Drake reacts to T-Pain’s ‘Gracefully’ exit music comment & Offset defended Drizzy: ‘This Guy Always Had Resentment for Me’

T-Pain is referring to Drake’s teasing about how he once said he would leave the rap game during a 2023 interview with Lil Yachty.

Drizzy initially broached the idea of retirement when joining Lil Yachty for an interview in 2023

Drake commented via Toronto rappers Instagram account after T-Pain revealed a conversation between the two about finding a way to gracefully bow out of the music industry.

Back in 2023, Drizzy hinted at the idea of having a “graceful exit” from the rap game, but T-Pain doesn’t think the Toronto superstar following his own advice.

“This guy always had resentment for me 😂 you can hear it every time he speaks on my name,” Drake commented on an Instagram post from Toronto Rappers on Thursday, (June 26).

This week, on the Crash Dummies podcast, T-Pain claimed Drake inspired him to not overstay his welcome in the music industry, but the Toronto rapper has since ignored his own advice.

“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. “Drake said, ‘I want to be one of those people that gracefully bows out and not get kicked out.'”

He continued: “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. 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.'”

Essentially, T-Pain thinks Drake became the person he said he wouldn’t be, while Drizzy’s words really struck a nerve with the “Buy U a Drank” artist.

“Like, when he said that ‘I wanna gracefully bow out and not get kicked out,’ I was like, ‘You know what? I’m out this b—h. I’m out this motherf—ker,'” he added. “I’m not trying to impress y’all n—s. Y’all n—s don’t give a f—k if I live or die. Why the f—k would I keep trying to impress y’all? I’m out. I’m done. I did everything that I’m trying to do. I changed the game. I made a sound. What else?”

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Offset also chimed in; the Tallahassee singer commented that he believes Drake ignored his own advice about overstaying his welcome in the music industry.

“Da Boy is da boy sh*t ain’t gone change […] hating on another grown man who do more numbers than everybody is Diabolical !!!!”