Its become one of the biggest songs off Lil Wayne’s Carter III album but the producer’s behind the record Play N Skillz have revealed that the beat was offered to a few MC’s before Lil Wayne got his hands on it.
Speaking to MTV, the producers said
“We played it for Slim Thug; Slim didn’t record it … Plies passed up on it. Rick Ross passed on it. Tum Tum recorded on it, but it didn’t work out.
Pain’s people reached out and said, ‘We’re taking the song back with our hook. We’re gonna give it to a really big artist.’ They ended up telling me it was Wayne. No problem. A week later, I get an MP3, and Wayne is spazzing out on the record”.
The producers also revealed that Pitbull had the track first
“He jumped on top of the couch and was going crazy … He was like, ‘Man, I’mma get T-Pain or Akon on the record.’ ” Obviously it didn’t work out for Pit, but “Got Money” went through a few more MCs on its way to Wayne.
