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T-Pain slams Quincy Jones comments: 'I think he's just p***** off at the world'

The rapper fires back

Ilana Kaplan
New York
Thursday 08 February 2018 17:29 GMT
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Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images.
Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images.

Rapper T-Pain has hit back at Quincy Jones after the producer took a shot at him in a recent interview, saying he thinks Jones is "just p***** off at the world."

In the conversation with Vulture, the producer opened up about his mistakes - one in particular being his 2010 record Soul Bossa Nostra featuring tributes from other artists including T-Pain.

Jones said he didn't really want to do it and took a dig at T-Pain while recalling the experience saying, "I said to them, “Look, you got to make the music better than we did on the originals. That didn’t happen. T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details.”

The rapper went on a Twitter rant in response to Jones where he claims his managers made him do Soul Bossa Nostra and he wasn't happy with it either.

"For the record I told my managers (at the time) and I told @QuincyDJones in his face 'I don’t want to remake any of your past records because I know I’m gonna f*** it up. I’ll never be able to reach the greatest of MJ” it took them hours to pump me up to even go in the booth,'" he recalls.

T-Pain said the song sounded worse than it did in the studio explaining it's "one of the reasons I don’t work with the managers I had anymore because if I said I was uncomfortable doing something they didn’t care."

He continues on that he too wished the record turned out differently.

"I have nothing but respect for the guy so I don’t know why we didn’t hold the song or tell me exactly what he wanted when I kept taking the headphones off beggin for direction from the God," T-Pain writes.

T-Pain wasn't the only person Jones took shots at in his latest interview: he also called The Beatles "the worst musicians," said Michael Jackson "stole" his music and said Marlon Brando would have sex with anything - even a radiator.

Jones even went as far as to discuss his theory on who killed John F. Kennedy and why the Clintons are so disliked.

The icon spilled so much tea that we can't wait for his next interview.

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