During an interview on the ‘Flip Da Script’ podcast, Joe Budden revealed that his team tried to get JAY-Z to record a remix to his 2003 single ‘Pump It Up,’ but they could not afford it.
While he’s not charging for tracks now, in the early 2000s, Jay Z was charging a quarter of a million dollars just for a verse. Though Budden doesn’t think it’s a big number now, back then he could not afford to pay Jay Z.
“That was par for the course. It was normal,” he said. “It was big to me because it was unattainable. It was outside of my budget”.
Budden got his verse from Jay Z eventually, but it did not end up on Joe’s self-titled 2003 debut album, but it ultimately appeared on a freestyle track on Hov’s 2010 greatest hits album, JAY-Z: The Hits Collection, Volume One.