T-Pain Claims Drake Didn’t Take His Own Advice When It Came to a ‘Graceful’ Exit From Music

Back in 2023, Drake hinted at the idea of having a “graceful exit” from the rap game, but T-Pain doesn’t think the 6 God’s following his own advice.

The Florida rapper-singer joined the Crash Dummies Podcast earlier in June, where he revealed that Drake’s words about leaving the industry gracefully rather than getting forced out struck a nerve with him, leaving T-Pain to take a step back and examine his place in music.

“The one thing I learned from Drake, here’s the crazy thing, the one thing I learned from but one thing he hasn’t followed — his own words,” T-Pain explained. “Drake said, ‘I want to be one of those people that gracefully bows out and not get kicked out.’”

He continued: “I have ever since said, ‘Thank y’all, I appreciate y’all. I’ll see y’all when I drop — don’t worry about it, I’ll just drop something. Let me know if you heard it.’ Drake is like, ‘No, listen, I got another one. Hold on, check this out. Y’all ain’t like that one? OK, real quick, just one more. Let me try one more.’”

Essentially, T-Pain thinks Drake became the person he said he wouldn’t be, while Drizzy’s words really struck a nerve with the “Buy U a Drank” artist.

“Like, when he said that ‘I wanna gracefully bow out and not get kicked out,’ I was like, ‘You know what? I’m out this b—h. I’m out this motherf—ker,’” he added. “I’m not trying to impress y’all n—s. Y’all n—s don’t give a f—k if I live or die. Why the f—k would I keep trying to impress y’all? I’m out. I’m done. I did everything that I’m trying to do. I changed the game. I made a sound. What else?”

Drake initially broached the idea of retirement when joining Lil Yachty for an interview in 2023.

“I think I’m at the point now where I just wanna like — I feel like maybe we talked about this the other day,” he said at the time. “I feel like I’m kinda introducing the concept in my mind of a graceful exit.”

However, Drake’s continued to be active in the rap game. In the time since, he released his For All the Dogs album, got into a battle with Kendrick Lamar and teamed up with PARTYNEXTDOOR for $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.

Listen to T-Pain talk about Drake around the 30-minute mark below.