Aaliyah Death: T-Pain Thinks If Singer Were Alive People Would Say She Was Trying to Be Beyonce [Watch]

During the listening party for his mixtape, "The Iron Way," T-Pain addressed the controversy surrounding his use of previously unused Aaliyah vocals for his song, "Girlfriends."

Many Aaliyah fans slammed T-Pain for using the late singer's vocals because they felt he is "unworthy" of such a privilege, Bossip reports.

So because of the controversy, T-Pain made the decision to take the song off his mixtape.

But despite scrapping the song from his mixtape, T-Pain used his listening party as a platform to address the controversy surrounding "Girlfriends."

He explained he had an agreement with Aaliyah's producers to be featured on her tribute album, "Aaliyah X," in exchange for using her vocals for free on his "The Iron Way" mixtape.

"So what happened was they were doing 'Aaliyah X' album and they came to me for a feature on the album," he began. "They had a bunch of sessions and unused tracks from her. So instead of being a d**k and charging the shit out of them, I was like, 'Yo, just give me one of the sessions.' And they were like, "Cool. We ain't gotta pay, right?' It was just like a swap. I did a song for her album and they gave me one for mine."

T-Pain continued his speech by questioning Aaliyah's impact and legacy. He expressed his belief that Aaliyah's fans tend to over exaggerate the late singer's legacy because of her death.

"People tend to -- I don't know, man. I'm not trying to discredit Aaliyah in any kind of way. But you know how sometimes people die-yeah. You know how somebody's an a**hole their whole life, but when you go to their funeral it's like, 'This guy was the greatest man ever.' No, I'm just sayin'!

T-Pain also predicted that if Aaliyah were still alive today, she would be the subject of controversy and backlash for trying to be like Beyonce, Vibe reports.

"If she was still alive, then everybody would've been like, 'Oh! She tryna be Beyonce!' if she were still alive right now. But now that she's passed, it's like, 'Nobody could be her! Nobody could be her!'" he explained.

Following his comments, Aaliyah fans took to Twitter to slam him. Check out their tweets below.