Jay-Z might not be charging for guest spots these days, however, that appears as though it was not always the case.
For, Joe Budden is now claiming that Hov was charging him a good chunk of money to have featured on his song ‘Pump It Up.’
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During an interview with the ‘Flip Da Script’ podcast, Budden revealed that his team tried to get Jay-Z to record a remix to his single ‘Pump It Up,’ but they couldn’t afford his $250,000 fee, saying:
“I don’t think it was a big number. I think that was his number. That’s my number to rap on this new artist’s remix. It was just big in my world, but it wasn’t a big number.”
Budden goes on to defend Jay-Z and claims that he doesn’t think that Hov was overcharging, saying:
“That was par for the course. It was normal. It was big to me because it was unattainable. It was outside of my budget, but the blessing was that he gave a number. If there was a way to get it, maybe this gets done. Maybe the start of your career goes different if you can find that money. But no, we didn’t have that.”
However, he also revealed that he was still optimistic about getting the ‘Holy Grail’ rapper on the song because of his relationship with the song’s producer Just Blaze.
Jay’s ‘Pump It Up’ verse did see the light of day and it made it to his 2010 greatest hits album, ‘Jay-Z: The Hits Collection, Volume One,’ which Budden has gone on to praise.
The news of how much Jay-Z cost comes shortly after he revealed to Kevin Hart that he does not charge for features (as we reported here).