Snoop Dogg cut Future a pretty good deal.
During a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club, the Death Row Records boss shed more light on his involvement in “Homicide,” a standout cut from Future’s 2012 debut album, Pluto. Snoop said he met the young ATL artist through their mutual friend DJ Funky and agreed to contribute a guest verse for the then-rising 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 recalled. “I said, ‘How much you got?’ He said, ‘He’s got $7,500.’ I said, ‘Bring that shit, n***a.’”
Snoop recently revealed he now charges $250,000 for a feature and an additional $250,000 for a music video appearance. Although it’s unclear how much the Long Beach rapper was charging in 2011-2012, it’s safe to assume Future received a generous discount.
“[Future] came tot the hotel room with one of these mics and put that motherfucker up,” Snoop said. “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, n***a Future was the biggest n***a in the world.”
Snoop said Future was just one of many artists he connected with before they hit it big.
“I always be getting with people in the beginning,” Snoop told the hosts, referencing his history of supporting up-and-coming artists. “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.”
