Chris Brown Champions T-Pain as ‘One of the GOATs' & a ‘Pioneer' in Music Following Drake Spat
C. Breezy took to his Instagram Story over the weekend to champion the Florida rapper-singer's greatness after T-Pain's clash with Drake.
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'Random thought,' Brown wrote while giving Pain his flowers. '[T-Pain] is one of the GOATs of my generation! Giving you your flowers!!! Pioneer. Love you, my brother.'
While Brown claimed it was a 'random thought,' plenty of fans connected his praise for T-Pain to his name rising to the top of the mainstream conversation after Drake responded by taking a shot at the 'Buy U a Drank' artist.
Last week, T-Pain was critical of Drake for seemingly not taking his own advice when it comes to having a 'graceful exit' from the rap game.
'The one thing I learned from Drake, here's the crazy thing, the one thing I learned from but one thing he hasn't followed — his own words,' T-Pain told the Crash Dummies Podcast. 'Drake said, 'I want to be one of those people that gracefully bows out and not get kicked out.''
Drake quickly got wind of T-Pain's viral comments and claimed that Pain 'always had resentment' for him, noting, 'you can hear it every time he speaks on my name.'
T-Pain and Brown teamed up for their 2007 smash 'Kiss Kiss,' which topped the Billboard Hot 100, and have had a strong bond in the years since.
However, following Brown's defense of T-Pain, some Breezy fans recalled that Tallahassee Pain was critical of the R&B singer in 2022 surrounding the reception to his Breezy album, which saw Pain label Brown with having a 'princess complex.'
'That is my motherf–kin' n—a, but I know what his faults are. Chris Brown has the princess complex,' Pain told Akademiks at the time. 'Now, we gon' take this to something that is controversial, but — it's not controversial. … The princess complex is not only when you get what you want, but you get the accolades of a pretty person for doing absolutely f–king nothing and just being pretty.'Best of Billboard
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