A not-so-nice Homecoming for rapper T-Pain

It appears it was not such a nice Florida A&M University Homecoming celebration for hometown rapper T-Pain.

Scheduled as one of the headline acts for Friday night’s Funk Fest on campus, his set was cut short, he said, sending the Tallahassee native to social media to point out the negative side of coming home.

T-Pain said his performance was stopped before he could dedicate it to his niece Javona Glover, who was killed in a stabbing Aug. 30.

'Her only crime was loving him'

“All them artists that made it big out the city before me ain’t never as much mumbled the city name," he wrote. "I wear that s--- on me and I got the whole world talking bout us.”

In another Facebook post, including a video clip of him talking to the crowd as the lights dimmed, he talked about how he was treated.

“Shut the Mics off and cut the lights off on T-Pain (who) got the key to the city from the mayor!” he wrote.

“I don’t know why they do this, but I can do tell you this, this is why people don’t f--- with Tallahassee anymore,” the 31-year-old said in the video clip. Behind him, the lights of Bragg Stadium are still on but the stage lights darken. “All I do every day of my life is show Tallahassee love and when I come home this is the s--- I get. This is why I haven’t been back in so long because I knew this s--- was going to happen.”

T-Pain is back on home turf during FAMU Homecoming

Born Faheem Rasheed Najm, T-Pain hasn’t played in Tallahassee since a concert at the Tucker Civic Center in 2007.

The grief, joy of T-Pain's homecoming

He grew up in a modest house on Ridge Road in South Tallahassee, just a short drive from Bragg Stadium, a place from which he has said he draws a lot of inspiration.

On the Facebook thread, numerous commenters said T-Pain stalled his show to shoot a video, several shows were delayed with hour-long breaks between sets and there were issues with the order of the lineup.

In an earlier post, the rapper said he tried to shoot a video on campus but was shut down by FAMU officials who objected because of the use of a word describing a woman’s breasts.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.