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Legendary music producer and mogul Quincy Jones dropped some major bombs yesterday with a recent Vulture interview.
Promoting an upcoming Netflix documentary and CBS special, Quincy Jones sat down for a revealing interview where the musical legend discussed Michael Jackson stealing several songs from his era, including ‘Billie Jean.’ Jones even went public about a past sexual relationship between the late comedians/actors Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando, and Jones also revealed he dated President Trump’s daughter Ivanka.
Slowly, but surely, hip-hop has been responding to Jones’ interview and T-Pain, who Jones criticized Pain’s P.Y.T. revamp, took to his twitter to get some things off of his chest.
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
Peep the Jones interview here.