Lil Baby’s feature fee is proof that yesterday’s price is not today’s price.
During an interview with the The Experience Podcast with Big Loon this week, the 4PF rapper revealed he currently charges in the region of $250,000 to $350,000 for a guest verse.
That’s more than triple what Lil Baby was charging just two years ago, the same year he solidified himself as a star thanks to his chart-topping, record-breaking album My Turn and protest anthem “The Bigger Picture.”
“At this point it’s safe to say I want 100k for a feature,” he tweeted at the time.
Despite the lucrative revenue stream he’s built for himself, the Atlanta native admitted he isn’t really focused on churning out guest features right now.
“I don’t even be doing features no more,” Lil Baby said when asked about the price of his pen. “But like 300[K], 350[K]. 250[K], 300[K], something like that.
“But I ain’t been doing features lately. Like now, I’m about to put out an album, but if I don’t got an album or nothing going on, [it’s] like, why not?”
Lil Baby has delivered several standout guest verses in 2022 on Nicki Minaj’s “Do We Have a Problem?,” DJ Khaled’s “Staying Alive” and Future’s “Like Me,” among others.
The 27-year-old, who was crowned ASCAP’s Songwriter of the Year for a second consecutive year this past summer, has also dropped numerous singles of his own including “In a Minute,” “Detox” and, most recently, “Heyy.”
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The songs serve as warm-ups to Lil Baby’s highly anticipated third studio album It’s Only Me, which is set to arrive on Friday (October 14).
As the tracklist revealed earlier this week, the project clocks in at a lengthy 23 songs and boasts appearances from Future, Young Thug, Gunna, Nardo Wick, EST Gee and more.
That’s how you do it, Lil Baby. Price going up!
350k huh!? We c he tryin hard to catch-up to King Tekashi. Gud hustle but he not quite there yet.
That’s alot for mumble rap, I’d rather do it myself.
Maybe like 5 rappers will pay that price. Theres just too many mumble rappers out there and they all sound the same. Take advantage of your buzz while you can. Theres another teenager autotuning his vocals on a laptop as I type this. He will have the sound, the face tatts, the stupid haircut, and he makes you obselete.
nobody asking him for a feature is what he means to say. He don’t even wrap goood…
I needed a good laugh.. let’s see the numbers when that album drops and hope they match up.. that’s your feature price
payin this tool 250 – 300k to spit some garbage is like payin to watch the clouds move. shits wack