Drake Snipes at T-Pain for ‘Gracefully' Exiting Music Comments: ‘Guy Always Had Resentment for Me'
Drake has responded to T-Pain's comments regarding the 6 God allegedly not taking his own advice when it comes to 'gracefully' exiting 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 explained on a recent episode of the Crash Dummies Podcast. 'Drake said, 'I want to be one of those people that gracefully bows out and not get kicked out.''
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The 'Buy U a Drank' singer's comments went viral on Thursday (June 26). Drake quickly got wind of T-Pain's words and fired back at the Florida native on Instagram.
Drizzy claimed in a comment on Instagram: 'This guy always had resentment for me [laughing-crying emoji] you can hear it every time he speaks on my name.'
Offset also had Drake's back. 'Da Boy is da boy s–t ain't gone change,' the Migos rapper chimed in. 'Hating on another grown man who do more numbers than everybody is Diabolical!'
T-Pain also said on Crash Dummies that Drake is sticking around too long. '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,' he added. 'Let me know if you heard it.' Drake is like, 'No, listen, 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 first teased the idea of retirement during a 2023 interview with Lil Yachty. 'I think I'm at the point now where I just wanna like — I feel like maybe we talked about this the other day,' he said. 'I feel like I'm kinda introducing the concept in my mind of a graceful exit.'
It doesn't appear that Drake has any intentions of slowing down either. He teamed up with PARTYNEXTDOOR for their $ome $exy $ongs 4 U joint album earlier this year and is said to be hard at work on his upcoming solo effort.Best of Billboard
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'No matter how well-known Hunter Thompson became, I think it always mattered what the people in Louisville thought, because that was kind of his first audience,' said William McKeen, a Boston University journalism professor and the author of 'Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson.' Here are some of the Louisville locations that were influential to the writer's life: Thompson did not write about Louisville often. But one of the few things he did write about Louisville — the 1970 Scanlan's Magazine article 'The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved' — would change his life and give birth to a form of journalism that still influences writers today. "The article he did for Scanlan's on the Kentucky Derby, that ends up becoming maybe the most important turning point of his career — because it's the invention of Gonzo journalism," said Peter Richardson, a former San Francisco State University professor and the author of "Savage Journey: Hunter S. 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Between consistently warning Steadman about the physical danger he was in — of being shot by the hotel clerk for being British, of being killed over offensive caricatures, of the riot that didn't exist — Thompson is hyper-focused on finding the perfect face for Steadman to draw to illustrate the story. 'I saw it, in my head, as the mask of the whiskey gentry — a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture,' Thompson wrote. '… The face I was trying to find in Churchill Downs that weekend was a symbol, in my own mind, of the whole doomed atavistic culture that makes the Kentucky Derby what it is.' The morning after the race, with what appears to be a crippling hangover, Thompson catches his reflection in the mirror — 'a puffy, drink-ravaged, disease-ridden caricature' — and realizes it was his face they were searching for all along. 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In the early 1960s, while writing for other mainstream outlets in the Caribbean and South America, Thompson filed a number of freelance articles for The Courier Journal back in his hometown. Unlike his later gonzo offerings, his earlier writings did not look particularly out of place on the pages of The Courier Journal. While in Puerto Rico in 1960 — an experience that would later be immortalized in his novel 'The Rum Diaries' and a Johnny Depp movie of the same name — he wrote a handful of CJ articles about politics and life on the island. 'Hunter S. Thompson works on The Star in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have run stories by him in the past,' reads a brief bio tagged onto the end of a June 1960 Courier Journal profile Thompson wrote about a young Louisvillian who was, at the time, living in a small village outside of San Juan after graduating from Yale. (In reality, Thompson had been turned down for a job at The Star. In a letter to The Star's editor weeks later, Thompson claimed he never told The Courier Journal he worked for The Star. Meanwhile, the subject of the story, a good friend of Thompson's from Louisville, later claimed the quotes Thompson used were "totally fabricated.") In May of that year, Thompson wrote an analysis-heavy story comparing Puerto Rico's gubernatorial candidates for The Courier Journal. Later, in 1962, Thompson was in South America, largely writing for the Dow Jones-owned National Observer. However, in June of that year, he wrote a travel story for the CJ titled 'Beer Boat Blues,' where he recounted a trip on a barge carrying beer up Colombia's Magdalene River. Writing in the first-person, there are hints of Thompson's voice emerging, but it's still not there yet. 'I came up here on a tug. It was a wonderful trip: free ride, free beer, nice tan, plenty of rest — and now, retribution, I am here in Barranca Bermeja, an oil town, hot and stinking in the very middle of nowhere,' he wrote. Not all of Thompson's pitches to the CJ landed. In December 1959, Thompson wrote to the paper's editor pitching a story about "Louisville Expatriates in New York," including the Yale grad he later wrote about in Puerto Rico. The pitch never resulted in a story. Later, Thompson wrote a friend saying he had stopped pitching The Courier Journal after they turned down a story on Big Sur, California. To McKeen, the Boston University professor, there were two huge influences on a young Thompson's life in Louisville: the library and the expanses of forest near his childhood home known as Cherokee Park. McKeen spent time speaking to Thompson's friends for his book. 'A lot of them would say 'we'd go out, and we'd raise hell, we'd throw rocks at other kids, and we'd do this, and we'd do that — and then we'd go into the library, and we didn't say a word. We just sat there and read,'' he said. That love of books stuck with Thompson. Even as Thompson embarked on his 'career as a juvenile delinquent' as a teenager, McKeen said, he would come home and stay up all night reading. Thompson's mother was also an LFPL librarian. Just a couple blocks away from his Ransdell Avenue childhood home in the Highlands, Cherokee Park was a favorite stomping ground for Thompson throughout his adolescence. According to McKeen's book, Thompson called Cherokee Park 'beautifully wild and uncivilized: no buildings, no taxis, no traffic lights — just a sprawling and lonely woods.' It was also the site of an incident that would alter the course of his life. Thompson was no stranger to delinquency — from stealing booze to destroying a mailbox and drunkenly carousing with friends as a teen. But at 17, he would finally face real consequences. One night in May 1955, Thompson and two friends came across two couples making out in a car in Cherokee Park. The trio approached the car, and according to Courier Journal reporting at the time, one of the three allegedly had a gun. They robbed the couples of $8. It didn't take police long to find the trio. Thompson's colleague's — including one who was the son of a prominent attorney — got off light. But Thompson was sentenced to 60 days in jail, after which he was to go into the U.S. Air Force. As a result of his actions that night, Thompson never graduated from high school and never went to college. "He was kind of the mascot for a lot of the rich kids. So he palled around with them," McKeen said. "And then he went to jail, he went to the Air Force — and they want to Yale and all these other schools." Josh Wood is an investigative reporter. We have run stories by him in the past. He can be reached at jwood@ or on X at @JWoodJourno. This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Hunter S. Thompson growing up in Louisville sites to know
