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T-Pain Talks Kanye West’s Diss Track, Confederate Flag Merchandise

Posted on January 22nd, 2014
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T-PainIn unseen footage from a previously released interview with vladtv.com, T-Pain talks about having to sit through an entire studio singing along to a diss track about him made by Kanye West during the making of 808s and Heartbreak. T-Pain says that working with Kanye was fun until the song started coming together and explains how that’s the reason he wouldn’t get Kanye a gift after the birth of his first child.

“He came up with this song for me, and it wasn’t a good song,” said T-Pain. “It was basically describing how wack my ideas was that I was coming up with. And he made everybody in the studio join in with him to sing like, ‘T-Pain’s shit is weak.'”

“I actually thought he should have put that on the record at some point,” he said about the unreleased diss track. “But it would have been a diss record. I thought that was pretty fucked up.”

In the previously released part of the interview T-Pain spoke on feeling unappreciated for his contributions to autotone’s role in hip hop, which led to Kanye West’s successful 808s and Heartbreaks solo project which received great acclaim.

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Later on in the interview the Tallahassee-native says that he isn’t really affected by Kanye West “taking back” the Confederate flag by placing it on his Yeezus Tour merchandise. T-Pain said he would wear clothes with it on when he was growing up in Florida because they were cheaper and, for his generation, the meaning of the symbol had changed.

“That shit affects people that were affected by that Confederate flag when that Confederate flag was a thing,” said T-Pain. “Like, the younger generation,  my generation. I was born in ’84, that confederate flag shit was gone. We don’t give a shit about that. We wore that shit. I went and got Confederate flag shirts from Walmart because they were cheaper than the ones with Malcolm X on it and I wore that shit to fucking school. That shit didn’t bother me.”

T-Pain went on to say that he supports what Kanye West is trying to do and also understands that there are many that still feel a certain kind of way about the meaning behind the flag.

 

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