T-Pain Reveals How Little Money He Makes From ‘Buy U A Drank’
September 19, 2023 9:26AM EDT

T-Pain attends the LA premiere of “Bad Boys for Life” at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
T-Pain has revealed that he doesn’t make as much money as his fans think he does from “Buy U A Drank,” even though it’s his best-known song.
In an undated radio interview that has since gone viral on TikTok, the rapper-turned-author revealed that his hit track has more proverbial cooks in the kitchen than fans realize, which is why it didn’t make him big money.
Watch “Buy U A Drank” video below.
Do you think that being name-checked in a popular song deserves payday? Why, or why not?
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