachty was the first person to come up. Right. I was the face of auto-tune. Anytime somebody said auto-tune, I'm the face. Right.

So when you say auto-tune is whack, I'm the face. Right. If I would have said fucking Blue Yankees are terrible, everybody would be like, oh, you just a Jay-Z now? Yeah. No, I'm just saying. I'm not from New York, nigga. I don't wear Blue Yankees.

If someone says, yo, y'all podcast motherfuckers, we're going to take it personal. Right. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You know, probably doing a podcast. I'm not doing a podcast. We're having a hard shit.

What I took the Jay-Z, because I thought he was kind of bigging you up like, yo, y'all taking his shit. Like his T-Pain is the first. That's his shit. That's how I took it. I'm not I'm not you. So I can't. The second verse. You've got to get part of that.

I never peeped. As a DJ, I can concur. You know how far down the sails of Molly went with that nigga said, I never peeped that. As a DJ, I can concur. You know how far down the sales of Molly went when that nigga said I own Pop Molly? Really? Yo,

bro, anytime this nigga say something is whack, it's trash. Everybody like, nigga, I don't fuck with that shit no more.

I'm not, I'm not gonna lie to you. You heard what Hope said, nigga? He shouted me out on a song once. He said, I tried to hit big

and some cuts from Nori and I kid you not, my rate went through the roof. I didn't know. I was like, fuck, what the fuck? He just bigged me up. I was dope yesterday. But he bigs me up now. What the hell?

No, I mean, his word is like, I mean, it's ho, bro. So let me ask you. As an artist, you think this is a shot being taken at you? You got to keep in mind, this is after Usher. Right. So it's like, fuck! But Usher's in public, though. Jesus!

Usher's in public. Right, so I'm already feeling it, and then the fucking hoes, god damn it! Did you go pick up the pen and say, do I answer back? I did. You did? I did. It was going to be the intro of my next album. You did a diss record to James?

Yeah, it was crazy. Like, what the fuck? What the fuck, you can rap now, nigga? What the fuck is this? Nah, but I was, I was also drunk, so that didn't happen.

So I was real into myself at the time. But nah, I didn't, like, while I was in it. Who was the name of the diss record to James? I don't even know. I can't even fucking remember.

Okay, all right. Like, I was, like, really drunk. Like, I was, like, really drunk. Like, it was, like, the end. I was, like, I was, like, ready to go. I was ready to be done. I was, like, if I'm going to go out. Done with the business? I was done with life, nigga.

I was, like, no, I was really suicidal for real. Really? You were just Beyonce in there. No, no. All right, cool. She didn't have nothing to do with it. So you had nothing to lose in your mind at this point. I was like, good.

I was good. Like, what the fuck am I doing this for? Like, I'm good. If I'm going to go out, I'm going to go out. Super drunk. I'm going to just drink myself to death. Hopefully my heart rate goes up fast enough and I can just stop. So your engineer is somewhere sitting on this record, somewhere in the world.

Yeah. I know I did it in Vegas. I know I was in Vegas at the time because I made the record after I did a show in Vegas and everybody in the crowd was like, Jay-Z killed you, bro. Oh my God. I was like, all right, I'm never doing shows again, so. That's it.

I could imagine. Like, it was the worst. And it's all like bros, it's all, you know, white boys with their shirts off and shit. J.D., you're just a rock, bro. Fuck you, bro. And I'm like, my dude. I'm up there, like, playing the piano.

I'm like. Anything but auto-tune. No auto-tune at all. The whole time, I'm playing the piano and singing. I'm like, all right, y'all got it. Fuck you niggas, I'm out. And then I ended the show early. And then I just went and drank myself, tried to drink myself to death, and I was just like, I'm done.

I thought Hennessy was involved. Was Hennessy involved? It was a lot of Hennessy. It was all Hennessy. What a bad rap for Hennessy right now. Straight room temperature Hennessy. Room temperature. Damn. Yeah, I was straight out the bottle. I was just like, man, I'ma just go. Like, The next day, my managers was like,

do you remember saying fuck Jay-Z on stage yesterday? And I was like, no, I didn't. He's like, cool, here's a video. And here's it in auto-tune. Somebody remixed it. But no, man, I was just ready to go, man. And I went in the studio, and I started recording the record. And my managers were like, I think we just need to take a break.

You're on a lot of records. That's just going to last. People are doing promo for you. You're not going to be missed. And then we were supposed to take a break for like two months, and I took a break for like four years. Wow. You know what? Sorry to change the subject a little bit but a lot of times you said something that was that they won't miss you the fans have to actually miss you like a lot

of times when artists when artists is over you know over you know on on all the thing yeah on you on the radio you want to they don the radio. They don't miss you. They don't appreciate you. Me doing shows overseas, I always felt better because they only got to see me once a year as opposed to doing it in Brooklyn where motherfuckers

are just so used to you. Like, fuck you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That is a... That's probably the most Brooklyn thing I've heard.

That shit's real normal. They're like, yo, I saw Jay-Z walking down the street. Shit was crazy. So, so if this record was to ever see

the light of day? I don't even think I finished it. Because my manager came in the booth while I was doing it. In the booth, yeah. And I was like,

let's just stop. Good manager with a trashed ass shirt. Let's just stop. Let's just, all right, now you're doing too much. And I'm like,

you gotta know what the fuck I'm doing. And he's like, okay, now you got to go home. What year was that record, The Death of Auto-Tune? Anybody remember? Engineer. You started doing records, though, without Auto-Tune, though, right? No?

Because I swore. Look, this is the thing. Remember we got a record from him? Uh-huh. I could have sworn that you sent us a record for him that didn't have autotune on it. That was probably an engineer's fault then. Because I was like, yo, you're silly. It wasn't me.

I didn't do it. Maybe I turned it down. It was around no reality time. Okay, yeah. 2009. 2009? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So did you ever meet Jay after this?

Oh, a ton of times. Okay, after Depp Auto-Tune? a ton of times. Okay, after Deaf and Hard of Hearing? A ton of times. Okay, all right. So, he was... I love how he laughs at himself. I'm so fucking awkward, bro. No, I love it, I love it.

I love it. I love it. No, you're normal. I love it. So, I saw him and B at a Grammy after party. I love the floss. I love the floss. See, I just put that together.

Him and B at the Grammy after party. You want me to Grammy some more. I saw him at the Grammy after party. I had two cups of Hennessy, so I couldn't shake his hand. Hennessy ain't going nowhere, huh? Oh, it didn't. It didn't leave. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Come on. Come on. You didn't shake the man's hand? I couldn't. I had two hand. Hennessy ain't going nowhere, huh? Oh, it didn't. It didn't leave. Wait a minute. Tell me. Tell me. You didn't shake the man's hand? I couldn't. I had two cups of Hennessy. His hand is more important than the Hennessy. You could have put it down. You could have put it down.

There's no tables. There's literally nowhere. I had to put it on the ground. It would have been weird. You could have did it like this. But they were really fucking. You could have did it like this. No, no.

They were. And it's not cold. So you can't just fish pump them. They were very full. Okay. So I would have had my finger in the hole of one of them. So two cups of Hennessy. This shit is so stupid.

And I was thinking of what to say. I wanted to say two things, and they collided. I wanted to say, thank you for everything, but also, sorry for the confusion. And I fucking said, sorry for everything. Fuck. He must have been like, huh? The nigga, bro, he knew I couldn't shake his hand.

And the nigga hit me with one of the, it's all good, bro. Oh. Little man. Little man. He's going to look at us. On your head? Damn it. Wait, wait. On your head?

On my head, bro. Yeah, that was a little nigga shaking his head. It's all good, bro. It's all good, little man. Ah! What? Why? Oh, bro. It's all good, little man. What? Why? And then I tried to, oh, God damn.

I tried to comfort myself a little bit by doing the elbow to B. She hit the elbow. The fucking Hennessy dropped on her white dress. Oh, my God. This is getting worse. I was like, you know what? I'm going to go find the closest gun. I'm going to just go ahead and just find the closest gun.

This has been great. I appreciate y'all being here. I'm going to just go ahead and end it. I'm going to go ahead and end it now. I'm just going to go find security. Just come on, man. Kick me out, bro. Somebody come take these.

He kicked us out of my house. I can't stand this shit. I don't know how to do it. Somebody kick me out of this motherfucker, please. Bro, she hit my elbow in the shit like long-ass white dress, too. Like one of the ones somebody's supposed to carry behind you and shit. Yeah, it was. I did not do

good that day. You just warmed it in front of you one day or Summer Jam or something like that? So, I hit two people that were supposedly connected to Jay-Z at Summer Jam.

They told me he was triple booked and he wasn't going to be there. Okay. Because I was calling to say when Jay performs the song, I want to support it. That's fire. I want to go out and support the shit.

Yeah, that would have been dope. They said he's triple booked. He's not even going to be at Summer Jam. Right. That nigga shows up at Summer Jam. Mm-hmm.

And I'm like, okay. Cool way to fucking do that, I i wish i had i wish my managers fucking live for me um so he comes out on jeezy set and then he does a bunch of songs and uh i'm like shit i want to go i want to i go. I still want to support the song. Because by this time, I had heard the second verse, and UT painted too much, and I'm like, oh, okay, cool. I'm going to go out. Keep in mind, Jay-Z is always surrounded with a pack of Muslims.

I can say that because I'm Muslim. Okay. A pack of Muslims. He's surrounded by Fruit of Islam all the time. FY. Niggas in suits. Boom. Ebro comes up

and I say, Ebro, bro, he's about to do the song I Gotta Go Out There. He said, Ebro says, T-Pain's coming make a hole.

FY. Bam. Boom. They back up. You can't just get on Jay-Z's stage without, like, it's Jay-Z, my nigga. You can't just get on Jay-Z's stage without, like, it's Jay-Z,

my nigga. You can't just get up there. They make a hole. I go on stage. I'm with him the whole time he's performing the joint. And at the end, I'm like, this is going to be cool as shit because I'm going to shake his hand. And then it's going to show everybody. It's like, it's going to be,

we're going to squash it right here in front of everybody, right? He looks at my hands like, good riddance. And then he just fucking walks off. I'm like, God damn it. Is this worse? I thought you were going to say you had two cups of Hennessy. We made it worse.

We made it worse. We didn't say good riddance, though. He definitely said, bro, you can. He said good riddance?. He definitely said, bro, you can. He said good riddance? It's Summer Jam. It's on video. He said good riddance and then walks off. Oh, he walks off.

He walked off. Not good riddance and points at you and goes like this. No, I'm sitting there with my hand out. Oh. He looks at my hand and says good riddance. Is this after the party? Is this after the Grammy party or this is before the? This is before the Grammy party. OK. So you didn't spill the Hennessy on B's dress?

No. OK. Not quite yet. But no, he looks at my hands and goes, good riddance. But he had shades on. I'm not sure he had his eyes open. I don't know. No, he probably didn't see your hand.

He wouldn't see it. I was the only other nigga on stage. I don't know how to. He might not be looking down. Maybe he's looking up. He was looking right at me. Come on, man. Help on stage. I don't know how to... You might not be looking down. Maybe he's looking up. He's looking right at me. Come on, man. Help me out.

I'm not. You had to press it. I'm not. I was the fucking... I was the corniest nigga alive for like six seconds. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, man.

Some fucking dumb stories, too. Some dumb ass stories, man. Oh, my God. I wasn't ready. You know what People always say Like T-Pain has a way Of making you feel bad for him

But I'm like bro Y'all just don't know The background of these Fucking stories This shit sucks This shit really fucking sucks And I don't I legit

Never try to You know Instigate anything Or put these stories out Like oh, oh, this is going to be good for our podcast or anything like that. These is real shit. You know what I'm saying? I'm just fucking transparent because the image

people have in their head of me don't really mean a lot of shit to me. You know what I'm saying? I've learned how to fucking move past what people think of me. You know what I'm saying? So it's easier to tell these stories when you know you don't give a shit of the outcome. Right.

You know what I'm saying? It's just so much easier. It's also better when you're drunk. So this is it. Yeah. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network.

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And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. This has been great. Now, recently you was viral, viral, viral for something that you said that you're standing for. Let's stand on creativity. Right. One day, if I was named Nori,

you couldn't even be called Corey. Because it was... Our name, yeah. All right, my bad. So, what I'm trying to say is... So, my favorite rapper is... One of my favorite rappers is Granddaddy RU. If you listen to my stuff, you can my favorite rapper is, one of my favorite rappers is Granddaddy RU.

If you listen to my stuff, you can't tell that I love Granddaddy RU because I purposely wanted to be different from them. You have to. You said something

that was crazy. You said, we got two babies already. You said, they already doing it. And I think your message was absolutely correct.

But a lot of people don't know, don't know you, don't know, so that you were yelling. So when they was yelling, they took it as like you were hating. Yeah. Well, also because I'm older than 25. Okay, cool. So that helps a lot. That helps a lot to say I'm hating. thing that like you said in our day but if you remotely yep sounded acted remotely anything similar to another artist you're immediately canceled you

can do nothing like bro like you can't I thought you couldn't you couldn't do that when we're when we were doing our shit. You had to come with something different. Originally. Originally. The labels were looking for different shit. The labels were looking for Andre 3000. Until they weren't.

Until they weren't. Until like, how do we... No, the labels is lazy now. The labels actually... No, but I didn't know. I'm going back then. The labels let you get hot. Do you know...

Okay. No, but I didn't know. I'm going back then. Labels let you get hot. Do you know labels made $17 billion last year? I believe so, yeah. You know how much artists made of that? No. 12%. Yeah. Wow. 12 fucking percent.

Wow. All artists. I don't know if you've been on the Discovery page or Spotify lately. It's a lot of fucking artists right now. There's more artists than chairs in the world right now.

Niggas ain't got no way. I had to ask for a chair for my wife. It's fucking crazy. He's an artist. Sonny's an artist. It's crazy. He's an artist. Sonny's an artist. It's crazy. But we outnumber these motherfuckers,

and it's easier than ever to be your own label now. And niggas is still choosing to spend somebody else's money because it's just hard to spend your own money. Nobody wants it. Plus, the labels are in the mix with the streaming shit too. All of it. You're independent. You think you're independent

but there's ways to get around that. Niggas is lazy. Look, K just sent bicks for you right now. Look, look, look. I didn't do nothing. I just want to redact. I want to redact a couple statements. I just want to redact a couple things.

He must seriously show the hope. God damn it. How the hell did y'all niggas... But let's get back to the originality because why did people take your message the wrong way? Like, why... why, why? You said the most perfect thing.

Because it makes them not a part of the crowd anymore. The thing that, the thing that made everybody come together and be like, okay, this is cool is because motherfuckers

was like, It worked. I'm not, I'm not bad at what I do. You just don't understand it. And if you don't understand it, you're old and you're hating. And everybody wants to be like,

well, I'm not old. I don't think I'm hating. So you have to like it. If you are in a friend circle and you pretend to like something for so long, you have to keep doing that. You have to keep that going. If you are the one person in your friend doing that. You have to keep that going.

If you are the one person in your friend circle that would actually listen to fucking Nickelback, you're going to be out of their friend circle. Nobody wants to be out of their fucking friend circle. You have to do it. So in order to keep that facade going that you're hip and you're cool and you know what you're talking about, you're just old as fuck, you don't understand it,

you have to keep that facade going. And the reason people didn't take, they knew what I was talking about. Oh, you just old as fuck. You don't understand it. You have to keep that facade going. And the reason people didn't take, they knew what I was talking about. They didn't take it wrong. They didn't take it wrong. They just don't want to be wrong. They don't want to be wrong. They don't want to be like,

fuck, damn, this nigga's right. Fuck. Literally the other day, the other day I couldn't tell what the fuck I was listening to the radio because it all just sounded the same and I just

went back to your statement and I was just like damn like why the fuck why was he being chastised for saying the truth you know what another reason

that people took that message wrong because there was nothing before that so what I was doing was my twitch stream where people send me their music and I literally do a whole Twitch stream where I rate music on my Twitch stream.

So I'm rating music on my Twitch stream, and everybody's sending me the same shit. And I'm like, bro. Bro, stop. I can literally tell you he's frustrated. Bro, I was like, dude, because I like make money for that shit. You know why? I make money for that shit. I'm like, if I get it, I'm getting paid for this shit.

But please make it enjoyable. Part of the reason why people were coming at you was because you, a lot of people didn't know that you coined autotune and everyone else kind of sounded like you. Right. So they think I'm sounding like you. Yeah, exactly. They thinking that you coined Auto-Tune and everyone else kind of sounded like you. Right. So they think I'm sounding like. Yeah, exactly. They thinking that you was a part of the bunch.

So I was reading the comments. I literally posted it on mine. So I posted your clip on my Instagram. Yeah, we got to talk about that too. And I read all the comments. And they're like, well, most people were confused because you know what it is? I think the fans nowadays, they have a five-year memory, and that's it. I think that's too long.

That's too long? Yeah, that's way too long. I'm telling you what it is. It's money. It's money. It's a popularity contest. Okay. I like money.

P and Coach from QC. P and Coach? From QC. Okay. I like money. P and Coach from QC. P and Coach? From QC. Okay. Came out and they said, every time you drop a single, you automatically have to spend 200 grand. Yeah, for the radio.

Radio, promo, merch. To make it more... Wendy Day also talked about this. To make it the most popular. Mm-hmm. All right. If you don't do that, you're not cutting through the fog.

Yeah, I agree with that. So if you're not willing to do that, and you're like I'm doing right now, bro, I'm spending minimal money. I think on my new record, we probably at 15 grand right now. All right. Just chilling. Making your new record? My new record. Recording it?

Just promoting it. Promoting it. We probably at that. And you independent? I'm independent. Okay. And we are number six at Rhythmic. Got that.

We making some noise for that, right? You feel what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? That's just the funniest fucking sound. Number six at Rhythmic. So we at number six at Rhythmic, and we chilling like when your record grows organically instead of, you know, the quick 200 grand

and it goes up crazy, your scene is unpopular. I'm not going to lie. I like the 200 grand one, bro. I get it. I get it. But those are the records that last for two months. You can't

name me a record from two months ago. Me and him is against each other on this. You can't name me a record from two months ago. I can't name you a record from yesterday. I'm fucked up. I'm fucked up. I'm living. When your shit grows organically and it lasts for 10, 15 years, that's when you can brag

on shit. I'm still getting checks from fucking... It's a different kind of fan base. It's a loyal one versus an unloyal one. It's a popularity... It's the fan base, the loyal fan base against the people that just want to be seen as knowing what's

the new shit. You know what I'm saying? It's the people that want to be cool as kids and the people that want to be cool to their kids. Me and him always that want to be cool to their kids Me and him always have this discussion independent or major. I'm always on the major side I'm practically hate everything about independent Really? I made I made I made a little more But I've worked a lot harder independent. penning. Yeah. When I would have a hit record on Def Jam,

on a Tommy Boy on a penalty, it was certain Sean Packers would call me, Mike Kaiser would call me, Sham Kreska would call me and say, fall the fuck back. Once the record start working. Yeah, but you're talking about... Don't call Cosmic Cab.

That's a different era. Don't call Funk Flex no more. Like, fall back, we got it. And I swear to God, they had me. So I want to big them up. But that was the time that we were living in. Yeah, so. But it was still 200 grand, though.

That 200 grand was there, too. So it just doesn't take that now. It doesn't take any of that. It's literally four buttons, and you're going to have a song out tonight. And my argument to him is, I'm not against the majors, but I'm saying be independent, so if you do upstream to a major, you take advantage of that system.

I'm not against the majors. And you can walk away from that system and keep it moving. I'm not against the majors whatsoever. And not because he's here, but you know, that's what I... But that's what I got to agree with what Rockefeller did. Rockefeller, when they was using the major, but still owning their masters. That's the difference.

That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm into. I'm into that independent major. That's what I'm saying. I'm not against the majors. You just got to know the steps. Right. You got to know what's going on.

You got to know what's actually happening with your shit. And I mean, I fell victim to that multiple times. I didn't know what the fuck was going on. I know they pay for everything. I get to pay it back. I'm making millions. I don't give a shit. It's the worst loan ever.

Yeah, you don't give a shit when it's working. The worst loan of all time. When you work it, it's the worst loan ever. When it's happening. When it's on the downside, it's a problem. When you can't pay it back. And if you recoup, you're good. If you don't recoup, this is the worst loan ever.

But the difference between making fast food music and gourmet music is you can pay that back with gourmet music. Right. I can get $3 million from Universal right now and pay it back in two years. Let's make some noise for that guy. Like, without releasing music.

Right. I'm still getting checks from 15 years ago. Shit. Right. That's catalog. checks from 15 years ago. Shit. Right. That's catalog. But that's what I'm saying. Catalog money, you said? Catalog.

Oh, catalog. Okay. Catalog. But when you make fast food music and your shit goes away in two months, you can't get that advance back. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right.

They're like, this song is hot as fuck. Here's $2 million. You made $90,000 off of it. We're going to need the rest of that very soon because you was on atlantic right i was i don't know i was on first of all i was on jive yeah jive i was on jive rice who's who's who's very wise okay okay so i was on jive and then jive caved and turned into rca and they didn't tell anybody oh yeah they did that to me they didn't tell anybody. Oh yeah, they did that to me. They didn't say shit. Oh, welcome to the game. Welcome to the game.

I'm glad I was the only one. So the crazy thing was the worst thing about that venture and that joint venture was RCA acquired four labels. They got... Which was? They got... All I know is they got Jive. Okay. But I think they got some of Epic. They got... Which was? They got, they got, all I know is they got Jive. Okay. But I think

they got some of Epic, they got some of Def Jam, they got like a lot of shit. So RCA acquired four labels worth of artists, but they only still had one label worth of employees. Right. Wow. So if you had 10 records to take to radio, if you got a Chris Brown joint placed, you did your job for the day. They didn't give a fuck what didn't get placed. They go back to fucking Peter and was like, I did my job today. We got Chris Brown on the radio. They was like, what about the other nine? They wasn't fucking with him.

Okay, but you got one, right? Cool. There it is. So RCA really stopped giving a fuck about their artists that wasn't performing as well as the other artists. And I literally called Peter one day. Peter is the president of RCA. And I was like, hey, I understand what's going on. Please drop me. Let me go. And he, right out of his mouth on the phone,

said, you think I'm going to let somebody else get T-Pain? We're not even having this conversation. Boom, hung up on me. I would have had that conversation. Yeah. I sound official. You can't drop yourself, T-Pain. Yeah, I'm like, bro, please.

You're not doing anything for me. I'm not bringing you any revenue. Because out of his mouth, he's like, urban music doesn't make us any money. And I was like, well, I'm doing urban music. I would gladly not be a hindrance anymore. Just let me go. And he's like, you think I'm going to let somebody else have T-Pain? Did he just say hindrance?

Yep. Great word. Great word. Three syllables. Don't know what it means but I'll look it up later three syllables you piece of shit

I would have killed that shit in Scrabble that nigga's ain't fucking with me on Scrabble Scrabble? yep nah

I thought you was ready what's up Jake's head Scrabble what's up I can't even speak English

come on bro Boris got you Boris got you holy so you was Ready. What's up? I can't even speak English. Come on, bro. Boris got you. Boris got you. Holy. So you was never on Atlantic? I never knew that. I thought you was on Atlantic with Mike Kaiser and them.

I did a lot of publishing deals with Atlantic. Okay, that's checks. I'm calling your money. So, Mike would bring me over to do different things

he'd just like sit me down you know how they do writing sessions now like you have a bunch of writers in the room it was just me all the time he was like T-Pain sit in the room I got 20 beats pick one write to the shits

and I would rail through them bitches I would just like, first thing that comes to mind, boom, boom, boom. I did the hook to Low with Flo Rida, and the hook to Shawty with Plyce the same night. Yeah, I ain't gonna forget. That was

the same fucking night, and I just, I was just railing off hooks, and I did them two in the same night, and I was like, yeah, we can probably keep doing this. Listen, I don't know if you know, but at one point you were the cheat code.

Yeah. Like, you had a cheat code record. I was the cheat code until Snoop did Sensible Seduction. Why? Because he made it sound good?

I don't understand. No, because he, because he let everybody know you didn't need T-Pain to use Auto-Tel. I tried it sound good? No, because he let everybody know you didn't need T-Pain to use Auto-Tune. I tried it, and I needed you, bro. You have the record. Auto-Tune ain't working, man.

No, but they put Auto-Tune on their vocals. When they say Auto-Tune make everybody sound good, that's a lie. That sounds horrible. That sounds horrible. So it's still a skill to honor someone. I get it, but when Snoop... He can actually sing though.

But when Snoop did sensual... What was it? Sexual... Sexual seduction. So when he did that, he let people know, you don't have to call T-Pain. And he didn't even write that record, right? I don't know. I didn't write it. I had nothing to do with that record. I had nothing to do with it.

Wasn't it one of your sessions? Which made it so much crazier. So let's just be clear. You didn't like this record. This is the album we put on first. First of all. Was this another death of autumn? First of all, I love the record.

You love the record? It was one of the best records Snoop's ever done. Yeah, yeah. I ain't going to lie. It was amazing. The fucking beat was crazy. They wrote the shit out of that shit. I fucking love the record,

which is why I'm so mad at it. It's like, this shit is good, I guess. So after that, people stopped calling you? Yeah, and because before that, Jamie Foxx got me on Blame It because he was using Auto-Tune.

And he was like, I don't want to be seen as trying to take your shit. So I'm going to do that. Fucking Diddy gave me a point on Last Train to Paris because he was using Auto-Tune. Just because he was using it. Just because he was using it. I wasn't even on there. That's dope. Like, he gave me a point on Last Train.

Let's pick up a chair, man. Let's pick up a chair. That's some gangster shit right there. Shout out to Love. Shout out to Love. Shout out to Black Love. I ain't been to Club Love yet. Come on.

But I'm hoping to get there. Like I said, I was the face. I was the face of it. So anytime anybody had anything to do with Auto 2 and it was me, I was involved. And Snoop made it clear to people. That you don't need. No, you can just you know this is just available for everybody

you never got any revenue from autotune or application the autotune people so yeah let's get to it we got into a spat okay I don't know what spat means for the record god damn it a legal disagreement

with autotune I need to hear this homie that's in the I don't know what spat means for the record. God damn it. A legal disagreement. With Auto-Tune. I need to hear this. Yeah, okay. Wait, the homie that's in the documentary? Yeah, yeah, Dr. Andy. Yeah. So the guy that invented Auto-Tune. The Netflix documentary?

Yeah, the white guy? The guy that invented Auto-Tune. By the way, how did you end up on that fucking, that documentary? It was a pop documentary. Here's the crazy thing. Okay, let's go back to it. Let's go to Auto-Tune.

That was supposed to be, that whole documentary was supposed to be like an's go back to it. That was supposed to be... That whole documentary was supposed to be like an episode on some obscure-ass Canadian TV show. And it ended up on Netflix. And it ended up on fucking Netflix.

Did they get your signature? I mean, obviously, yeah. You signed the death row records. Okay. So, what the fuck were we saying? Oh, no, no, no. It was great. It was great. Oh, yeah. So, Dr the fuck were we saying? Oh, no, no, no. It was great. It was great.

Oh, yeah. So, Dr. Andy refused to put my name in accordance with the app itself. The software. With the software. Wow. Nothing to do with it. And then I made my own. You had a doll or something like that, right?

No, I had software. Wow. I had software called the T-Pain Effect because I realized every time I would go in a guitar center, anytime somebody was looking for auto-tune, they would say, let me get the T-Pain Effect. Where's the T-Pain Effect? Do y'all have the T-Pain Effect?

I made a product called the T-Pain Effect. To make it easy how you were looking for it. If you want the T-Pain Effect. Do y'all have the T-Pain Effect? I made a product called the T-Pain Effect. To make it easy how you were looking for it. If you want the T-Pain Effect, you're getting the T-Pain Effect and you're not going to get Auto-Tune. So they said,

you guys took our technology, you can't use this, boom, boom, boom. And I was like, that's fair. I stalled it a little bit. That makes sense. I probably shouldn't do that.

That's fair. I get it. You were like, my fault again. I get it. But probably shouldn't do that. That's for, I get it. You're like my fall game. I get it, but then they released a new version of Auto-Tune and on the back of the box it says,

you've seen, you've heard our shit on popular artists like T-Pain and I'm like, oh, if I can't do that, you can.

What the fuck? So, so, but they had already put it out. Right. They had to have every product white out my name.

Wow. Like, in the store, like, the store employees. Y'all couldn't just come to an agreement where you get paid off of it? He wasn't fucking with it. He was already straight. He already made money. He was like, I don't need you, nigga. Yeah, but he could have just said, do right by you.

Like, what you did for that. Everybody's not like love, right? Everybody's not like that. Now, if you look on the new Auto-Tune, it says you've heard our effect on people of such a future and everybody else that have used Auto-Tune. Just not me. So now he's switched it up.

But it's on some... Like, I made you, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, the only reason people know your shit exists is because of what I did. God damn it. Talk that shit. You know what I'm saying?

Because Auto-Tune was created to be hidden. Right. And I made it very fucking noticeable. So it's like... You made it mainstream. Right. Would you battle Future and Versus? Yeah.

What? Who's winning? How you gonna ask him that? I want him to talk that talk. To the public, Future will win. Absolutely. Because it's right now. That's not what I wanted to ask you.

Because we don't have the same records. Okay. Like, what's the feel-good records that... Like, what would Future play at the bartender? Molly Percocet? I don't know. What? Something with drugs. Something with drugs. What would Future play after Bartender? Molly Perkinset? I don't know. What?

Something with drugs. Something with drugs. Something with drugs. Something with drugs. What would he play after I'm Sprung? Cause we gotta match records. When you play records, you gotta match records. You gotta say, if I play my,

if I could change the world with me, Diddy, Mary J. Blige And Akon What's Future gonna play After that You gotta We in two different Categories It's gotta be me and Akon

On Versus The fact that me And Lil Jon did a Versus Was the most fun Versus Of all time But If we Y'all wasn't in the same room

We wasn't in the same room We gotta redo that By the way. Hey, um, Swiss, Timbo. Yeah, they watching. They're right there. I literally did just read to Swiss earlier, though. Like, what the fuck, bro?

Just thought y'all got jerked. You felt like y'all got jerked. Y'all was drinking. Oh, no, we didn't get jerked. Now we have stock and Triller, so we all got... Goddamn, make some noise. We got... Yeah. By the way, Swiss, you told me y'all got stock and Triller, so we all got it. Goddamn, make some noise for that. Yeah. By the way, Swiss, you told me I got stock and Triller.

I haven't heard you from that since. Yeah, nobody in my lawyer. It was good news, though. It was a very good FaceTime. Thank you. Very good FaceTime. No, I mean, I think it would hit for a hit. I think the only people that can fuck with me in the verse

is that I'd be nervous about would be Akon and R. Kelly yeah I'm listen you got a lot of R. Kelly records do you have a damn

that sounds that sounds a little that sounds a little suspect to what he said right there I was trying to avoid this question fuck

it isn't the same as it was 10 years ago. You got out of R. Kelly. You notice how, like, 10 years ago, you would say, I got R. Kelly records, and you'd be like, yo, that's good. That shit held merit a little while ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was like, yeah,

a couple of remixes, R. Kelly kept popping up on your shit. I was like, holy shit. Damn, R. Kelly frequents your playlist. He does, though. He does. I ain like, holy shit. Damn, he frequents your playlist. He does though, he does. Shake his hand and shit. I ain't never seen a nigga wash his hands before. Oh my God.

God damn it. Son of a bitch. Did you call him Robert? Did I call him right now? No, Robert. We of a bitch. Did you call him Robert? Did I call him right now? We called him Cal. I always measure a person's relationship by how they call them. Like, I've never called Eminem Marshall.

You can't. People will come here and be like, Marshall. I'm like, who the fuck is Marshall? You can't. We're going to call L.L. Todd. Bro, niggas do that shit to me in the mall. Like, bro, You can't miss this. Or LL Todd. We're gonna call LL Todd. Bro, niggas do that shit to me in the mall. Like, bro, we walking past, first of all,

my name's T-Pain, my nigga. We all know that. Nigga walk past me, Teddy. Looking at my wife like, baby, do we know this? He don't know me, Teddy. I was like, what's up, Victor? I was like, I not Danny. Yeah. My neighbor did that to me the other day. He was like, what's up, big guy? I was like, I'm Mr. Santiago.

Yo, I was with Busta last night. I called that nigga Trevor, and I just saw his face change. That nigga was like... Nah, I never called him Trevor. Yeah, that nigga was like... What made you want to call him Trevor? I was drunk.

What the fuck? You had two of those? Yeah, I had two. You were like, I'm going to bump me. Oh, shit. I wasn't ready. Yo, let me tell you something, little nigga.

I don't know. I don't have a good buster. You don't know. So not only R. Kelly, but you got a lot of records with Chris Brown, too. You got a... Why? Like, I mean...

I want this to make Instagram. But how is that? Because, like, I imagine you develop a relationship with... I'm just going hood. Is that real? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can wash your hands, but it's okay. Yeah, all right. We got it. So how is that?

Because you got a lot of records with Chris Brown, right? And he going through this controversy. I don't know why niggas like fucking up when I want to put a record out. Really? Really. As soon as I put a record out for Chris, he fucked up.

I just recorded a fucking record for Tory Lanez. He fucked up. I don't know. I'm just not good at it. I mean, I'm the hood bitch, the bitch in the hood that just picked the wrong niggas. I was just not good at it. I'm the hood bitch, the bitch in the hood that just picked the wrong niggas.

I'm the bitch in the hood. I'm the bitch in the hood that keep wondering why she getting beat up all day. Like, what the fuck is going on? What are you niggas doing in your private lives that keeps affecting my career? What is going on? I just put out a record request

and they was like, we're not playing no more records. Shit! And I was like, oh my God, bro. I got a fire fucking record with Tory.

And now everybody's like, we're not playing no more Tory records. Jesus. Why do y'all niggas personal lives keep affecting my professional one?

I don't know, man. You ever been canceled? Yeah, I got canceled like eight times. Eight times. I keep telling everybody, three days. You're canceled for exactly three fucking days. Well, not three. You're canceled for exactly three days.

If it's a minor offense, if you just said some shit on Twitter or something like that, three days. Just in prison for exactly three days. If it's a minor offense, if he's just saying some shit on Twitter or something like that, three days. Just stay on Twitter for three days. Come back on the fourth day, nothing ever happened. Nothing ever happened. So what I... What'd you get canceled for? The last thing I got canceled for was

I guess the Tori thing. Shit. God damn it. The thing I got canceled for Before that Was I think it was X Not DMX Ecstasy? X

X X X That's your own That's your own Because everybody had found out He had beat up a chick And I was just like Guys I want you to

My message was keep the same energy for everybody y'all canceling famous people when they do shit like that but I want you to also make sure your dad hasn't beat up your mom make sure your fucking person down the road hasn't beat up them chicks but you so crazy

about when a celebrity does it there's people in your neighborhood that are doing that and you don't give a shit. And you go outside when you hear people arguing and shit with binoculars and shit and you just want to watch it

but you don't fucking go on Twitter about it and say this person needs to fucking die. You need to keep that same energy with everybody. Your pastor

done beat up a bitch, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Your pastor, ask your pastor what he was doing when he was 20 years old with a bunch of money. Go figure out what was going on. I just want you to, I'm saying You're a pastor Ask your pastor what he was doing When he was 20 years old With a bunch of money Go figure out what was going on

I just want you to I wasn't enabling And I wasn't like Getting behind Beating up fucking chicks But I was saying If you know Keep the same energy with everybody

Not just celebrities If you know R. Kelly is fucking little girls And then you know the guy down the road The little creepy guy know R. Kelly is fucking little girls, and then you know the little creepy guy down the road is also fucking little girls, get on Twitter about that too. I need you to do it all. Get everybody involved.

Fucking call them all out. Don't just call out R. Kelly because he's making money off of it. I just don't want this nigga to make money no more. I'm okay with niggas fucking little girls and being broke. I'm okay with that. But if a nigga's getting rich and fucking little girls, we can't have that.

I want you to keep the same energy for broke niggas, too. I want you to keep the same. And people thought I was saying that, you know, if your people did it, then it should be okay. Like, no, I'm saying if you are mad about this, be mad about all of it. I respect that. You feel what I'm saying?

Like, that's all I want. Like, celebrities shouldn't be held at a higher accountability than the creepy guy down the road. Right. Everybody should be held. If you're doing creepy shit, you're a creep, bro.

Right. Just go address that shit. Call the cops on the guy down the fucking road. Right. Don't go to Twitter and really not really affect anything. Cancel this person.

Cancel this person. You're not doing anything with a hashtag, bro. Call the cops on this fucking guy down the road. Like, really do something for real. Like, that's all I'll do. And I got canceled for that.

And I don't, it's not enough characters to explain all that. Because that, what I just said would have been the longest tweet of all time. So, I didn't have enough, I didn't have enough characters to explain it. So, what was the canceling, though? What did they do? Oh, they just said, they just said T-Pain's canceled.

They literally said it. Yeah, hashtag T-Pain's canceled. Which, which again, doesn't do a fucking thing. That's terrible. People think people put so much power on the internet that they think that if they hashtag something,

that's the end all be all. And it does absolutely fucking nothing. Three fucking days. I would have 900 mentions every minute when people cancel me. And when I do something good, I... 90? Like, you know, so

it's like, I understand how the internet works and, like I said, having the mindset today of, I don't really give a fuck about strangers like that. You know, it's not my responsibility to make you think I'm a good person. You gotta fucking look for it. You gotta search. You know, it's not my responsibility to make you think I'm a good person. You gotta fucking look for it.

You gotta search. You gotta do some research, bro, on anything. Like, just as much as fucking anti-vaxxers do research on vaccinations, fucking do research on me, bro. You know I ain't no fuck nigga. You know I don't do no fuck shit. Like, come in. Come into

my world, and you'll see what the fuck i do you know what i'm saying uh somebody tried to make me seem like a bad person a couple days ago they asked me on my twitch stream what's your favorite late night drink you ever heard of late night drink i thought all the drinks and i said what the fuck is a late night drink? And this person went to Reddit and was like, I got insulted by T-Pain and I don't know if I can listen to his music anymore. And I'm like, what the fuck?

Bro! What the fuck is a late night drink? And this dude is 30 years old. I thought it was going to be a teenager that just hadn't heard or just don't know about alcoholism, shit like that.

If you would have said, what's your favorite alcoholic drink? I'd get that. This motherfucker said, what's your favorite late night drink? And he said, I'm 30 years old and I've never been insulted like this in my life. And I'm like, you need to go outside. Or not. Or don't go outside.

You need to go touch grass, nigga, because this shit... This shit... Bro, have you not been around people? Nigga, welcome to people. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? So what the fuck is a late night drink? He was asking me about alcohol, I guess.

Oh, that's what he was asking you? Yeah, he was like, what's your favorite alcohol to drink? But I have literally a command on my Twitch that if you put exclamation mark drink, it tells you all the drinks I drink on my stream. Why? But he asked me, what's your favorite late night drink? And then I laughed like, what the fuck is a late night drink? And I moved on.

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yeah, that's it? Yeah, yeah. You want to take, Don't worry, that got washed out, but it's on the DVD, so you watch that. So,

so this, it's multiple choice, right? You can pick one or two. If you pick both, you drink. If you pick neither, you drink. If you, and it's so choice, right? You can pick one or two. If you pick both, you drink. If you pick neither, you drink. And it's so simple, right? Simple, right?

No. No, not even a little. That wasn't simple at all. One late night drink. Let me get some Cesarac, though. Oh, shit. Because, you know, we were the good people at Cesarac. Oh, y'all do it, too?

Yeah, I'll do it, too. Yeah, we'll drink with you. Yeah, we'll drink with you. That's not fair. All right. Yeah, I'm bored about it. That shirt is fire. He made it.

Eddie Giggs. Shout out, Eddie Giggs. What is that from? From Goonies. Goonies, okay. Yeah. All right, cool. That's fire.

All right, you ready to take a blunt on the boys? Wait, does everybody take shots, or? Oh, if you want. You should. Hey, man. Hey, man, take a shot. This is or? Oh, if you want. You should. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Come on, take a shot.

This is your show today, baby. Everybody. All right. Pass out the little cups. I got some marijuana. So we're gonna start with the first one. Jay-Z or Nas? If you pick four, what'd you say?

Jay. Smart choice. I feel like he feels big behind that. He's like, ah! Get the fuck outta here! Get outta here! Why are you in here? This ain't even interesting to you. This ain't even one of your,

this ain't even your whole day. You literally got other shit to do. Get out of here. Why are you here? All right, Usher or Chris Brown? I don't know what you're going to answer with this one. But I'm ready to drink with you if you're down. Chris.

Okay. Chris, I'll do Chris. I didn't, I didn't. Oh, wait, no, no, wait. Give me a second. Hold on. Let me think. Let me think.

Chris. Chris, okay, all right, cool, cool. I thought you was going to go both. I thought you was going to go both. Nah, I mean, us are still the greatest. Okay. But Chris, I just know him more personally, I guess. Okay, so Poison Clan or 2 Live Crew? Oh, you suck.

Yeah, be careful with that. I mean, you know, it's actually pretty good. Let's go now. I mean, Poison Clan is the baby 2 Live Crew, so you could say. It's too late, man. It's too late. Drink. It's too late.

It's too late. Drink. We drink it. Cheers it. Drink. God damn it. It's JT Money. Shout out JT Money, man.

Oh, why was that worse? Why was that worse? Why was that worse? Okay, you ready? I got a whole cup of it. Why was that worse than when I was already... A shot is always worse. A shot is always worse. But this one, I don't...

DMX or Tupac? You... Why? What the fuck? You drinking? X. All right, you know he's looking at you right there. Right there.

Damn it. He was literally listening to you. I'm going to say X. Because X, to me, knew Melody more. And Melody is real big in my heart. And X was a big influence on me. Pac, I wasn't, still am not super gangsta, so I couldn't, like, relate to a lot of that. Oh, wow. Wow.

That's dope. X was singing and shit, and I was like, yeah, I'll fuck with this. This makes me feel better and more relatable to me. I still love Pac, but I just I wasn't living that lifestyle when he was spitting it. I respect that. Alright, um Kanye or Pharrell?

I got it. You gotta stop doing what you're doing. God damn it. Are these from people? Or did you see? That's from the engineer right there. He fucking sent them last night. You shouldn't have hit the road caster. Right, what the fuck, god damn it. I'm going to have to get to a compression sentence later too, because y'all shit be loud.

And everybody be complaining about my fucking voice. We drinking? Kanye or Pharrell? Yeah. Yeah, we drinking. Yeah, we drinking, let's go. God damn. What? I, we drinking. Yeah, we drinking. Let's go. Yeah.

Let's go. God damn. What? Salud. All right, hold on. Moving along. Moving along. All right.

I definitely don't know this. So I'm about to ask you a question that I don't know. So now you know. The engineer wrote this. He ghost wrote this. When did he do this? Auto-tune or Melodyne? Auto-tune.

That's, yeah. What is Melodyne? Melodyne is, so auto-tune is what it says. It's automatic. It fixes your shit automatically. When you hit a wrong note, it'll fix it automatically. Melodyne, you sing normal, and you can take the notes that you hit

and put them where they need to be. So, Melodyne is more work. You're mad smart, T-Pain. I'm not. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be the smartest guest we ever had. I'm a fucking nerd, bro.

I'm just going to get this ready. I'm just getting ready. Because I'm about to drink out of this. Pro tools or logic? Drinking? Both. Damn. All right, I'm in.

We ain't got the fourth. Give him some more tequila. I told you to get it ready. I told you to get it ready. You're right. You're right. This is my Moana. Salud.

What is that mama wanna Right we just came from Dominican Republic, you said? Yeah, we just got back. You saw my body. What? Now, look at that shit. That shit look horrible. Just keep it real. Keep it real, man.

It ain't nothing attractive about that. It's locally made. That shit look like... You knew that you were at Kendall, man. I don't think he's at Kendall. I'm fucking with you. Okay. You knew that. I don't think he's a Kendall. I'm fucking with you. OK. OK, this one I don't know what you're going to go with.

Outkast or UGK? Oh. Drinking? Outkast. Outkast. OK, look. On you. Outkast.

I'm going to just real quick. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't smell the ace. Don't smell the ace. Smell the ace. No, don't spill it. Okay. It's expensive in here. All right.

It smell like broke in here. Okay. Trigger Daddy or Rick Ross? Oh, you got to stop. Okay. What the fuck, bro? What the fuck, bro? It's not both. It's not both. It's not both.

It's not both. It's not both. Okay. You're a Florida boy, too, so this is it. I know what you're going to say, though. You're killing me. Ross, it's going to be who you work with the most. I remember trick a lot.

I remember trick a lot. Not more than Ross. Okay. The things that came out. Yeah. Okay, podcast or radio? Podcast. I liked it there.

I'm going to take a shot for that. Even though I'm really supposed to drink. You just do it. I feel like we did it. I'm going to drink. Fuck it. I like podcasts, god damn it. That's because of me.

Also, check out Nappy Boy Radio Podcast. Let's go. This is Nappy Boy Radio Live, which is more T-Pen. Okay. All right. Don't do that. I know what you're going to do. I'm taking that, by the way.

No problem. You got it. No problem. Major or independent? That's subjective. That depends on how much money you have as a person. I love how you're answered this mad intelligently. Yeah, nah, because it's like

if you got 200 grand to spend on a record, absolutely. You gotta have more than that one 200 grand. Oh, no, no, no. Independently, you gotta be right once. And you're gonna be the most famous nigga for at least three months.

And that's enough to fund the next record. You only got to be right once yourself. If you write that once, everything else is going to... But most likely you're not going to be right once, like that first time is what I'm saying. Yeah, most likely. That was a great one. That was the worst throw. That was with my left hand That was the worst throw. The illest catch.

Did you see the catch? That was a... That was in my left hand, too, by the way. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I didn't see it come from you, but the arch... The arch was of McDowell's entity. That was nice.

I saw the arch. You know what's funny? When they filmed McDowell's, that was up the I saw the arch. You know what's funny? When they film, you know, when they film McDowell's, that's up the block from my hood. If you look at it, if you look at it, if you look at it, they show left rack. You was in there? You was in there?

Nah, they wouldn't let me on the set. I tried to, yo, I rode my bike. I'm from up the block, though. Yeah, I'm from up the block. I rode my bike there, and they wouldn't let me meet Eddie Murphy. You tried? Yeah, I tried to meet Eddie.

You know how big Eddie Murphy was back then? Of course. Did you? No, I didn't. Okay, that was bad. He shut me down. Who did that? Who did that?

Where did that come from? That was just going on. Stop throwing shit, man. Okay. All right. I know where you're going to go with this one. College or DJ Drama? Take a shot.

Ooh! That's too, that's not even the same thing. I know, that's why I was designed for this. It's supposed to be difficult. That's not even the same thing. It's a lot of niggas. It's a lot of fucking DJs trying to do what Cali's doing. Nobody. So what we doing right now, TK?

Philly is really close. Philly is really close to doing what Cali is doing. So are we taking a half a shot? I don't know. I'm just saying, when you say nobody's doing what Cali's doing, Philly is really close. Philly Phel, out in the West Coast. My man. Philly Phel is doing really close to what Cali is doing.

I don't feel like that's fair. You get to be inebriated while we're... You can smoke. You want to smoke? Yeah, you got to. No, I'm just saying, you're getting like a different...

That's kind of like a shot for you. This is a shot for me. Yeah, he says, I don't drink. I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's okay. It's all I'm saying.

Caled or drama? Yeah. Drama. Drama, okay. Drama, you know why? Wow, drama. Drama, and it's going to sound like a shot at Caled, but it's really not.

Okay. Drama is doing close to what Khaled is doing, but he also supports the artist that he signs. Like Jack Harlow? Jack Harlow, Uzi. Uzi. They got beef, though. I mean, regular label

beef. Right. I want to drop ten records today. My label ain't letting me do it. Oh, God, I'm going to die. Like... 10 records today. My label ain't letting me do it. Oh God, I'm going to die. Like, the label's asking me to make names for these records. I don't want it, my fans don't want names.

My label is so terrible. They're asking me for a graphic for my album. Like, bro. Too much pressure. It's so much pressure. My label is so terrible. They're asking me for a graphic for my album art. Like, bro. Too much pressure. It's so much pressure.

My fans don't even care about album art. I just don't even, we don't need a picture. Just make it white. I'm Kanye now. I can do whatever I want. My label is still. It's the Illuminati. It definitely is the Illuminati. It's the Illuminati. It definitely is the Illuminati.

It's the Illuminati, oh God, it's the Illuminati. I want to drop a record that isn't finished. I'd have an open second verse. I'd have an open second verse and my label won't let me drop it. Oh my God, they're so constricting. Fuck. Heck yeah bro Like Y'all niggas You'd be a great

Record label Exactly Yeah I mean But it's like Bro y'all just paid 72 dollars For Chicken Fingers To hear an album

That wasn't even finished And then Niggas wanna be like Oh I need to do that too I wanna I wanna fill up a stadium Oh why isn't my label Helping me fill up a stadium. Why isn't my label helping me fill up a stadium of people to hear my unfinished album?

Madel, Mercedes. What? You think you deserve that now? I got to be honest. Sarnie has to be the best salesman in the world. He had us all thinking he was getting an album, and then he just gave us a verse. And he didn't officially even give us a verse verse and he didn't officially give us a verse. We don't even got nothing.

He's a magician. That nigga hit us with a Jay Z reference and was like, yep, this is gonna be on the album. I guarantee it. Listen, I pre-ordered. I pre-ordered. No pre-orders, man. I pre-ordered my mind. No pre-orders. I pre-ordered, man.

No pre-orders. If I've learned anything in the gaming community, don't pre-order nothing. Don't pre-order nothing. Wait until it's done and finished. Wait until it's actually happening. You can't fucking pre-order nothing. And we all sat and watched this man. He got us.

Push a pre-order in our fucking nostrils. I got you. He did a COVID test to us. He did. He went. A very evasive one. God damn. God damn.

Wherever you at, Kanye, you are the man. I don't get it. I stopped trying to understand. Hey, speaking of which, Florida, what the fuck? Who? Florida. Florida? All the time.

Just what? We got the highest COVID rate. We got the highest COVID rate. Florida, come on. What's happening? It's Florida. It's Florida. Come on, we know this already. I happening? Like what, like? It's Florida. It's Florida. Come on, we know this already.

Let me tell you something. I'm from New York City, born and raised. Born and raised in New York City, love New York City my whole life. You live in Broward now. No, I live in Broward now. But I'ma just tell you something. Florida's the most gangster place in the, in the,

yo, I'm kidding you not. You can literally buy anything out here. I keep telling you. Literally, like, I've seen, I've seen today. We keep. I keep telling you. Literally, like, I've seen today. We keep telling you, niggas, the reason why we think New York and New Jersey is the same place is because we don't leave this motherfucker. Like, this shit is just a place to us. When you say Florida, you're talking about every single city. You're not saying, you know, Tampa is different from Orlando because they got more

roller coasters. I think we get it like, it's not, it's different, nigga. This shit is real. We, bro, we will shoot you. Yes.

Yes, it's true. It's true. Over very little shit. It's true. Different languages, too. We'll shoot you in different languages. There's two different languages.

This is when I first really understood Florida. We were filming a video. Daddy Yankee is walking across the street and a guy literally just comes out and just shoots in the air. Celebration. Daddy Yankee was crossing the street too slow. He was like, what do you think, there's a game out here?

He came, wah! And I literally... I literally didn't even jump, because I felt normal. This is normal. This was like, this was normal out here. It's like a fucking Dubai wedding over here. People over there from New York was like,

what the fuck did we just witness? And you didn't even jump. You just witnessed. I don't know, it's just kind of like, that's just normal. And that was Oye Mi Canto, right? That's Oye Mi Canto. And there was a hurricane coming. And a hurricane.

And these motherfuckers are like, yeah, we don't feel like, I gotta go board up now. First of all, niggas is not walking while a hurricane is coming. And then you're in your car driving while a hurricane is coming. It's different things, man.

You know what's even wilder out here? And I'm sorry, we gotta finish quick, don't want to sound sloppy. No, you're good, you're good. What's even wilder is when the hurricanes happen, my white neighbors go surfing, man.

It's a party. That's the only time that's up. It's a party. I be looking at them like, what the fuck is going on? It's a party. It's the only time there's weddings. I don't have the same cable I got.

It's a party, bro. When people with y'all, bro. And if he surfs, I be like, yo. There's literally a thing out here called hurricane parties. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like, it's not a joke. We all get in the same place. I love you. We gonna die. We gonna die. Yeah, definitely. Like, it's not a joke. We all get in the same place.

I love you. I love you, too. We're going to die. We're going to die together. We're going to die. We're going to die together. I'm telling you. Out here, it's hurricane parties.

It's mostly white people. Yeah, it's all white people. But there ain't a party when your AC goes out and is out for a day or two. There's no more party. No more party after that. That's why I'm a condo guy. This is animal cruelty. Okay.

All right. All right. Trina or Lil' Kim? Oh. It's not the Haitian right there. Oh. That was Creole. It was definitely Creole.

Kim. Okay, I didn't expect that. Okay, analog or digital? Of what? Anything. It's quick time or slime. Okay, do you know the definition of vague? What do you refer?

In the studio. In the studio. In the studio. Digital. Digital? Have you ever worked at a bar? So, you know who doesn't prefer digital? Timberland.

Did you say Timberland or Zimmerman? Timberland. No, Timberland. I thought you said Zimmerman for a second. I was going to say, what are we going? Timberland, this nigga has a studio full of keyboards every time I walk in there. And I have all those keyboards in my computer just chilling. Saving space.

Right. You don't have to have all these fucking heat generators just sitting in the fucking studio. And I'm like, bro, just chill, my nigga. You can have all this stuff. And he's like, yeah, but it's not the real sound. You know what I thought about the other day, TK? Huh? You know what I thought about the other day?

What'd you think? Why we've never seen Timberland in a pair of Timberlands. I'ma tell you right now. I'm high? I'ma tell you right now, as a Florida boy, them chicks is uncomfortable, bro. Yeah, I'm just saying right now. I don't fuck with boots.

I exclusively don't fuck with boots because of Timberland. Like, I don't want Timberlands, Buffalinos, I don't motherfucking... I don't even know what Buffalinos is. What's the shit Wu-Tang used to wear? Wallabies. Wallabies! No! None of that. This shit is uncomfortable.

It's over. Stop telling me that I need to wear this boot untied. You want some Skechers? Untied because it looks cool to New Yorkers. That shit is uncomfortable. They're called constructions

because niggas only wear them shits doing construction. Can you imagine living a day as a construction worker if you're not a construction worker? What the fuck are you talking about? Them shits is uncomfortable. And the tan ain't even really tan.

Bro, I would straight up wear army boots over motherfucking Timberlake. I swear to God, if I had more options of where to tie my shoes at. Bro, there's no other definition. Bro, so, and we're filming this in Florida. There's no other definition of

that's a New York nigga. Then to see a nigga walking down the street with a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and a fucking pair of Timberlands. Bro, what up your ankles, my nigga? What of your ankles, bro?

Your ankles are suffering right now. Bro, I can tell. I can tell by how you're walking you're not having a good time, my nigga. And you're trying to go to South Beach? You got 70 minutes it's 70 minutes this way you can't even you're not gonna

you're gonna have to peel the skin of your fucking ankles by the time you get the fucking you're the fucking I can't even fuck I don't even know how that went into I get like blue Yankee boom absolutely wear the hat my nigga.

But something that tears the skin off of your goddamn ankles in four minutes. I just don't know how that became a cultural thing. Black people, stop doing that. Listen, listen. Stop. You know who's fucked up. You know why?

Because you got to walk everywhere in fucking New York. Can you catch a goddamn Uber XL to a goddamn five-minute spot down the road without having to pay $123,000? And then you just stop, just walk. You know what's fucked up? My first week where I officially lived out here, I didn't feel complete unless I had this bad temper. I swear to God. I swear to God. I had to call home. It was like, yo, send me a pair of Timbs.

Send me a pair of foot destroyers. Please. I don't feel right unless my feet are being absolutely destroyed. What the fuck? Get out of there. Jesus Christ. Why is that a cult following? Are you from New York?

You got to feel like you're working all the time. You know what's crazy about constructs, real constructs? They actually are comfortable. They're not. I'm just being honest. If you get a construction, they actually are. That's why we wear them untied. You said okay. That's why we wear them untied. All right, check this out.

Check this out. You said it. That's why we wear them untied. They're very comfortable if you wear them right. They're very comfortable if you wear them right. Right, right.

That's why you said untied. You niggas, but the trend, and you niggas, do not wear them right. If an actual construction worker saw you wearing the constructs the way you wear them, they If an actual construction worker saw you wearing the constructs the way you're wearing them, they'd be like, bro, why are you even wearing them?

The unlaced and the tie and the knot and the lace so it doesn't un- I got seven pairs of 10s right now in Florida. With the tongue out? It's niggas that's actually

doing construction work that's wearing them shits and they're like, bro, y'all niggas is doing this for fashion? Is that right? Nah, you gotta keep it clean. My shits, it's niggas on roofs right now in Miami

that's like, y'all niggas use this shit for fashion? What? This is a trend to y'all niggas? I'm wearing this shit because it's useful. It's actually helping me fix this roof. And y'all niggas

is just saying... No, actually, they're not wearing Timberlands, the guys that's doing constructs. They're wearing sketches, yeah. You know why? You know why? You know why? Because y'all niggas drove the fucking price up. Let's just be real. Look at that move.

How you talking about that? You know why? It's true. Because these niggas is making $7 a fucking hour, and y'all niggas drove the price up of fucking Timbos to goddamn, $129 to for nothing. Yeah, it's true. Just to use them incorrectly. It's true.

Fingers was actually. Let's get out of QuickTime with Slime real fast. Oh, God. Jesus Christ. That's the longest QuickTime with Slime we ever done. All right. Right. Scarface or Ice Cube?

The rappers. Yeah. Not the movies. Okay. This is an Ice Cube movie The rappers. Yeah. Not the movies. Okay. This is an Ice Cube movie? Mm-hmm. It is? Everything.

Oh, everything. Have you ever seen a black movie? Yeah, it's Ice Cube. Ice Cube vision? Ice Cube. He did more. Okay.

He came more out of the gangster realm and fucking made family movies. Acceptable. It's like Snoop and Martha Stewart. You came out of the gangster realm and still was able to make that shit. Ice Cube, no question.

Scarface, I love Scarface. He did not project off the momentum. Ice Cube came out the momentum on some gangster shit. Nigga went from no Vaseline to are we there yet? What? What? What? What a fucking transition, nigga.

Like, did you plan this? Right. Yeah, Ice Cube, no question. Business sense is through the fucking roof. Okay. Biggie or Big Pun? You gotta stop. How? That's a shot. That's a shot?

No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Pun. I'm taking a shot for that, though. I'm gonna take a shot for that. Pun. I'm taking a shot for that, though. I'm going to take a shot for that. Pun addressed his fatness a lot more. He actually helped me become fat. He helped you become fat? I'm going to take a shot for that.

I guess that's okay. No. All right. I'm going to get smashed. Mumble right. I'm going to get smashed. Mumble rap? I'm going to get canceled again? I got to wait three days? I mean, it's three days.

When is this coming out? Mumble rap or lyrical rap? Or mumbly lyrical rap? That exists? The fuck? Does that exist? No. Um... In what setting?

In your setting in your car. In my car? Yeah, what do you prefer to do? Mumble rap or you want to hear some lyrical, lyrical, lyrical, lyrical? I mean, when you say it like that, bro, who the fuck wants to listen to that? My bad.

You set that up for failure. I need the shot to start to affect me. There is lyrical mumble rap. There is lyrical mumble rap. There is. He just did it. I bet you. Yeah, it's crazy.

By the way, I think literally... In the car. So in the studio, I'm like lo-fi shit, mumble rap in my car. Fucking Mos Def. Fucking Blackstar.

You know what I'm saying? This is set up for the next question. Is this both? Yeah, we got a drink. Let's go. I respect that. It depends on the setting, man. Salud. Cheers. I'm gonna drink a drink. Right, let's go. Let's go. I respect that. Yeah, we gotta drink. I respect that. It depends on the setting, man.

Salud. Cheers. The Migos or the Lox? I need to set up. You, uh, the fuck? Great setup. Oh, man. Bigs, don't.

The Migos or the Lox? Migos. Migos because... No? Migos because them niggas can rap and they choose to not do that. They choose not to? I ain't gonna lie.

Bro, have you heard like a real. That album that they just dropped? Bro. What's the name of that album? Culture 3? Yo, that shit is hard. Can you. Bro, if you hear.

Bro, if you listen to Offset Versus. Mm-hmm. He, that nigga can't. All three of them. First of all, first of all, have you ever seen Offset Dance? No, I've never seen that. Sorry. The nigga's the best.

Okay. Wait, it correlates with the wrong? Offset, that's Cardi B's husband, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You are the worst. Why are you the worst? That's how I identify her.

One to Cardi B. That's not the correlation. Oh, look at it. So, bro. My bad. So, like, we was listening to, Busta was showing us his new album last night. We were listening to the shit. Busta was showing us his new album last night. We were listening to the shit. Busta has 25,000 albums.

He's got one that's coming. He's got one that's coming on the 30th, and it's the 30th anniversary of his first album. Breaking news right here on Dream Channel. Cut it out. I didn't mean it. I'm sure he wanted to, I'm sure he wanted to do that. T-Pain breaking news for Bustle Rhymes.

God damn it. I'm so mad at that shit. I didn't announce it. Man, you fucked up again, T-Pain. I fucked up again. God damn it. I keep doing that. I didn't announce pregnancies, fucking marriages.

I didn't do all this kind of shit. Y'all niggas. Pregnancies? I don't even know how we got this. Amigos. Y'all niggas. Pregnancies. I don't even know how we got this. Amigos in the locks. You explain it why. But the way I know

a nigga can rap for real and does acrobatics with melodies and harmonies and rhythms is if they can dance. We listened to Busta's album last night,

and I was like, bro, the most disturbing thing that I got from this album is knowing that Busta Rhymes can dance. And it's fucking weird. What kind of dance moves? He wasn't dancing, but just knowing that he knows the melodies and rhythms that he was using on the

album, we know he can dance now. And it's weird to even think about Busta Rhymes dancing for real. So you, like, back then you started thinking about him dancing in your mind. Yeah. I was not... I was not like a full-on

fan of knowing Busta Rhymes can dance. And did you call him by his government name? When you... What? Can you imagine Busta Rhymes just busting that out real quick? What the fuck?

No, I don't want to see that, but I know he can do it. Because he showed us the music last night and I was like bro you know how to dance okay flow right or people people about to say you around a lot of Latinos Flo Rida or Pitbull? Pitbull. I was about to say, you around a lot of Latinos. Pitbull? No, no, it's not even that. I feel like Pitbull is a more likable person.

He's a more out there person. What are you saying? Flo Rida's kind of like a blue person? They both home team, though. Flo Rida's kind of reclusive. You know what I'm saying? He kind of like, he comes out when he has a single popping. Right.

Or something's really popping with him. Pitbull is like, Metro Mobile, nigga, like, let's do it. Metro Mobile. What's he ready to do? Right, yeah, let's just do it, bro. Latinos in Miami, nigga, I own a Nathan's, I guess. Let's do it, nigga. Like, let's fucking. Flo Rida's just like, I got a single out, I guess. Let's do it, nigga. Like, let's fucking... Flo Rida's just like,

I got a single out. Y'all like me yet? And fucking Pitbull is like, Nathan's, I guess. Let's do it. They're both good dudes, though. They're both great guys. Flo Rida's a great dude.

They're both great guys, but if I had a big one, I would think of the... the motherfucker that actually want that shit would be seen. All right, 90s or 2000s hip-hop? 90s. No question.

Okay. 90s. Everything was different. Oh, my God. It was great. Wayne or Drake? Why do you do this? Because I want to take a drink.

Wayne or Drake? Wayne. Wayne? You got four? Yeah. We do both. Come on. Okay. I'm going to go PPC. Come on, I got two more questions.

I got PPC. We got two more. Two more and we'll be good. Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. Two more and we'll be good. I'll hold it down. I'll hold it down. I got a drink with you.

Hold on. Yeah, you got- Yeah, I got a drink with you. Wait, are y'all not- Actually not- What is that? What the fuck is- Whiskey and coconut. That's not what that is. Yeah. It's straight up whiskey. It's so good. It's so good. Whiskey and coconut. That's not what that is.

It's so good. That's from Puerto Rico. Some of our people are in Puerto Rico. How can I put my name on that? We're trying to do that. We're trying to make that happen. All right, hold on, hold on. Let me finish this up.

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You're the worst person For who? For you For me? You gotta pick Tallahassee Or Or don't I don't have to pick shit

Babe, what you think? Don't. I don't have the big shit. But what do you think? Yeah, Miami. I respect that. Miami. Thanks a lot for that. Tallahassee seems like more of a responsibility than... I mean, I like Tallahassee for the food. I get to see my old spots. And that's where you're from, right? Yeah, yeah the food. I get to see my old spots.

And that's where you're from, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get to see my old spots. I actually went by my old house the last time we was in Tallahassee. I don't let people know when I'm in Tallahassee. So I go all the time. I go all the fucking time,

and I never let anybody know. You said something that was ill just now. You said Tallahassee reminds you of responsibilities You said Tyler Hassey reminds you of responsibilities. Tyler Hassey reminds me of responsibilities. You know, that's why I can't really go to New York. When I go to New York. Shut up. There's so many people that call me, and I'm an idiot.

I'm the guy that always picks up. Yeah. I'm an idiot, so I always. Stupid. Yeah, it's very true. It's very true. But I just can't, because I just can't have somebody say, yo, I called you, and you ain't answer. Because I ain't scared of nobody, so I ain say, yo, I called you and you ain't answer

Cuz I ain't scared of nobody Loving people that you are called you an answer. Yeah That's it. I'm just fucking telling you something. Yeah, I'm going to start taking your advice. OK, keyboards or drums? Keyboards or drums? Drums. How do you? Future or TI?

Hold, wait, no. No, no, no. Oh, we loaded. Oh, you're doing this. Yeah. No, he's doing it. No. No, no, no. Not the questions. Oh, the blood, you're doing this. Yeah. No, he's doing it. No. No, no, no.

Not the questions. Oh, the blunt. Yeah, yeah. We here. We here. We here. We loaded up. You want one, T-Pain?

Give me your glasses. You want one, T-Pain? No, I just want these glasses. No, I'm talking about blunt. No, no, no. I don't smoke. I don't smoke. Okay.

You don't smoke? No. Thank you, brother. That was a good time for us. That was a good Tom Ford. That was a good Tom Ford. That was a Tom Ford, right? These are uneven. Why did you immediately turn into like Stevie Wonder-like?

Okay. Oh, shit. What happened? I go to the bathroom. You came back to Stevie Wonder. So, first of all, y'all niggas need to accommodate this right now. How you gonna accommodate this?

Nah, I don't, nah, I'm not a dick. Either. Yo, so listen. You wanted me here. So what? No, no, no, no, no. Nah, you just look really cool. And I thought I was.

I thought I was. Oh, that was awesome. That was fun. I think a T-Pain got a heart. So what was the problem? I thought I was going to look as cool as you, and it didn't work out. No, you was looking cool.

But what was the problem with you in future? At one point. Oh, the problem with me in future, it was never a problem. Okay. It was Khaled's problem. Khaled's problem. It was a Khaled problem.

What do you mean? So when they put out, I woke up in a new Bugatti. I woke up in a new Bugatti. Yeah. They had posted my Bugatti in their shit like, I got a new Bugatti. And I was just like. That's yours? You know what it was like?

You know what it was like when your homeboy got a Tinder date in the apartment? I'm too old to know Tinder dates. A Tinder one? I know there's a date in that. I know there's a date in that. A Tinder or Tinder? Tinder is a date in that. Those two different, those, that changes.

Tinder or Tinder? You're talking about the app, right? Yes. Okay. I thought he said Tinder date. He could also be talking about Tinder-oni. No, I could not be talking about that. Okay, I was trying.

You don't... Go ahead. A Tinder date, if somebody got a Tinder date and your homeboy got on your shirt that you use for Tinder dates... I don't know where this is going. What the fuck? If you're going on a date...

Uh-huh. And you ask your homeboy, can I borrow your shirt to go on a date, right? And then your homeboy shows up at the date and says, hey, nice shirt. Looks real fucking familiar. And boom.

That's how the whole future... Wait, do that again? Boom. That's how the whole future being started. That's how the whole thing started. With Callen? That's how the whole future beat started. That's how the whole thing started. With Callen? That's how the whole thing started with me and Future. Everybody think me and Future...

Future wore your shirt? No, he was sitting there, he was... At a titty date? On a titty date, he wore your shirt? I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you. I'm fucking with you. I'm totally fucking with you.

Everybody thinks it was like a big thing. Everybody thinks it was, like, a big thing. Everybody thinks it was, like, a Me and Future, like, fart or something. I mean, no, but it was literally, like, you sat in my Bugatti. In my Bugatti. And then you said it was yours. And then I told people that it wasn't yours, And that was the end of it. And it...

He got mad. I mean, he didn't get mad. Future don't... First of all, Future don't get mad. He don't get mad. Future never gets mad. He says, good day, lovely. Enjoy. Enjoy.

So, Future never gets mad. But the thing that kicked off the whole thing Enjoy. Enjoy. Enjoy. Yeah, that was awesome. That was awesome. So, Future never gets mad. But the thing that kicked off the whole T-Pain on Future, it was like, oh, that's a cool fucking car. Cool fucking car you're in right there. Looks real familiar. From my post.

And then he was like... What was he like? What was he like? What was he like, Payne? What did he do? That was it. I did it. What did he do? He ignored the whole thing.

He ignored the whole shit. He was just like, yep. Cool car. And so, it's like, yep, cool car. And so it was like, oh, you're not gonna acknowledge my shit? All right, everybody shut it down! Everybody, that's my fucking car! DJ Khaled paid me three grand to use my car.

Everybody, everybody shut it down! And then Khaled hit me like, that's what you're doing? That's what you're doing? And I was like, yeah, bro, you said that that car was his. And I didn't have anything to do with it. He was like, look back at the video. And I looked back at it and I was like, okay, you didn't say it, but okay, so

when you... Okay, I don't have a rebuttal for this, but still, you, when you said, and I was a bad friend, bro. I was like the worst fucking friend. Like of all time, I was the worst fucking friend ever.

And Kata was like, take it back. Take it back. Take the pose down. Take the pose down. And I was like, take it back. I kind of still stand by what I said. So, I didn't take it down. But the crazy thing was,

I had the fuzziest picture of all time. And I was like, it's crazy how the new T-Pain, because people was calling Future the new T-Pain. That's what I thought it was about. Okay. People was calling Future the new T-Pain because people was calling Future the new T-Pain. That's what I thought it was about. Okay. People was calling Future the new T-Pain. I was like, it's crazy how the new T-Pain got to use the old T-Pain, Bugatti, in a picture

that he's talking about. So the picture I used was not Future. It was fucking Ace Hood. It was Khaled's catalyst artist and I was like I don't even know if I keep talking about he's like just use my artist in a fucking smear campaign I was like I don't know what you're talking about

I picture you with two cups of Hennessy don't know what you're talking about. And I can't give you power right now. You can't do nothing with us? You can't do nothing? So the whole thing was miscommunication. And this is why me and Cali, to this day, don't fuck with each other. Oh, damn. Breaking news.

Drink chance. We didn't know that. We didn't know that. So, because that, all right, the woman was. I don't know why we clap for that. Yeah, don't clap for that. We clap for anything out here. Oh, oh, yeah, niggas do not like each other.

Clap for that. Clap for that. Because the rumor was, the rumor was, you know, you and Kyler made all this great music together, then Future became the hot artist, or was coming, and then so people painted that narrative as if it was a beef between y'all, because, and so that's

the, I'm glad. There was a beef between us, but it was on some, um... He had on your shirt. I didn't fuck with what he was doing. It was like, when we met up at, um, at the BET Awards. You and Future?

Me, Future, Khaled, everybody. Khaled was like, we're going to do this shit for the internet. And I'm like, I don't do anything for the internet. Do what for the internet? Squash? Just anything. Just anything. Just anything we do, we're going to do it for the internet.

And I'm like, I don't fuck with the internet like that. And he was like, but you got to. And I'm like, I don't think I have to. And he was like, but that's what makes us money. And I'm like, I think I have enough money. I think I do. You're like, I'm comfortable. And he was like, cool,

I'm going to do this here for my money. I mean, honestly, the nigga has a $65 million fucking mansion and I'm sitting

in a fucking $6 million mansion. So it's like, better than most. I get it, but I'm not about to do the antics.

Right. And he like, shunned me for that. He was like... Call it. You don't want to... You don't want to make more money? And I'm like, I don't think...

I don't think so. And then I stopped, and he was like, got you. I'm going to make everybody else more money. And then we did the... He didn't literally tell you that. You felt that vibe. Wow.

That's a little cold. Don't stop it. Don't stop it. Don't stop it. Don't stop it. Yeah, it wasn't... It wasn't said directly. But it was...

You know. Wow. We know the... You fucking know. No, I don't know. I swear to God. Yeah, you do. No, I don't know. I swear to God. Yeah, you do. No, I don't know.

You've had this shit happen to you a million times. No, I've had the situation happen. I didn't have this, what you're talking about. I didn't know. Because I'm just a Twitter follower, too. Like, you know what I mean? So when they saying that shit, yeah, I swear to God. When they saying that, yeah, I swear to God.

I really don't know. Everyone thinks I'm the FBI. Like, I know everything. I really don't know. Everyone thinks I'm the FBI. Like, I know everything. I really don't. This nigga the police. I really don't know everything, but I try to. And so, y'all good? This nigga is making the best sounds.

Go ahead. All right, cool, cool. So y'all haven't spoke since, you and Khaled. We spoke a lot. I've talked to Khaled'all haven't spoke since, you and Khaled. We spoke a lot. I've talked to Khaled a lot. I've cried in front of Khaled. I've cried because I was like, these niggas, because

remember, 99 Jams. Yes, 99 Jams. You would do a record with Khaled to get more plays on 99 Jams. This is the Chico. When he left 99 Jams, I was talking to him like, bro, these niggas ain't your friends. These niggas do not like you. These niggas is literally trying to get spins on 99 Jams.

And I was like, bro, I'm the only nigga that really fuck with you. And he was like, cool. I like that. And I was like, all right I like that. And I was like, you know what? I couldn't do anything, you can't do anything about it. If a nigga's content with where they are and how people interact, what are you gonna do? What do you do?

You can't do anything about that. No. I feel like we should just take a shot, just take a shot. Oh, wait. He don't even know the shot. Oh, that wasn't supposed to be? I just feel like it.

Just kind of, very quick. Good, good, good, good, good, good. OK. He's gone. Hold on, hold on. Let's take it back real quick. Oh, that was a, oh, that was a, that was a question a second ago.

Oh, shit. No more questions, no more questions. We got to shout out the Organic Food Kings. Oh, that was a question a second ago. Oh, shit. No more questions. No more questions. Shout out to Organic Food Kings. Oh, yes. I just ate some of the guys' food. It's incredible. We got the truck outside at Organic Food Kings. Make sure you check them out. Yeah, that's right.

We're going to be eating them all the time right now. I feel like we need more questions. Nah, let's talk about TJ's DJs. No, too late. Too late. Come on. TJ's DJs. Yeah, man. Okay, late. Come on, come on. TJ's DJs. Let's take it back.

Yeah, man. Okay, okay, I'm good with that. You fuck with TJ still? I fuck with TJ still because he told me what happened. What? Something happened? Yeah. That's the ghost of...

Say something in a row. A row. Yeah. It's the ghost of Christmas past. That should sound like a whole new era happened. Now, me and my boys, we used to go to TJ's DJ's, being Florida guys. And you still should. And the moon and all that.

You still should. And you still should. Right. So, TJ, I'm going to give you the short of it. All right, let's go. TJ and my dad made a plan to steal my money. What? Oh, man, I wasn't ready for this. Yeah, you were. I was plan to steal my money. What? Oh, man, I wasn't ready for this.

Big up, TJ. TJ and my dad made a plan to take all my shit, and then when I didn't follow through with it, they called me a fuck nigga. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, did you want that? Oh, that's not what you wanted?

Oh, that's not what you wanted? I didn't know this shit, bro. Oh, that's not what you wanted? No, I didn't care. So my dad promised TJ a certain amount of money when I made it. Right. And TJ still feels like I owe him that money without telling me about the plan. Oh, did y'all want? Your pops was managing you?

Yeah, my pops was my manager For a long time And he said When I make him A certain amount of money You gonna get some of this too And I had nothing to do with that And TJ still feels like I owe him that money

Wow Is that Is that No I didn't know none of that Okay Wow No that's deep Calm down We got I was gonna say Take a shot But I didn't know none of that. Okay. No, that's deep. We got it.

I was going to say take a shot, but I don't think we should take a shot for that. I don't think we should take a shot for that. Oh, yeah. I don't think we should take a shot for that. Let's think of another reason to take a shot. Oh, you know what? I mean, he's not going to know, but you did the video rap song, right? Remember that?

No, he don't remember that. I do. I do. I do remember that. Yeah. You remember being around South Beat Records at one point? Yes, absolutely. I was the VP of marketing for South Beat.

Okay, you got to stop. Oh, you had Jim Johnson? No, no, I left, he came in. Oh, you was on the outside. Yeah, I was on the outside. I didn't like the vibe. You didn't have Jim Johnson. No, I left, I left.

I didn't like, you know, that was the porn company. You didn't have Jim Johnson. No, I left. I left. I didn't like, you know, that was the porn company. You didn't have Jim Johnson. But you had fucking the vibe. But that's not my point. My point is, I was managing a group, signed to South Beat at the time, Mayday. South Beat was. Listen, listen to me real quick. Drunk Pain.

Because of you, there was a small cameo that Mayday did in that video that got them signed to Tech N9ne and Strange Music. And it was all due to being in that video. What video? Sent me an email? Rap song. No way! So thank you. So thank you.

That didn't turn out good. What didn't turn out good? That song? Right. Oh, no. But they got a deal. So thank you. You can get niggas deals and you ain't turn out good. What didn't turn out good? That song? Right. Oh, no, but they got a deal, so... They got a deal. You can get niggas deals, and you ain't even know it.

All right. No, but that was a dope video. You tried to do something dope. It was backwards, right? What was the crazy thing in that video? Something crazy about that video. I don't know. Everything was backwards in that video.

Okay, so let's just move on, right? Not now. You made a song. We got to move on. In New York, back in the days in New York, we wouldn't even go to a strip club, right? We wouldn't even. Really?

Y'all niggas got the best strip clubs. Now, but hold on. What? No way. No way, man. This is crazy. Calm the fuck down. Let him have his talk. You ain't stopping no other part of the interview. New York does not have the best strip clubs. Y'all ain't stopping no. Calm the fuck down. Let him have his talk.

Suze. Suze. You ain't stopping no other part of the interview. You're just not having the best of fun. You ain't stopping no other part of the interview. Don't stop him now. Suze is crazy. Suze is crazy.

Suze is crazy now. Suze is crazy. Better than Miami? You would get shot here, too. Listen. Listen. Bro, Suze is crazy. I refuse.

I refuse. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. So at this time, especially the Especially the east coast The east coast is Definitely looking at Strip clubs And strippers And people who go there

As like Just totally off limits You come out with a song You in love With a stripper This is the first time Like for lack of a better term This is the first time

Like Sucka for Love's Guys had a That was Eddie Giggs' Theme song right there. Yeah. He eat mad ass because of this song right now, to this day. So what made you...

No way. So what made you say I'm going to be in love with a stripper and make a song about it? It was a joke. It was literally a joke. You fucking think his life's up to you, it? It was a joke. It was literally a joke. You fucked niggas' lives up, T-Gan. I was 15.

You fucked niggas' lives up. A lot of people's lives are fucked up. I was 15. Was you in love with a stripper at 15? No, I wasn't. I was making fun of my homeboy. Okay. We went to our first strip club,

and my homeboy was talking to a chick like, I don't even know why you're in here. I can take care of you. I can... Hey, look, baby. Hey, look, baby. Hey, look, baby. I can fucking get you out of here, baby. You ain't never gonna have to work in here a day of your life ever again.

A 15-year-old son. Yeah. He was like, bro, hey, look, I can get you out of here. I can make sure you ain't never got to answer no questions again. You ain't got to do no interviews. You ain't got to do nothing. I'm going to make you the star of our city. It's Tallahassee.

I'm not even the star of my city. I'm from Tallahassee. He ain't telling this bitch that, bro, I'm going to make you the star of my city I'm from Tallahassee He ain't telling this bitch Bro I'm gonna make you the star of our city Bro This nigga Not only

Didn't make her the star of the city He's trying to figure out What we talking about right now Like It's not even, bro. He did not do that. So he was in love with a stripper and then you, he was in love with a stripper and we,

and the song was making fun of him. The song was like, the next day I was like, bro, I'm in love with him. Like I was making fun of him. And then Big Boy, Big Boy from OutKast walked in the room because we was recording at Stankonia. Love the floss. That's crazy.

Love the floss. It wasn't for the floss. Oh, no. That's a floss. We was recording. That's still the funny sound. So we was recording this thing on here. Big boy walked in, and I was making a joke like,

I mean, you stupid idiot. And then big boy walked in and was like, that's a motherfucking hit. And I was like, yes, sir. Yes, it is. Yes, sir. You saved us. Yes, sir.

I was very serious about everything I was recording a second ago. That's a whole song for you? Yes. Yep. Yes, it is. And everything I was saying before today, I was serious about it. So, absolutely. Everything was because Big Boy said we...

From OutKast. Yeah. Okay, so I got a couple more questions and we're going to wrap it up. All right. Everything was because Big Boy said We From OutKast Yeah Okay so I got a couple more questions And we're going to wrap it up Alright but You think I wanted to wrap this up? I felt like your people was But okay

If you're good with it I'm good with it So look Let me ask you though Okay Akon has you and Lady Gaga? So you knew Lady Gaga Before she was Lady Gaga?

No Oh no I never met Lady Gaga Never met Lady Gaga? Wait, you thought he knew her as Gaga? I thought, that's what I Googled. I mean, I didn't know. I didn't know. Akon was just signing everybody to get the signing bonuses.

Really? You know what you know. Like the labor game? You know what, but you act so surprised. You're like, oh, I'm signing. This is crazy. You act so surprised. You're like, oh, I'm sharing. This is crazy. Oh, y'all niggas get signing bonuses?

That's crazy. Yeah, Akon signed all of us for signing bonuses, bro. And then didn't do a goddamn thing. Like, the whole time. You know what a fucking signing bonus is. And you got to pay it back you stupid idiot. Like, you know what I mean?

Ain't no bonus about it. Right. It was just advance money. Oh, really? So you and Akon wasn't homies? None of that? We were at first,

absolutely. At first? Yeah, me and me. You were a rapper, right? You was down with Nappy. Rapper turned singer. Nappy Heads. Nappy Heads.

Rapper turned singer. Really? Yeah. So he signed you as a rapper or he signed you as a... He signed me as a writer. Because he was writing his shit. Nappy Heads. Nappy Heads. I'm a turn singer. Really? Yeah. So he signed you as a rapper or he signed you as a? He signed me as a writer. Because he was writing his shit? I was writing crazy.

The first song I wrote for Akon was I'm Sprung. And he said, we don't do, he, verbatim, I'm not exchanging words for words. He said, we don't do records for bitches. And then I made I'm Sprung. I made I'm Sprung. He said, we don't do records for bitches. And then I made I'm Sprung. I made I'm Sprung and he said we don't do records because he had Soul Survivor.

That locked up. He had Soul Survivor at the time. I see where he's at. I'm Soul Survivor. With Jeezy. He was the most gangster nigga alive. So he said to me, we don't do records for bitches. And I did, I was wrong.

And I'm like, I'll take it to, I'll take it to somebody in Tadassi that'll play it. I took it to somebody in Tadassi that played it. Fucking Melina Fox. She fucking killed it. She played it at fucking three in the morning. But Akon is this big star. Why do you even listen to him?

Why the fuck would I listen to him? Sorry, my bad. I mean, you would think that. But he wanted me because I had something different. He wanted me because I did something different. You believed in what you was writing I knew what the fuck I did I had a group

I was in a group of 11 motherfuckers And I'm the one that got noticed Out of that group You was in the first Wootay? Maybe The Tallahassee Wootay So we had The Nappy Heads We had the Nappy Heads.

That's why. We had the Nappy Heads, and we was all grouped up in 11 motherfuckers. But if I was the only one that got noticed out of that, something had to be crazy. And we were talking to Akon out of that group. How did you meet Akon? I hung up on him. That's how you meet him? That's an interesting way to meet someone. Yeah? I hung up on him. That's how you meet him? That's an interesting way to meet someone.

Yeah, I hung up on him. He hit me like, yo. Nice to meet you. Like, yo, it's Akon. I'm going to, like, why? Bro, I got a flip phone, my nigga. Like, you think Akon called him in with a flip phone, though? Like, real shit?

Akon called him in with a flip phone? It was a cranky anchor Oh yeah Oh yeah This is super real Akon calling me on the flip phone Oh yo Oh my god

Alright appreciate it bro Snoop Fuck you bro Those are jerky boys Right But he kept calling back Wow He kept calling back

And he was like Bro Straight up I'm Maka Straight up I'm Maka Got a gas station in my house Straight up I'm Maka Yeah how do you believe that So

I was like Um Alright Okay cool So I covered your song You trying to sue me Some shit

He told you this No I covered his song because he had... Oh, you covered his song. At the time he had locked up and I did fucked up. Right, right, right. And I was like, all right, cool. What's popping there?

So how did it go? I'm fucked up. Yeah, it literally went that way. I'm fucked up. Know what I'm talking about. Know what I'm talking about. I'm fucked up. Know what I'm talking about. Know what I'm talking about, I'm fucked up, know what I'm talking about, ooh. He loved it, he loved it.

He loved it, and he said, yo, you remind me of me, and I'm like, I mean, it's not a compliment, man. Like, like. Oh my God. Damn! Oh my God. So, it was awesome. Because I'm a hood nigga Because I'm a hood nigga.

I'm a hood nigga. You feel me? Bro, I'm in the hood. A famous nigga call you and you like, hey, you should be really excited right now. You like, nigga, I'm from the hood. Shit don't excite me, nigga. Like...

Oh shit. So... So Akon, Akon actually excite me, nigga. Like, so, so, Akon, Akon actually contacts me and he's like, bro, I see the shit

you've been doing. You remind me of me. Let's do it. And I'm like, good story. Cool, I guess. Like,

but, I actually end up doing it. You know what I'm saying? So, I actually end up doing it you know what I'm saying so I actually end up doing it going to his joint which is crazy because I ran away from home to

be with his family with Boo his brother so his brother Boo took me away from home and then end up when I got there his brother Boo took me away from home and then end up, when I got there, his brother Boo got evicted out of his fucking house the night that I fucking got there. As a runaway. You ran away.

So I'm in Atlanta for the first time in my life As a 12 year old 12 years What the fuck Not I mean Young Wait Wait wait wait man

What the fuck How old were you man 12 12 years old Nah I was like I was like 16 when I got there So I got there

But But I got walking Like I I got woken up. I was like, this is my first real cool night of sleep. And then the motherfucking boo and fucking Omar, Akon's brothers, wake me up like hey we gotta fucking go and I'm like what? what's happening?

they was like nothing we just gotta go nothing we just gotta go just get up just get up put on your fucking put on your bunny ears

that you had when you came into some motherfuckers because I had bunny ears on and I was like the dirtiest nigga alive. When they fucking met me, they was just like, everything's cool, just get

everything that you brought and just leave. And I was like, no way. So we got the fuck out of there, and I was like, is the building on fire? And they're like, kinda. And I was like

a little bit we aren't allowed to stay in that place where we were and I was like who look I wasn't allowed to stay in the place I came here from so you know I didn't

like we were getting kicked out of our house the second that they told us that we can come to a better place. And then the second we came to a better place, they were like, we got to get out of here. Shout out to Rich Ass Boo. He rich as shit right now. Shout out to Boo. He's next to Kanye, right? He's next to Kanye.

He's right next to Boo. He's next to Kanye, right? He's next to Kanye. He's right next to Kanye. That nigga said, I can't ask for any shoes. Wait, what? You don't get free Yeezy? He said, because I told our story, don't ask for any more free shoes.

You told what story? What Boo did. Oh, that he got evicted? Or what did he do? I don't even know. Like, what? I don't even know, like, what was the threshold. But at some point, he and my team was like,

don't ever think T-Pain is going to get free Yeezys anymore. And I was like, I didn't want any of them. I want free Yeezys. Like, I'm good. Like, I didn't want. Oh, I got free Yeezys on right now. Hold on. You, I didn't, what do you want? Oh, I got free Yeezys on right now. Hold on, okay. You think I want Yeezys? I'm out here.

I'm out here. Yeah, but I was like, you think I want, You look at you, I don't really know who these, You think I want, like, new sandals for my nigga? Like, oh, okay. Like, I'm good. Like, I didn't, like, Yeezys wasn't, like, a big part of my life.

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It didn't. I never even got invited to the Grammys. I'm lying. I get invited. I didn't win. Yeah, you lied. I didn't win. You lied hard. I didn't win and I never went back.

You're not. You're not going to win. I can't stand a war shirt. You're not going to win because you're black. Oh, damn. I won because I was with, at the time, the safe black person. Kanye. Kanye was the safe black person.

Jamie Foxx was the safe black person. Just like The Weeknd. The Weeknd is going to win so many Grammys in the next few years because he's the safe black person. But I feel like he get the highest out of everybody you know why why because it's safe black you mean high what do you mean high high like drogas i think droga i like you think you think you think you think i think weak is high in the future you think the weekend you think the weekend makes grammy nominated music yes right now yeah okay yeah the future. You think The Weeknd makes Grammy-nominated music? Yes. Right now? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Because of... Because he's a safe black person? Is that a true question? Do you know back in the days he didn't know how to arrange music? There was like a guy that was like you gotta have a verse and a hook and then... But don't

us all start like that? We all... No. You knew how to arrange music. Oh, did you know how to not arrange? You didn't know how to arrange? No, no, he didn't. No, I didn't.

No, I didn't. No, I keep it real. I just knew how to rap. And so I didn't know how to... I didn't know... I didn't know hooks. Who taught you? So you made classics for black people...

Yes. ...without knowing how to make classics for- What? That's how I counted bars. I'm going to fuck you up. That's how for the internet. Please don't. Okay, I get that. I understand that. But you got to understand what a safe black person is.

Okay. We didn't have that until The Weeknd. Okay. The Weeknd is a safe black person. You telling me Drake ain't safe? No, no, because he's talking. One, he says niggas. And white people can't sing long-term lyrics.

The Weeknd is the safest black person we have right now. How about Rihanna? Does she have to do music? Or is she making makeup? She running around with A$AP Rocky. They looking good out there. Let's make some noise for them. Let's make some noise.

They're going to House of Mac. They went to make some noise. They're going to House of Mac. They went to House of Mac. They're going to House of Mac. That was hard. They went to the hood out here. Who's the billionaire in the relationship? Come on. You already know.

I mean, so, yeah, we already know. So, who are we looking at in that relationship? Shots? Was that shots? Yeah, yeah. I'll take a shot for that. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. We're taking shots or we're doing shots? Yeah,. I'll take a shot for that. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We're paying his money. Shots or we're doing shots? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both. It's a both. Let's go. Let's go.

But I don't like the fact that you're pouring your cup from there. You're supposed to pour from the bottle. I feel like I... No, no. He's good from that cup. I'm just prepared. No, you're good from that cup. Cheers.

Cheers. Is that a shot? It's a chill shot. No, no. He's sipping. He's sipping. Let him sip. Mm-hmm.

Mm. Woo! What? Are we legit counting Rocky as a billionaire's boyfriend? I mean. Are we saying Rocky is a billionaire boyfriend? Why does it matter? I believe so. Why does it matter? What does it matter? I believe so. But why does it matter? What does it matter?

Because we do that to women. We do that to women. When we say a woman married a billionaire, now she's a billionaire. Are we counting Rocky as a billionaire right now? Fuck yeah. No, he's not a billionaire. I'm thinking he's a millionaire. Yes, he is.

In my mind, he from Harlem. Fuck it, he from New York City. I got to help Rep. Wilmer. Okay, I don't... I mean, I think you guys are taking it to a whole other level. Yeah, I'm not. I'm trying to make great conversation. I'm not doing that.

I'm not doing that. I'm not a Rep. Wilmer. I don't think Rocky is a billionaire. I think Rocky deserves it. I think he deserves it. I mean, I don't think it has to do anything with the money part of it, though. First of all, Rocky can fuck whatever he wants. Right.

That nigga can fuck a porcupine right now, and we'd be like, yeah, that seems like Rocky. I didn't think about that. We didn't think about that right now. Yeah, I wasn't either, but that's a whole different podcast. But if we think about it, if we think about it, and we like, who's Rocky fucking right now? We haven't thought about that.

I think he had a Kardashian once. Did he? We haven't thought about that. But when we... I think he had a Kardashian once. But when we see it... Yeah, he had a Kardashian. But when we see it... Yeah, he had a Kardashian. When we see it and we like... That sounds terrible.

He had a Kardashian. Yeah, he had a Kardashian. Yeah. But when we see Rocky fucking somebody, we like, yeah, that man can... Yeah, he fucks. Are we not? Is that weird? Yeah, let, he fucks. Are we nice? Is that weird?

Yeah, let me tell you something. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I'm so sorry. Hey, man, hopefully they just happy-ass people together and join each other. Bro, they're so happy. That's all that matters. They're so happy. They're so happy that Rocky almost beat up a motherfucker

for taking a bad picture. That's it. I would respect that. Any kicks. That's it. All right, any kicks. Yeah. They happy.

They got to be, you got to be happy to go off on a motherfucker for like... Taking a bad picture. That wasn't dope. That wasn't dope. I mean, but you also got to be

kind of insecure about that too. Let me ask you, T-Pain. Do you eat ass? Say that again? Do you eat ass? With the grills on? Sober? Preferably not sober.

Oh, no. I eat ass. You got to ask this young lady over here. Oh, my God. I don't think you can. I eat the ass. I eat the ass. That's a new song. That's a new song going out. I eat the ass. I eat the ass. That's a new song. That's a new song going down.

I eat the ass. I eat the ass. You got to add Melania. Melania. That's the eating ass guy. That's the reason why. Good, good stuff. I do, I do, I do.

Is that some Florida shit? It's like, it just comes to mind. Yes, yes. Yo, yes. Man, I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass.

I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I'm going to eat the ass. I. That's the reason why. Good, good stuff. I do, I do, I do. Is that some Florida shit? It's like, it just comes to me. Yes, yes, yes. Straight up. Florida.

Booty gang. Florida is not ashamed of anything, bro. I don't understand why it's on some Florida shit to eat pussy. Like, we eat pussy, bro. on some Florida shit to eat pussy. We eat pussy, bro. We eat pussy, we eat ass, everything.

I don't know why Florida... It's a buffet. I don't know why Florida has been coined the freaky state. You're right. We just talk about it. That's it. We talk about it.

Maybe everything needs to be private. But no. or shit like, you know what I'm saying? No, we just talk about it. That's it. We talk about it. Oh, maybe everything needs to be private. But no, there's podcasts, there's fucking radio stations. Everybody just needs to be open about this shit. We eat ass, bro.

It's just, it's all right. Ass, ass cast. It's okay. The ass cast. Bro, we just need to be open about this. I don't know why everybody seems like they need to just be like,

oh no, this is a private thing. This is... Yo, I knew. I knew T-Pain was gonna kill us. You thought I was gonna not do it. Just in case you don't know, you're one of my favorite personalities. Bro, I'm going there.

Did you see my wife over here? Get her ass in here. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be crazy. We're sorry. We're sorry. We're sorry. No, this is a real thing. This is a normal fucking thing.

Why the fuck do it? Just because we from Florida, we have to hide. What do you mean just because? We are Florida. I get it. We have to hide the fact that we fucking love sensual shit? Like, we have to hide the?

Bro, don't kink shame, bro. Don't kink shame, bro. Don't kink shame, bro. I feel like that's your foreplay right there. You got me, man. No, Geek Chamber. You thought this was going to be a motherfucking regular episode. This shit fucked you up.

This fucked your ass up. Also, because, like, for lack of a better term, right, you have these records. Like, we said Akon doesn't make records for girls, at least at that time. But you have, again, we're from I'm from the 90s of New York. We're buying even

buying a girl a drink. It's kind of corny. First of all, let me swear to God, I am the simpiest nigga that has ever been on this motherfucking show. Simpiest? Simpiest. I've never heard that. You've never heard that word? I'm scared to ask what that means. Simpiest, you said? Simpiest. I've never heard that. You have never heard that word?

Yeah, I'm scared to ask what that means. Simpiest. Is that like simple? Simp. Like a simp nigga. Like a dummy? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that helps too.

Yeah. That's a part of it. I'm a simp, bro. Like, I'm a simp. I will fucking do anything for somebody to fucking like me. Like, I would fucking do anything for somebody to fucking like me. Like I would literally, I mean that sounds crazy. You saying that because that's how you

directly buy you a drink? That's how you, because you wanted people to like you? Yeah, like what, like, you know what I'm saying? Like buy you a drink is like, hey, you can fuck with me, but you want to get drunk? And I'll eat your ass. I'm going to eat your ass

at some point. Like, I know you don't fuck with me, but you do like alcohol. You do like alcohol. How can we make this work in these terms? But you know what I'm saying?

It's awesome. I get it, but we're going to make this work. So you bought him a drink? Bought him a drink. Alcohol works more than water? Oh yeah.

You know what's funny? Alcohol works more than water. I can think of two times this worked for me. First of all, I met my wife that way. I sent her some sangria. Boom! And, yeah, I sent her some sangria. She walked over to thank me,

and 15 years later, we're still together. Big time! What's up? Yeah, me and my wife were 18 years. Okay, God, we're right behind you. So, but the other day... But the other day... I didn't say anything.

I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. I just fingered her. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. But the other day... Relax. But the other day... And love finger popping stories too. It's weird, it's weird, it's weird. I always ask about you finger popping? I always just heard the fact that you. This is where finger popping goes wrong.

Goes wrong. But the other day, the other day, he did a machine gun finger pop. But the other day, I'm in ZZ's. You're there? And Derek Jeter

walks in. Derek Jeter. And I sent him a drink and he just co-signed our interview. He said he's going to do it the first week. So buying a drink

does work. It does work. It does work. I sent him a drink. He's worth $600 million. Absolutely. But y'all should know what it was. He sent me a drink. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, little, it does work. It does work. I sent him a drink, he's worth 600 million. Absolutely, but you also know what it was. He sent me back the drink. Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. Right, baby? She knows. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. What else? So what else? What else? I else? What else?

I don't know. After that. After that. What the fuck? Why would that be the... Okay. You got the Louis Vuitton mask? I'm trying to change the subject.

But no, I haven't heard Be Around Me. And knowing that what I did was like a normal thing and just being married for 18 years, it's... Married for 18 years. Married for 18 years. That's incredible. Me and my wife have been together 15 years, but we've only been married 10.

Yes. Say it. Being married for 18 years you um you know what the jokes are you know i'm saying especially like you know because uh on on on on my podcast no problem yeah yeah on my podcast and that radio podcast we have a comedian that uh she she talks about her husband all the time. And, you know, she says, my husband likes it at the jokes. At the jokes.

The jokes, it stops at the jokes. That doesn't make sense to you? No, I don't know what you're talking about. The husband stops it at the jokes. Like, if you're doing it for entertainment, cool. Don't bring that shit into the bedroom. Right, right. You know what I'm saying?

Don't bring that shit to where we are. But my wife, my wife, she... Cool as shit, by the way. She is cool as shit. Cool as shit. Just every interaction that anybody has with her, she's cool as shit. Just every interaction that anybody has with her, she's cool as shit. She wasn't even supposed to wear that shit that she's wearing,

but she saw me wearing lime green, and she was like, I want to match you a little bit. Aw, one, two, three, two, three. Yeah. Aw. Aw. Aw. It wasn't even like a planned thing.

She was like, I just want to, if you're going to be fucking Earthgang as fuck, we need to... I'm taking a shot today. She was like, you know, she's my earth, wind, and fire. Let me ask you. Is it hard because...

Yes, it may hurt. I've never... And I've been platinum. I've been platinum, but I've never been... I've never been... Excuse me. Excuse me, my bad. I got platinum in four gold albums.

Oh, excuse me. Excuse us. Excuse us. But let me be clear. Let me show you respect. I've never been T-Pain hot. Like, for real. Like, at one point...

Let me give you your flowers. Let me give you your flowers. At one point, it was really... Like, if you got a T-Pain record, it was like Hype Williams. Like, Hype, at one point, let me give you your flowers. Let me give you your flowers. At one point, it was really, like, if you got a T-Pain record, it was like Hype Williams. Like, Hype Williams at one point, if you had a Hype Williams video, you would just,

if you had a T-Pain record, and I also want to thank you because you gave me a record, too, at your height, and you didn't, like, you didn't even give a fuck. Was it that bad, though? No.

You did? It was amazing. It was amazing. What are you talking about? We got it back. No, no, no, no, no. I don't got it on me. I got it in my email. No, but let me pick you was amazing. What are you talking about? No, no, no. I don't got it. I got it in my email.

Let me pick you up. Let me pick you up. I want to hear this. I want to hear this. Because this was at your height, and I'm talking about, like, it was incredible. And I remember me reaching out to you. I remember you being in contact with me,

and you sending it on time, everything. And I'm just like, this guy. And shout out to Roger. I don't know if you remember Roger Ryder. Roger Ryder! I was saying to myself, this guy... You definitely fucking got it. That's my homie.

I remember just saying, how are you so humble? At the highest of your height. I know for a fact that there's somebody... I didn't take the shot. I'm sorry. Can you take your shot, too?

Let's take a motherfucking shot. Come on, let's all take a shot. You want my water? No, no, you got what you got. Now you got what you got in your cup. You got it. Come on, come on. We're celebrating you tonight.

You don't even know more drinks. Our show is about celebrating the artists, and we're celebrating you the motherfucking night. Cheers. Come on. You got your cup. You got your cup. Now he got his cup. He's got his cup. He's got his cup. Where's Come on. You got this cup. Yeah, you got this cup. Come on. Now he got his cup. He's got his cup.

He's got his cup. Did they take the bottle from you? This is the first time I remember. Yo, he no more, bro. All right, cool. Hey! Big up to Angel and Racky, goddammit. Yeah, Chi Chi.

Salud. Chi Chi, get the yeah, yo. I'm going to fuck you up. Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud.

Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud. Salud. Sal'ma fuck you up. Deja de ver. Deja de ver. Dale, cabrón. Dale, cabrón. Dale, cabrón. Oh, my God. You making a real drink. We taking a shot. You know you just came back from the.

Dale, cabrón. Dale, cabrón. I told you a long time ago. Salud. Salud. Tony. Salud. Yo, yo, this is to you, T-Pain. I ain't got up. I told you a long time ago. Salute, salute. Tony.

Salute. Yo, yo, this is to you, T-Pain. We celebrate people's career. We celebrate. And let me just tell you something. You changed the face of music. This whole game would not be the same without T-Pain. You know, you did that too, though, right? No, no, no, it's about you today.

But you know about us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, okay. It's about you today. Okay. Yo, you changed. And let me just tell you something, bro. And you held me down.

I don't know if you knew this, but you was the hottest on the planet, and I called you. You answered, first off, which was amazing. I was like, really? And you was on time. You sent me a verse,

and I really, really want to thank you. Like, I think the only people, like, that held me down was you. I had a little drive. It was you, Todd Dollar Signs, and Mustard. I always want to thank y'all for that shit. Y'all was hot, hot. I would've

ignored my call. I'm being honest. I would've ignored me. Man, you a real one for that, man. I really want to thank you, my brother. I really want to thank you. I'm here for everybody, here. And you're a real one for that, man. I really want to thank you, my brother. I really want to thank you. I'm here for everybody, bro. Salute.

Salute, bro. God damn it. I knew this was going to be a great episode. I'm here for everybody. Yes. I'm here for everybody. I know what it feels like to be ignored, missed, saluted. Sidelined. Sidelined. Sidelined. Ignored. Missed. Saluted. Sidelined.

Sidelined. I know what it feels like. And I will never make anybody feel like that. I will never put anybody through that. I can't. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Right. I don't get the, I don't get, I don't understand relevancy.

Right. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I, bro, you like T-Pain? You got to like T-Pain. Regardless of what year it is. You know? Can I say something real quick?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You went to an Xbox event. I forget the year, but it was the first year that Drink Champ started. That was... You've been our most aggressive guest. No, no, no. Watch it. And I hung out with you, and I told you, we need you on Drink Champ.

Yep. And then way years later, you hit me on DM like, all right, because of the whole DM. That was the funniest shit. That was the funniest shit. That was the funniest shit. A nigga hit me at the Summer Jam. The Summer Jam we've been talking about? Yeah. A nigga came to me like, bro, when you going to do Drink Champs?

And I'm like, are you the guy? But listen, but listen, but listen. Your fans want you on here. The point is, the point is, year one of Drink Champs, you were on our rate. We needed T-Pain year one of Drink Champs. That makes sense. That makes sense. Just so you know.

Just so you know. Let me just tell you something. You know, I'm a man, so I don't really care about putting myself down. You have a real great personality. So I know your podcast is going to—what's the name of your podcast? Just pick it up. The Nappy Boy Radio Podcast. Nappy Boy Radio Podcast.

This is Nappy Boy Radio live with your boy, T-Pain. Which is an oxymoron because it's not on radio. It's really fucking stupid. It is. Oh, no. That is true. I make sure it's really stupid so people don't actually check it, but...

So is your podcast and Twitch, is that the same thing or no? Kind of. A little bit. I really don't... I sincerely don't draw people to it. Like, I straight up... It's my goal to not draw people to it.

It's because... That makes no sense. I know. I know. It's my goal to not draw people to it. It's because... That makes no sense. I know, I know. And it makes all the sense in the world. I know. Not even that. I know, but on some sense, people see it, and they're like,

I didn't even know I wanted to see this, but I do. It's a drug. Yeah, I didn't even know I wanted to fucking be a part of this, but this is dope. I like it. It's weird. And I don't want to be a part of the, you know, the schedule. You know what I'm saying?

I don't want to be a part of the thing, the whole schedule, the whole. Like the media rollout, like whatever people expect. The media rollout. I'm just like, if you see it, if you find it, thank you. That's what you wanted to be, special. Something special. If you see it and you find it, thank you. If not, you'll see it on somebody else's shit.

That's what I love about podcasts. You can mistakenly listen to radio. You can mistakenly listen to a... You can mistakenly find some shit. You can't mistakenly listen to a. You can mistakenly listen to a mix. You can mistakenly find some shit. You can't mistakenly listen to a podcast. You have to want to find it. You have to, like, when a person say, yo, I was watching your show, I'm like, all right, cool. You're a little selfish.

You know what I'm saying? Because you had to go through, like, you know what I mean? You had to fucking, you had to. You had to fuck with something that we was already fucking with. Yeah, because I'm like, like, the other day, somebody asked me about the Vince Staples episode. So I knew this guy was a real fan because I was like, he said, yeah, I just watched the Vince Staples episode. I said, you couldn't have watched it. He said, oh, excuse me.

I just listened to it. And I was like, oh, okay. Real fan right there. Real fan because he's out there downloading the audio. Right. So, you know, I'm very petty. So I was like, you didn't watch it. Right. You knew the timeline. I knew. I knew. I was like, he's't watch it. You knew the timeline. I knew. I knew. He's a liar right now.

He's a liar. Big liar. And the fan corrected it. So he said, no, no, no, my bad. I watched it. I heard it. And I said, oh, okay. All right, so do you like media?

No. Really? No, I hate media. Like when they report a story on you that's false? Any media. Just any at all. I don't respond to anything whether it be false or true.

Really? I'm just like... But you're media now. Now I'm a part of the media. Now you're a part of the media. You still don't have to like it though. I don't have to. I don't have to.

But I will say my part of it. I will say what I think. I will say what I say. The shit that you, you know, come in contact with, I'm like, okay, that's cool. That may be true. It may not. It may not be. But if it brings me more attention,

okay, I like all of it. I like all of it. But at the same time, it's like... Dude, that's cool. And... Droga. Oh, man. It's not droga.

Don't call me droga. This is medical marijuana. Oh, it's marijuana. I bought this legally. I got a receipt. Mar's not droga. Don't call it droga. This is medical marijuana. Oh, it's marijuana. I bought this legally. Man, what's that about marijuana? I got a receipt. Marijuana. Marijuana.

Why you never smoke? I'm snitching. What happened? I ain't going to lie. That's one thing. When I Googled you and I put T-Pain. You didn't want to snitch it? And they said, and I put T-Pain.

I said, anybody got questions for T-Pain? They said, he said he's going to fully corroborate whatever he says. With offense? No, no. I just don't do it. They said, you and Burrell is corroborating. Like why? Like for what?

You know what I'm saying? Like for what? I don't corroborate. Don't do a crime with T-Pain because T-Pain is folded. Is that okay? No, no, no. Do a crime, but don't include me in it. And then be like.

Is that how you went in the robbery song? Oh, yeah. I had a whole robbery song. It was crazy. Robbery now. Get on the ground. Shut up in the house. Shut up.

I just don't have... I don't have the inclusion you have. So it's like a... Yeah, he's drinking the drugs, but... He's drinking the drugs.

Yeah, he's drinking the drugs, apparently. And... I'm okay. I'm good with that. I'm not gonna... drugs. Yeah, he's drinking the drugs apparently. I'm okay. I'm good with that. You're a citizen though. I'm a citizen. Did he down the whole fucking Jordan shit?

Holy shish kebab. Shut up. Wife, you okay? I feel like she's texting you right nowife, you okay? Wife is good. I feel like she's texting you right now. Are we okay? Get off the show. What are you doing? My whole team was like, bro, stop.

At a point we gotta look to your wife and make sure you're okay. She's a trooper. What are you doing, bro? So is this a bad time for me to ask you to take another shot? It's a definite bad time. No, let's go. Okay. I'm going to pour this.

No way. Hey, stop. You want to pour my shot? No, you're going to pour this into... You're going to pour his shot into your shot? Yeah. And then pour it in his mouth, buddy? No, no, no.

Pour it in his mouth, buddy? I'm not a tequila guy. I'm not a tequila guy. I'm not a tequila guy. I'm not a tequila guy. I'm not a tequila guy. I'm not a tequila guy, but I'm going to make you drink. I'm going to make you drink everything. I'm not a tequila guy, but I'm going to make you drink. Okay, okay.

I drink some of the rock, watermelon flavor. Sure, sure, sure. Fantastic. In your local stores. Yeah. Not one person. Would you like a bottle of one, sir? Not one person. Also, Black Owned by the friend. Yeah, sure, sure. Fantastic. In your local stores. Yeah. Not one person. Not one person. Also, black owned by the friend. Yeah, no, no, no.

Not one person pays you for that. I get it. Who? No, no, no. We just love it. We don't get paid for this. We love this. We're a part of the society. Of course we don't. Come on, T-Pain. Cheers.

Jordan, we're going to get-Pain. Cheers. Jordan, we're going to get you a deal with Jordan. Yo, you're the first one to drink a whole bottle of tequila in Drink Champs history. Jesus, Christmas.

You definitely eat ass tonight. I can guarantee you that. That was going to happen without. That was going to happen without. Mic it, mic it. Mic it, mic it. That was going to happen without. Mike, you're Mike. You might got to go down.

That was going to happen without the fucking Mike. Yo, I love it how T-Pain got drunk and his mic went. All right. What else we got? What else we got? I knew this was going to be one of my favorite episodes. Did you think that? I knew it.

Nah, man. We appreciate you. Nah, we really appreciate you, T-Pain, man. You guys are the worst. We're the worst, but we're the best worst. I promise. You're the best worst. I feel like we gotta take one more shot.

Nah, stop it, man. This is it. This is it. We gotta look to this wife, bro. At some point, we have to look to her, bro. This is the last one. Last one. And this is it.

We got one more. Can we do another shot or no? We got one more question. No more shots. We got one more question. We got one more question. You just gotta finish your drink. But you gotta ask it. shot or no? We got one more question. No more shots. We got one more question.

We got one more question. We just gotta finish this drink. But you gotta ask it. No more shots. No more shots. We got one more question, but you gotta ask it. Are you ready? Remember the last question we asked TJ.

No. You went through. Yeah, every time I ask a question, they went sour, bro. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi. Here we go, here we go. You ready? All right, T-Pain. Are you ready for this? No, nobody's ready for this. I want you to get ready for this, man.

Now, I really don't have a really good question for you, but what do you think the future of Florida music is? Real talk, when it comes to hip-hop, what do you think we have to offer? I think we're going back to what we used to. The beat. Ah! Beat!

Ah! Nah, but you know what? I have something to offer you differently. There's a hybrid of that. There's a hybrid? Yes. It's the dance mixed with the lyrics. Beat.

Ah! Beat. Denzel Curry and City Girls. Yeah. Have a baby. Ooh! Oh. Did I kill that?

Whoa. Did I kill that? Whoa. Did I kill that? Listen, I've been out here 15 years. Whoa. I've been out here 15 years, man. Let's go.

Trick Daddy. No effect on this. Trick Daddy said, you're a flower. Trick Daddy told me the other day, I was at his crib, freshman's day. He said, you're a Florida guy now. He gave me my official Florida card. I got a Florida card.

And actually, you're big Florida, bro. All right, relax. You might have been something. That's what I'm saying. Is that the next thing y'all going? Denzel Curry and City Girls? I'm telling you, man. How's the baby?

I can't just do a record with Denzel Curry. You did. He's hard. Yo, he's the biggest. I just did a record with Denzel Curry. Wait till me and you do. Yo, he's the... He's hard. I just did a record with Denzel Curry. Wait till me and you do a record. It's going to be crazy, bro. I mean...

No. I like that, though. You know, that's... That's something I didn't... Hey, man, I got my two-headed seat. You got to stop, bro. You got to stop. That's something I didn't ask.

What is up with the music? Are you going to keep going with music or are you going to chill? Me, personally? Yeah. I think I'm going to keep going with music or are you going to chill? Me, personally? Yeah. I think I'm going to keep going with music. Sign yourself? You got to do movie shit.

Yeah, you got to be in the movie. I am doing a lot of movie shit. I am doing a lot of movie shit. I am doing a lot of movie shit to where it's like, what the fuck is he doing? I mean, I'm doing a lot of movie shit to where it's like, what the fuck is he doing? I mean, I'm doing a lot of power shit. Power? You in power? I might be in power. Breaking news, breaking news, breaking news.

You are in power, let's just say that. I might be in power. Might be are. But this is like the joint to where I can move. You know what I'm saying? So acting is another thing. Acting is another thing, but also... With the weird tongue

shit you just did, but cool. I love this shit. I really love my job You gotta stop doing the shit You're a part of it You're a part of it I really love my job, man You're a part of it

Yo, T-Babe Let me just tell you something, man I can't thank you enough, man You're really a legend I really appreciate it, bro You're really an icon You're really Thank you

A guy who changed the face of music I don't care what God Or anybody say Like, when you came And you did auto-tune, there could be a person that used it before you. Absolutely. And a person that used you in the middle of you. Right.

What you did with it, you changed this whole game. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. So I want to rebuttal what Usher said, because he was incorrect. He was incorrect. God bless him. I don't really know him like that.

God bless him, bro. God bless him, bro. I fuck with him, but I don't really know him. It was ignorant. Let's just be honest. God bless him, though. It was kind of ignorant. You know what I'm saying? Like, God bless him, bro. God bless him, bro. I fuck with him, but I don't really know him. It was ignorant. Let's just be 100%. God bless him, though. It was kind of ignorant. You know what I'm saying?

Like, God bless him, though. Let me tell you to your face. You did not fuck up music. You enhanced it. You understand what I'm saying? Thank you, bro. And you got a lot of people who owe you to this day because they sound like shit without auto-tune.

Let's talk about this. You know what I'm saying? There's people from girls to guys to whoever who can't really sing and they are saved because of auto-tune. And it's not just auto-tune, because of what you did to auto-tune. Thank you, bro.

For what you did. And you know what? I'll be a sucker to not say this behind your back. Talk about it now. I'm saying it to your fucking face. I'm saying it to your face. And although I think you wrapped up, I'm going to take a shot for you.

You better take a shot. I'm going to take a shot for you. Hold on, a shot. I'm going to take a shot for you. Hold on, I got you. I'm going to load up. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? Let me load up. Let me load up.

Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up. You want a bottle? I do. You want to take it home? Yes, I am. You know I'm taking it home.

Salud. Salud. Salud. Take it home. Salud. Boom. You motherfuckers. Dale Gabon.

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What others dismiss as niche, we embrace as core. There are so many stories out there. And if you can find a way to curate and help the right person discover the right content, the term that we always hear from our audience is that they feel seen. Listen to Good Company on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.