Snoop Dogg gave Future quite the bargain.
During a recent visit to The Breakfast Club, the Death Row Records chief shared more details about his work on “Homicide,” a standout track from Future’s 2012 debut album, Pluto. Snoop explained he connected with the young Atlanta artist through their mutual friend DJ Funky and agreed to jump on a verse for the then-upcoming rapper.
“I don’t even know if y’all know it or not: On Future’s first album, my homeboy DJ Funky, I was in Atlanta in a hotel, he’s like, ‘Man, I got this artist named Future. He wants you on the album,'” Snoop remembered. “I said, ‘How much you got?’ He said, ‘He’s got $7,500.’ I said, ‘Bring that shit, n***a.'”
Snoop recently disclosed he now charges $250,000 for a feature and another $250,000 to appear in a music video. While it’s not clear exactly what the Long Beach legend was asking for back in 2011-2012, it’s pretty obvious Future scored himself a sweet deal.
“[Future] came tot the hotel room with one of these mics and put that motherfucker up,” Snoop explained. “I was on my one knee, on the side of the bed, dropping that motherfuckin’ verse on that shit. As soon as I’m finished, I’m like, (holds out hand)… Then, five years later, nigga Future was the biggest nigga in the world.”
Snoop mentioned Future was just one of many artists he linked with before they blew up.
“I always be getting with people in the beginning,” Snoop told the hosts, referring to his history of backing rising talents. “I don’t know how. For some reason, I find them, they find me. And before you know it, they become Future, they become Wiz Khalifa, they become big artists… It’s moments like that, throughout my whole career, where it’s always been that young artist that either somebody put me in touch with, or either I find them, we do something and [they take off]… Look at Wiz Khalifa. That motherf—cker is gone. He’s gone. And I love it.”
