T-Pain played Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy” during his Lollapalooza set after previously criticizing the Toronto rapper for staying in music despite comments about "gracefully" quitting.
During his set at the Chicago festival, which included tributes to other artists like the Fugees and Michael Jackson, T-Pain played Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy.” He danced to the song, suggesting that any ill will he had toward the 6 God doesn't exist anymore.
In June, T-Pain explained on the Crash Dummies podcast that Drake inspired him not to overstay his welcome in the music industry.
"One thing I learned from Drake, but one thing, he hasn’t followed his own words," T-Pain said. "Drake said, 'I wanna be one of them people that gracefully bow out and not get kicked out.'
“I have ever since said, 'Thank y’all, I appreciate y’all. I’ll see y’all when I drop—don’t worry about it, I’ll just drop something. Let me know if you heard it,'" T-Pain joked. "Drake is like, ‘No, listen. OK, I got another one. Hold on, check this out. Y’all ain’t like that one? OK, real quick, just one more. Let me try one more.'"
Drake caught wind of T-Pain’s comments and chose to laugh them off as hate.
"This guy always had resentment for me [laughing emoji]," Drake wrote on Instagram. "You can hear it every time he speaks on my name."
Offset came to Drake's defense in an Instagram comment about T-Pain’s clip, writing, "Da Boy is da boy shit ain’t gone change. All dat hating on another grown man who do more numbers than everybody is Diabolical !!!!"
T-Pain was seemingly referencing Drake and Lil Yachty’s 2023 conversation where the Toronto rapper revealed his thoughts on having a “graceful exit.”
"Well, I think like on a broader scale, I think I’m at the point now where I just wanna, like—I feel like maybe we talked about this the other day—but I feel like I’m kind of introducing the concept in my mind of a graceful exit," Drake said at the time.
Drake also explained why he thinks some rappers overstay their welcome in the industry.
"Sometimes it’ll baffle you, like why are these people still making attempts at trying to be present in the space?" he said. "And then you’ll realize they probably, their needs and desires and their soul was probably fed for so long off of being a guy, or the guy, that they can’t let it go.
"So I guess what’s left for me is just to find a way to gracefully—I’m not ready now—but to gracefully continue making projects that are extremely, like, interesting and hopefully cherished by people," Drake continued. "And then to find the right time to say like, 'I can’t wait to see what the next generation does.'"