Quincy Jones is setting off all sorts of ALARMS after his TELL IT LIKE IT IS interview with ‘Vulture’ magazine.
One of the EXPLOSIVE ‘gems’ dropped by Jones was that T-Pain, who worked on the ‘P.Y.T.’ remake for Q’s ‘Q: Soul Bossa Nostra’ tribute album. Jones was not PLEASED with T-Pain’s work.
“I was not in favor of doing [2010’s Q: Soul Bossa Nostra], but the rappers wanted to record something as a tribute to me, where they’d do versions of songs that I’d done over my career,” said Jones. “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.”
T-Pain, after hearing of Jone’s displeasure, took to Instagram to offer up his side of the story!
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 fuck 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 1/2
— T-Pain (@TPAIN) February 7, 2018
And I still hated it when I came out of the booth. Then the song came out and it was even worse than it sounded in the studio. This is legit 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 2/2
— T-Pain (@TPAIN) February 7, 2018
But also to be real. It just seems like @QuincyDJones is pissed off at the whole world. 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 (@TPAIN) February 7, 2018
WELL he told him he didn’t want to do it… SO that was the OUTCOME… But T-pain dropped them RECEIPTS though!
