Lil Wayne's current single is one of the biggest songs from Tha Carter III, but the Fireman nearly didn't receive "Got Money" � the record was originally intended to be a Pitbull collaboration with T-Pain.
"Shout-out to Pitbull, he helped us put it together," Skillz � of the production team behind the cut, Play N Skillz � said of the cut. "It's the biggest record out right now, and we're qualification it rain."
"I did the record back when I was on TVT [Records], and alas TVT didn't clear the song," Pitbull explained late in Houston.
"That's a crazy story," Play, the more vocal of the couple, said Monday. "We went to the West Coast and demoed the record with the skeleton surcharge on the track. ... Going a little further back up than that, when we first made the flap in New York, [the studio] helpless the bunk. Skillz is a big melody guy, so the next good morning he came back and remade the melody. We remade the beat in five to 10 minutes."
Play N Skillz sat on the solicit of "Got Money" for three months, until they began working on Pitbull's The Boatlift album in Miami. They played Pit the beat, and he went wild.
"He jumped on top of the couch and was going crazy," Play added. "He was like, 'Man, I'mma pay back T-Pain or Akon on the disk.' " Obviously it didn't work extinct for Pit, but "Got Money" went through a few more than MCs on its room to Wayne.
"We played it for Slim Thug; Slim didn't platter it," Play explained. "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 creative person.' 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.
"Pain changed the hook up some," the producer continued. "It was the same topic � it was about the money, the original one. He exactly changed the hook up some."
Play N Skillz � whose past smashes let in Chamillionaire's "Ridin' Dirty" and Kia Shine's "Krispy" � are hoping the success of "Got Money" will continue their wave of hit records. They're scheduled to do work with Fabolous and have already set new tracks for their own soph album, Out Tha Box, as well as LPs by Hurricane Chris, Paul Wall, Slim from 112 and 50 Cent's coming Before I Self Destruct.
"Sha Money XL is selfsame involved in the young project," Skillz said. "Everything is third person with 50. He's not really a guy wHO goes in the studio with the producers. We send him the joints."
"Our rhythm on the drum pattern, we had to switch it up a little morsel," Play aforementioned. "[50 Cent] said he wanted to go back to the boom-bap hardcore gangsta stuff. We tried to match his stylus. I think 50 is gonna come back. He's a hitmaker. He's written a set of hits for a lot of people. Sha told me [50's] acquiring back in the Get Rich or Die Tryin' mode. 50 is a person world Health Organization doesn't like to love how the producer is. He simply likes to go in with the music. But Sha Money XL is going crazy for the tracks we sent."
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