T Pain clarifies Jay Z diss and Jay responds

Over the weekend, T-Pain has been taking a lot of heat for a sudden diss on Jay Z. He at a pool party at Rehab in Las Vegas. We on the mic shout “Fuck Jay Z, Jay Z is old, and more slugs in front of a packed audience that hosted many celebs including Jay’s friends Rihanna and Fabolous.  He now says that he just “bugged out” that day.

During an interview with Ed Lover on Power 105.1 in New York Pain explained the situation and his thoughts on the issue.

“I’m definitely cool with Jay. I bugged out that day,” the singer said. “It was people in the crowd saying ‘Yo Jay-Z destroyed you’, as I’m doing an acapella track. I do acapella tracks to show people that I don’t need auto-tune, and then you [got the disses] and five people throwing up the Dynasty sign…”

T-Pain goes on to explain a few different situations he’s experienced with Jay-Z since he dropped his infamous “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” single, which had Pain confused and frustrated more than anything.

“This is what happened: we was talking about it the whole day. I called Jay and I said ‘Yo, can you come out on my set, at the stadium, and do the ‘D.O.A.’ song? It’d be a big look for me and you. I praised the song, I love the song,’ ” Pain said. “At that time, he said ‘I’m triple booked. I’m in Switzerland right now. I can’t do it. I’m doing three shows in Switzerland right now.’ Then, I’m getting ready to go onstage … I’m ready to go and they like ‘Hold on, Jay-Z’s about to come out with Jeezy.’ I’m like ‘Jay-Z’s in Switzerland!’ They’re like ‘No he’s not, he’s right there.’ I look and there’s Jay-Z.

“We got on the stage and then, the line in the song where he says ‘I don’t need nobody smiling at this’, he pointed at me. At the end of the song, when I tried to shake his hand, he turned around and said ‘Good riddance.’ I’m like ‘Wow,’ he continued.

The incident he’s talking about is when Jay-Z performed at Hot 97′s annual Summer Jam concert back in June, and brought T-Pain onstage as he performed “D.O.A.” While many took their appearance onstage as a sign that the pair were cool, the singer saw the evening in a whole different light.

“Me, personally, I didn’t see it from that perspective,” he said. “I tried to shake his hand and he turned around, gave the mic to somebody else and said ‘Good riddance.’ … I’m feeling like ‘Wow this guy really don’t like me, or he don’t like what I’m doing.’

“The whole thing [with his manager], he told me ‘Come on stage, doing your thing. Stand there, and just chill with Jay while he do the song.’ That’s the same thing I wanted him to do when I asked him to go on my set. Fantastic, that’s great. The next day, he went to the other station and said ‘Yo I don’t know who it was, I thought it was a fan.’ My thought process is like ‘Yo brother, the fruit of Islam is up there. Islam’s security and you got Jeezy’s security. Why would they let a fan up there?’ ” T-Pain questioned.

Despite all the confusion and the release of the track, T-Pain says he’s never had a problem. He’s only been upset because Jay-Z has never said that he WASN’T dissing him.

“Only problem I really did have with it was that he never really clarified if he was talking about me or not. He did clear it up, yesterday, and I feel a lot better,” T-Pain concluded. “Neither me, nor him, got time to be going through his beef crap. I’m a fan of Jay-Z’s and I’mma always be a fan of Jay-Z’s. Me and [Fabolous] talked today and he apologized. … It was just too much.”

Apparently a beef between the two artists is over before it could ever being

“The best way to have someone get at you, is to talk about them to someone else. It was just really me, trying to get his attention,” T-Pain explained of his Las Vegas outburst. “Like, yo, please call me because I’ve been trying to call you for dang near two months now. I just wanna know if you trying to do this for publicity. Fantastic, let me know that and I’ll do it with you. I act like I hate your guts. Just like 50 and Kanye.”

Jay Z responds: (well, not really)