T-Pain Responds After Doordash Confuses Him with Soccer Star Tim Payne: ‘Are You All Okay???’

Erin ClementsTue, June 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM UTC

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T-Pain (left) and Tim PayneCredit: Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty; Megan Briggs/Getty

Key Takeaways

T-Pain clarified he's not a soccer player after DoorDash mistakenly tagged him instead of New Zealand's Tim Payne

The mix-up led to humorous exchanges, with T-Pain joking he was busy performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Tim Payne gained hundreds of thousands of followers after an influencer highlighted him as New Zealand's least-known World Cup player

T-Pain wants to clarify that he's not competing in the World Cup.

The "Buy U A Drank" rapper responded to a series of posts from DoorDash's X account that tagged him over the weekend, but were seemingly meant for New Zealand defender Tim Payne.

"Ok everybody relax @TPAIN has a plan🇳🇿⚽️," read one of the posts, to which T-Pain replied that he was busy performing at Colorado music venue Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

"I'm playing dubstep at Red Rocks 😂 what exactly do you want me to do?" he wrote.

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Another DoorDash post said, "@NZ_Football , still plenty of time. small tactical suggestion: give the ball to @TPAIN 🇳🇿⚽️," prompting the Grammy winner to ask, "Who do you think you're tagging??"

When the brand wrote,  "@TPain you gave everything out there tonight. we saw it.🇳🇿⚽️," T-Pain stated, "I literally don't play soccer."

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He then questioned, "Are you all okay??? @DoorDash stop tagging me in these soccer posts."

And finally in an X post on Monday, June 22, T-Pain shared a video showing many delivery bags, with the caption, "I do not play soccer. And I did not order all this s---!!! @DoorDash come get this man's stuff #DoorDashPartner."

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DoorDash responded with a cheeky message, writing, "See you on the field! we're rooting for you🇳🇿⚽️."

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Doordash did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

The real Tim Payne, 32, gained hundreds of thousands of followers in May after Argentine influencer Valen Scarsini asked his followers to support him, per the BBC, Stuff and Reuters

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"I looked at all the teams that play [in] the World Cup for the least-known player and, after analyzing one by one, I found it," Scarsini,  known as elscarso, said in Spanish on Instagram and TikTok, according to the BBC. "Tim Payne is a defender and has a very difficult task: help New Zealand win their first World Cup match. They have never won one."

Payne went from 4,715 followers before the shoutout, per Reuters, to having 753,000 followers on Instagram, and eventually grew to 5.9 million.

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