--- title: T-Pain Responds to Quincy Jones' Criticism description: Quincy Jones took aim at rapper T-Pain in a recent interview. The rapper has since admitted the comments ring true canonical: https://time.com/5139525/quincy-jones-inteview-t-pain/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-08T16:41:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T19:12:18.861Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Quincy Jones Served Up Some Withering Criticism of a T-Pain Song. T-Pain Agrees og:description: 'I don’t know why we didn’t hold the song' og:url: https://time.com/5139525/quincy-jones-inteview-t-pain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671db01e74559b63/698926bd4ee2623ead310ccf/t-pain-quincy-jones-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2017 Firefly Music Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Quincy Jones Served Up Some Withering Criticism of a T-Pain Song. T-Pain Agrees twitter:description: 'I don’t know why we didn’t hold the song' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt671db01e74559b63/698926bd4ee2623ead310ccf/t-pain-quincy-jones-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Quincy Jones Served Up Some Withering Criticism of a T-Pain Song. T-Pain Agrees > Sponsored content. 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Rapper T-Pain performs onstage during the 2017 Firefly Music Festival on June 17, 2017 in Dover, Delaware.Photo by Kevin Mazur—Getty Images for Firefly by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Feb 8, 2018 4:41 PM UTC [Quincy Jones](http://time.com/3889749/bb-king-quincy-jones-maya-angelou/) had a lot to say about the current state of the music industry. One of his targets was rapper T-Pain, who turned around and admitted Jones’ criticism rang true. In the wide-ranging interview with [_New York_ magazine’s Vulture](http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html), Jones discussed _Q: Soul Bossa Nostra,_ a tribute album to Jones that features re-interpretations of songs Jones worked on. The record producer noted that he wasn’t happy with the result and added “T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details.” [T-Pain](http://time.com/4813066/t-pain-senior-yearbook-quote/) was featured on a remake of [Michael Jackson’s](http://time.com/5033766/thriller-michael-jackson-anniversary/) P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” along with Robin Thicke. He addressed the comments on Twitter Wednesday. The rapper said he didn’t want to record the song in the first place and hated it when it came out. “I told @QuincyDJones in his face ‘I don’t want to remake any of your past records because I know I’m gonna f–k it up. I’ll never be able to reach the greatest of MJ,'” T-Pain tweeted. > [](https://twitter.com/TPAIN/status/961384200036409344) > [](https://twitter.com/TPAIN/status/961387562186264576) He added that he has “nothing but respect for the guy” but wondered why Jones didn’t explain what he wanted or hold the song. In his interview with Vulture, Jones said he didn’t want to do the album but rather that rappers expressed the desire to pay tribute to him. T-Pain, however, claims it took encouragement from those around him to get him to record his piece. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5139525/quincy-jones-inteview-t-pain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5139525/quincy-jones-inteview-t-pain/"},"headline":"Quincy Jones Served Up Some Withering Criticism of a T-Pain Song. 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