Akon claims T-Pain once copped a $1.7 million Buggati- just to outshine him.
While on the Bag Fuel Podcast, Akon was asked about T-Pain and if he’s ever reached out to Akon for financial help.
“With Pain it was a little different because Pain had got to a certain level of his career where he was competing with me too,” he said during the interview. “We would have real conversations. I’d be like, ‘Yeah, Pain. I don’t think you need to buy that car.’”
“I noticed that every time I bought a car, Pain would come and try to outdo it. Then he pulled up on me in a Bugatti,” he explained. “At that time, the car was like 1.7 million [dollars]. Now you get a Bugatti for about 3 million. It’s like double the cost now, but at that time, even that was unheard of.”
“So I saw that car. I said, ‘Oooh,’ I said, ‘Pain, I don’t know.’ He said, ‘I’m shitting on these n****s.’ I said, ‘Yeah, you are. You shitting on me too, n***a, I gotta give it to you.’ But he was sh*tting on everybody” he continued.
Noted by Complex, during a previous interview with VladTV, Akon says he thought T-Pain would be further in his music career. “I think one of the major reasons is that T-Pain never left the hood. He just confined his music to urban music… That was it. I saw T-Pain as another me, to be able to cross outside of urban. Go into pop, go into EDM, go into Latin—I still think ’til this day he still can do it,” Akon said at the time.
T-Pain seemingly addressed Akon’s comments via Twitter. Although he didn’t mention him by name, fans assume the sentiment was a response to his previous collaborator. “The very ppl that held me back is tellin y’all how I could’ve been bigger” Pain said during that time.
“I’m not angry at all. I’ve grown. I’ve learned how to keep moving forward and not look back. Some ppl don’t and that’s ok. They’ll get there at their pace,” he wrote in a separate tweet. “But I’m no longer gonna to allow my past to determine my future. I’m in control. See y’all on the brighter side. Love y’all.”
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