Jay-Z responds to T-Pain's Vegas tirade

September 8, 4:45 PMNY Hip-Hop Music ExaminerSamantha Greaves

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Jay-Z brushes T-Pain off. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Now that the smoke has cleared from T-Pain's ears following his Vegas confession of his feelings about Jay-Z’s “D.O.A.”, Jay has taken the time out to address T-Pain’s thoughts.

In a recent interview, Jay-Z discussed the early release of Blueprint 3 (that he attributed to the excessive leaks the album experienced weeks before its intended release) among other things. When asked what he thought about T-Pain being caught saying,

Jay-Z is 59 years-old so I don't think he has the right to say what's good and what's not. I mean if anybody's dead, it should be him. That's just me. Now I just want to clarify, if there are any Jay-Z fans in the house, excuse the f**** out of me. But you don't hear me saying that rap is dead. Even though it is because apparently all the rappers are trying to do T-Pain.

Jay responded with a simple “I hope he had fun saying it”. T-Pain’s thoughts came as a bit of a surprise to music fans that were under the assumption that the “Bartender” singer was OK with the controversial song. At this year’s Hot 97 Summer Jam, T-Pain said that he liked the song and the fact that Jay decided to throw daggers at the vocal effect that has catapulted his career. T-Pain even appeared on the Summer Jam stage with Jay-Z as the rapper performed the song.

Jay took the liberty of explaining the purpose of the song. He admitted that he wrote the song because of the lack of diversity in music today. He further elaborated that once upon a time, there was a buffet of all kinds of rap that ranged from political rap to gangster rap and now everyone is interested in doing the same thing making music boring; of course, this was paraphrased.

In related news, Jay-Z will be embarking on a tour starting in October. The tour will make stops at Universities as well as traditional venues with its first stop being Penn State University. Below are the tour dates.

October 9 - University Park, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
October 10 - Highland Heights, KY @ The Bank of Kentucky Center
October 13 - Edmonton, Alberta @ Rexall Place
October 14 - Calgary, Alberta @ Pengrowth Saddledome
October 15 - Kelowna, British Columbia @ Prospera Place
October 16 - Vancouver, British Columbia @ General Motors Place
October 17 - Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
October 21 - Ypsilanti, MI @ Convocation Center
October 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center
October 24 - Providence, RI @ Dunkin Donuts Center
October 25 - Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center
October 27 - Baltimore, MD @ 1st Mariner Arena
October 28 - Columbus, OH @ Value City Arena Ohio State
October 29 - London, Ontario @ John Labatt Centre
October 30 - Montreal, Quebec @ Centre Bell Centre
October 31 - Toronto, Ontario @ Air Canada Centre
November 1 - Ottawa, Ontario @ Scotiabank Place
November 12 - Champaign, IL @ University of Illinois, Assembly Hall
November 19 - Albuquerque, NM @ Tingley Coliseum
November 20 - El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
November 22 - Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center Arena
 

Jay-Z's 11th studio album Blueprint 3 was made available today.