Talib Kweli speaks on JAY-Z giving him his Get By verse for free - couldn't afford it [VIDEO]

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"When I first talked to [Jay] about doing the 'Get By' remix, I sent him a message on a two-way pager and he hit me back months later but asked me for my email address and sent [the verse] to me," Kweli said. "And then when I seen him, I was like, 'Yo, thank you for that, I gotta pay you bro.' He was like, 'You can't afford to pay me for this.' It sounds harsh, but it was brutally honest. He was like, 'What I charge for verses is whole budgets. I'm not going to do that to you.'"

It's said that Hov's rate for a verse is anywhere between $200K to $1.5 mil. Can you imagine getting a verse from Hov and walking away without having to pay for it? Crazy!
 
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