T-Pain’s Viral Drift Car Betrayal Saga Is the Most Riveting Thing on TikTok
Back in summer 2021, ThatDudeInBlue and others shared videos of T-Pain drifting his "Pickle Rick" themed Nissan 240SX, getting some tips from his friend George Grob. In the video, T-Pain has one priority: "The goal of today is making sure I get some f**kin seat time." But, as the rapper explains in a series of videos on TikTok, that would be one of the last times he saw the car for over a year. And the reason he was without it for so long, T-Pain alleges, is that the same friend, Grob, left him hanging.
In a rambling, 27-part series (which starts here), T-Pain says the problems started when Grob drove the car on track. He goes on to say—over roughly 81 highly entertaining minutes—that Grob pitched himself as T-Pain's Atlanta car guy. A good guy to know, T-Pain assumed, since he was getting into the drift scene. T-Pain had Grob's shop, GMG automotive, work on the 240SX. When it was ready for the track, the rapper let the mechanic and fellow drifter take it out and drift. T-Pain, at the time, was driving his other drift car, an E46.
The Nissan's engine, however, didn't handle the track well. For reasons that aren't completely clear, it sustained damage, and Grob reportedly took it back to the shop. This is where the real drama starts, as T-Pain alleges that this is where Grob began consistently delaying progress on the car and misleading him about the state of the work. Even as that happened, though, T-Pain approved Grob's request to drive his car on a reality TV show, "Getaway Driver" with Michelle Rodriguez and American rally legend Wyatt Knox.
The resulting segment features Grob driving the car in a challenge that seems almost bound to end in serious damage. He has to escape from two pursuing Crown Victorias through a maze-like, tight obstacle course. He drifts every corner and at one point, bizarrely, stops in place. A Crown Vic takes the opportunity to ram him, and continues its pursuit down a higher-speed section before hitting him again. This time, Grob and the 240SX are pinned by the whopper of a hit. Watching the Nissan get annihilated, it's hard to envy its owner.
According to T-Pain, Grob did not tell him about this crash for months, instead saying it had more engine trouble. T-Pain says he was sent the clip by his other friends, who had long been asking about his "Pickle Rick" car. Despite claiming that he knew Grob was hiding this from him, the rapper continued to send him new work, including a door repair for his Ferrari and an alignment for his E46. In what T-Pain describes as screenshotted texts between the two, Grob lays out a litany of reasons spanning months, claiming financial difficulties, supplier delays, and confusion for delays. The purported texts show Grob repeatedly asking for more money from T-Pain, and T-Pain claims that he ended up giving the shop owner over $10,000 for work on his vehicles before seeing the final result.
While we can't link all 27 videos, I'll at least post the second-to-last one here, too. If you can't watch the series, at least watch this. In it, you get to watch T-Pain react to seeing his cherished car after over a year's separation. Given the quality of the work performed, he doesn't look too happy about it. He doesn't seem to think it's the no-corners-cut, no-rush perfect job he'd been promised.
Hopefully this experience won't sour drifting for T-Pain, as he's clearly enjoying the scene. But it doesn't sound like he's too thrilled with how he was treated by someone he considered a friend and part of his community. We've reached out to Grob for comment on multiple platforms but have yet to hear back.
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