According to Tweets made by rapper Fabolous over the weekend, singer T-Pain[click to read] had a few choice words for Jay-Z while deejaying at Rehab nightclub in Las Vegas.
While doing his set at Rehab, T-Pain[click to read] proceeded to tell the crowd “fuck Jay-Z.”
“Yo I’m at Rehab in Vegas.. T-Pain is DJ’ing.. Sayin Fuck Jay Z, he old, blah blah.. guess its backlash from D.O.A..,” said Fabolous via Twitter.
T-Pain’s “fuck Jay-Z” comments are a stark contrast to his initial response to Jay Z’s “Death of Auto Tune (D.O.A.) [click to listen].”
“That affected me in a great way, man. I made sure I honored him as a great song writer…that’s like the best song i heard in a couple years, man,”
T-Pain told MTV regarding “D.O.A.” “And it’s great that somebody that important stepped up and vouched for me.”
The DJ who followed T-Pain was apparently unphased by T-Pain’s comments, he immediately started his set with “D.O.A.” followed by a number of other Jay-Z hits.
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“Yo the DJ is doin’ a Jay-Z set.. D.O.A., kingdom come, run this town, heart of the city, h to the izzo, amillie free.. T-Pain somewhere in here,” said Fabolous in a Tweet.
T-Pain has yet to comment publicly on his remarks made that night.
UPDATE: Interviewed this morning on the Ed Lover Morning Show, Jay-Z reacted to the reports and subsequently leaked video of T-Pain‘s diatribe. The Brooklyn veteran emcee, who told released his Blueprint 3 [click to read] album, seemed to wave off any lyrical confrontation with the Jive Records platinum star.
“I made it very clear I wasn’t talking about him,” Jay-Z said. “I think he’s talented, I don’t think he need Auto-Tune to sell records but if that’s his prerogative. ‘D.O.A.’ was just for the conversation.”
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The emcee later added that he still represents the culture above any one us, “Even still with all these guys running around…I still represent Hip Hop…I represent the culture. When I have conversation with Oprah or Bill Maher, represent the culture.“
UPDATE #2: T-Pain spoke to the Ed Lover Morning Show this morning. The Florida-based singer admitted to putting a Jay-Z Google Alert in his iPhone after first hearing “D.O.A.” to get clarifiaction if the Roc Nation emcee had a problem with him. “I’m lookin’ to see, if maybe in the interviews, [Jay-Z will admit] that he’s not talkin’ about me. I’m not goin’ crazy [with this at the time]…Every time [he was asked in interviews] if he was talkin’ about T-Pain, he’d say, ‘T-Pain is a talented dude.'” “I will say that what he said yesterday morning made me feel so much better…he’s an icon. I’m trying to be where he’s at.“
“Me going at Jay-Z…I could’ve been real stupid: I could have been one of these stupid artists [that disses Jay-Z]. He would have just [destroyed] me. My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.” The Auto-Tune singer also admitted that he was trying to reach Jay-Z for months to no avail. He also said that he would have been willing to stage a feud with Jay-Z akin to the sales competition two years ago with Kanye West and 50 Cent.
