*T-Pain claims Kanye West convinced him not to use a corny lyric about Steve Urkel, only to turn around and use it on his own album.
Per Billboard, in a recent Twitch stream, Pain recalled working on the Jay-Z/Kanye West joint album “Watch the Throne” in 2011, and asked for Ye’s input on a mixtape he was also cooking up at the time.
“I really wanted his f—ing opinion, like I was dying. It’s f—ing Kanye, bro, you know what I’m saying?” he said. “Like, I got a chance to show Kanye my f—ing raps? And he’s not like super hip to my raps. He’s not like, you know, been a fan of mine long enough to know that I actually rap, too. And I get a chance to show him how I rap. It was either Prevolver — it was one of the Pre mixtapes before I released it — and on one of the songs I said … ‘I got beef like two burgers/ You n—-s win slow and I’m smarter than Steve Urkel’… Corny as f—. I knew it was corny when I said it.”
And Ye co-signed… urging Pain to never utter the lyric.
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Much to T-Pain’s surprise, West revamped the lyric for title track “Dark Fantasy,” to his 2010 album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.” On it, he raps: “Too many Urkels on your team, that’s why you win slow.”
T-Pain was left stunned when he heard it.
“I was like, ‘Did this n—a try to get me to not say my s— so he could say it? I was like, ‘Bro, what the f—?'” he said of the line that ended up on Pain’s song “Danger.” “That’s my bar! I was like, ‘Bro, that’s my bar!’ ‘I got beef like two burgers/ You n—-s win slow and I’m smarter than Steve Urkel.’ He looked at me and he was literally bobbing his head, grabbing his chin, and when I said that line he looked at me and said, ‘Don’t say that.’”
Watch T-Pain’s Twitch interview via the YouTube clip above.
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