T-Pain Responds to Money Trouble Jokes in the Funniest Way Possible

Mar. 15, 2025

T-Pain.Photo:Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty; T-Pain/Instagram

Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty; T-Pain/Instagram

Everybody look atT-Pain’cause he’s sailing on a boat.

In the video, T-Pain gives fans a tour of the boat, complete with marble statues, skylights, separate sleeping quarters and a full bar. “I guess I’m broke. Anyways here’s the yacht I’m staying on,” he wrote on the clip.

“It’s all within reach, ya know?” he said while walking around the yacht’s deck, set with a full dining table, lounge seating and a jacuzzi. “yOu dIdNt fLY pRIvaTe???” he cheekily captioned the clip.

The “I’m on a Boat” singer’s yacht tour video comes after he spoke about flying commercial instead of taking a private jet, emphasizing the astronomical cost.

“If it don’t make dollars it don’t make sense!!! Pass me the Biscoff cookies,” he captioned his ThursdayInstagram video, referring to the caramel and cinnamon-flavored cookies Delta flights offer.

“To take a private jet from Atlanta to Vegas and then back to Atlanta is $126,000. And y’all are asking me… Do you understand what I’m saying?” T-Pain said.

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“Are you okay now? Do you feel like it? No private debt jet? What? You not taking a private jet? You’re not spending all this money to go make money. Why would you do that? In what world is that smart? Then y’all will be like he broke again.”

Delta Airlines commented on Instagram, agreeing with T-Pain’s take. “Make it make sense 😎✈️,” the airline wrote.Timbalandalso chimed in, “Don’t do it !!!!!!!” “Bruhhhh,“Big Seanadded, “Facts.”

In 2019, T-Pain spoke aboutmanaging his finances while onThe Breakfast Clubradio show and how he had experienced both wealth and being broke.

T-Pain at Stagecoach in Indio, California in April 2024.Amy Sussman/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty

“I’ve been mega-rich, you know, I’ve been super broke, right in the middle of thinking I was mega-rich, and then got rich again, and you know learned how to really give a s— about money,” T-Pain said, adding that he had to ask for money to buy Burger King for his kids.

“Once you give a s— about the money you’re making, then, you know what I’m saying, you feel much better about your accomplishments, you feel much better about what you’re doing, you start paying attention to your work that makes you money,” he added.

source: people.com