T-Pain Responds After Being Criticized for Dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’
T-Pain was enjoying himself dancing on stage during a Las Vegas nightclub performance over the holiday weekend, but ended up having to clarify that he wasn’t trying to make a “political statement.”
The king of Auto-Tune performed at Resorts World’s Ayu Dayclub on Sunday (May 26), and one of the hilarious clips that went viral happened to be of T-Pain happily dancing in a white robe while Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” boomed throughout the venue.
Some fans took it as if T-Pain were choosing sides in the Kendrick and Drake rap war of 2024, and the “Bartender” singer made sure to clarify he was just having fun and dancing on stage during his performance.
“Welp! You heard it here first folks. Don’t drunk dance in a robe. Somehow it’s a political statement now,” he wrote to X on Monday (May 27). “Pls don’t let somebody else’s beef kill y’all’s fun. Let ppl dance PLEASE!! Mustard killed that f—-n beat tho. It’d be pretty weird if you didn’t dance to it.”
“You got a cease and desist to not dance to that song,” one fan joked while another wrote, “Aubrey and the boys blowing ur line up huh?”
K. Dot’s eviscerating anthem spent back-to-back weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 before “Not Like Us” was dethroned by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Help.”
While T-Pain felt the need to address the dancing video publicly, he told Billboard earlier as part of his May cover story that the only people who need to like him are those closest to him.
“It’s five people in this house that I need to like me: my wife, my kids, myself. That’s all I need,” he said. “That’s all I ever needed. So, you know, suck a butt.”
Watch the video and find T-Pain’s response below.
Michael Saponara
Billboard
