Joe Budden has revealed that Jay Z charged him for $250,000 for his verse on Budden's 2003 hit “Pump It Up.” As previously reported, Jay Z recently told Kevin Hart in an interview that he doesn't charge for features.
During an interview with FlipDaScript, he said, “I don’t think that 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.”
He continued, “Listen, I’m super young in that moment. I wasn’t in the studio when Jay and Budden’s A&R Skane had the conversation. I knew that they had some type of relationship. It was a Just Blaze beat, and I was green behind the ears. I just thought that it would get done.”
He added,”I didn’t know anything about the business and how things like that are supposed to go. That was par the course…It was big to me because it was unattainable… but the blessing was that he gave a number.”