T-Pain Responds To Backlash Over Negative Black History Month Comments

T-Pain made a few comments about celebrating Black History Month the other day and the reactions from his words were all over the spectrum. Many supported T-Pain calling for an end to Black History Month, but others dragged him for even thinking of such a thing.

On Thursday (February 3), T-Pain took to Twitter to address all the commotion and gracefully admitted he would take on all the criticism he was receiving because people needed an outlet to voice their frustrations.

“I’ll happily be the provider of a distraction from whatever yall are actually mad at because I know you’re not actually mad at me,” T-Pain said. “It’s impossible. You don’t even know me so how could I have that much power over your feelings? We all need a getaway and I’ll be that if you need it.”

I’ll happily be the provider of a distraction from whatever yall are actually mad at because I know you’re not actually mad at me. It’s impossible. You don’t even know me so how could I have that much power over your feelings? We all need a getaway and I’ll be that if you need it

— T-Pain (@TPAIN) February 3, 2022

T-Pain’s comments had to do with the bomb threats sent to a dozen Historically Black Colleges and Universities. TMZ caught up with him on Tuesday (February 1) to get his thoughts on the troubling situation.

“It’s always been fucked up, it’s been fucked up for hella years,” T-Pain said. “We take it how we’ve been taking it. We going to make changes, look towards the future and stop looking at the past and we’ll make a change.”

The reporter then asked about the advice T-Pain would have for white people celebrating the annual event and he advised that everyone should just stop and give Black culture more than just a month.

“Stop celebrating,” he said. “Although we celebrate Black History Month, I think we should just have history. They overshot it. We don’t want our own shit, you’re separating us again. We want to be part of history and not just one month of it.”

He continued, “Like we want to be part of history, don’t celebrate one month for us. I’d rather everybody stop celebrating that shit and just let us be part of history and not just, ‘y’all get paid attention to on the shortest month of the year.’”

Listen to our DX Daily Podcast hosts discuss the comments and give their opinion: