Chris Brown Champions T-Pain as ‘One of the GOATs’ & a ‘Pioneer’ in Music Following Drake Spat

Chris Brown has come to T-Pain’s defense while hailing his “Kiss Kiss” collaborator as “one of the GOATs” of his generation a true “pioneer” in the music game.

C. Breezy took to his Instagram Story over the weekend to champion the Florida rapper-singer’s greatness after T-Pain’s clash with Drake.

“Random thought,” Brown wrote while giving Pain his flowers. “[T-Pain] is one of the GOATs of my generation! Giving you your flowers!!! Pioneer. Love you, my brother.”

While Brown claimed it was a “random thought,” plenty of fans connected his praise for T-Pain to his name rising to the top of the mainstream conversation after Drake responded by taking a shot at the “Buy U a Drank” artist.

Last week, T-Pain was critical of Drake for seemingly not taking his own advice when it comes to having a “graceful exit” from the rap game.

“The one thing I learned from Drake, here’s the crazy thing, the one thing I learned from but one thing he hasn’t followed — his own words,” T-Pain told the Crash Dummies Podcast. “Drake said, ‘I want to be one of those people that gracefully bows out and not get kicked out.’”

Drake quickly got wind of T-Pain’s viral comments and claimed that Pain “always had resentment” for him, noting, “you can hear it every time he speaks on my name.”

T-Pain and Brown teamed up for their 2007 smash “Kiss Kiss,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100, and have had a strong bond in the years since.

However, following Brown’s defense of T-Pain, some Breezy fans recalled that Tallahassee Pain was critical of the R&B singer in 2022 surrounding the reception to his Breezy album, which saw Pain label Brown with having a “princess complex.”

“That is my motherf–kin’ n—a, but I know what his faults are. Chris Brown has the princess complex,” Pain told Akademiks at the time. “Now, we gon’ take this to something that is controversial, but — it’s not controversial. … The princess complex is not only when you get what you want, but you get the accolades of a pretty person for doing absolutely f–king nothing and just being pretty.”