T Pain used to be a mainstay on DJ Khaled's albums.
Then he wasn't.
T Pain addressed this in 2013.
“Future is on right now,” T-Pain told VIBE. “Khaled deals with who’s hot at the time, so of course he don’t need T-Pain when he got another T-Pain. It’s not really a big deal for him to switch people. If I was DJ Khaled, I would’ve did the same thing. He’s not a rapper, he’s not a producer, he’s going to get all the hot people together and put them on a song. That’s what Khaled is famous for. He gets all the hot people and puts them on the song. It’s featuring a bunch of mother*ckers, he don’t never go back and get somebody who’s not hot.”
During Khaled's stop on Drink Champs, he was asked point blank if he would work with T-Pain again. Here's what he said.
[Instagram post not found]"I love T-Pain. I'm down. What we made together, nobody can ever duplicate that in life. Some records off my head, "I'm So Hood," "Go Hard" "All I Do Is Win." He wrote "Out Here Gridin" ... He's so talented, his melody game. He's from Florida. He's special. What we've down together is unbelievable. I always got love for T-Pain," Khaled said.
Does that sound like he's going to work with T-Pain again?