A collaboration between Royce Da 5’9″ and almost materialized prior to their “First the Month” link, but the “Buy U a Drank” crooner wasn’t having it. We hear about artists sending each other ideas and music all the time, but not everyone is comfortable with sharing stories being rejected. Royce Da 5’9″ told HipHopDX that  after asking for the singer to hop on a song with him.

“I can’t remember exactly when it was, pinpoint it, I mean, exactly which album it was, but it was a song that I had that Kay Gee from Naughty By Nature produced. I can’t remember if it was a hook there or if it was… but we reached out and we sent it to him and I just remember getting the word back that he declined.”

“Looking at that in retrospect, I think I respect that more than getting spun,” Royce added. “You know what I mean? On that level as an artist, you take everything personal. don’t take everything so personal. It’s not that f*ckin’ serious. So, really, you just kinda hurt in a way ’cause when you’re a fan somebody the way I’m a fan T-Pain, you want him to wanna work with you. So when they don’t want to, or when they don’t have time or something like that, you take it like, ‘You on his album. You made time for his album.'”

The two did eventually link on “First the Month” with Chavis Chandler from Royce Da 5’9″‘s Book Ryan. “He made sure he knocked it out in a timely fashion and let me know don’t take things so personal.” Royce added that T-Pain is “a hard dude to not like.

Watch the clip in full below and see what Royce had to say about T-Pain buying the “F*ck T-Pain” website.