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.

 

 

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"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?