
I'm So Paid
Coogi paid the entire million-dollar bill for the Miami video, and Detail's beat still outshines it.

Coogi paid the entire million-dollar bill for the Miami video, and Detail's beat still outshines it.

Fat Joe found no club record built around throwing money, so Scott Storch cut one at the Hit Factory.

Ant Banks flipped a Bootsy Collins sample for a farewell album that went platinum, with Parliament-Funkadelic on the hook.

Nic Nac's beat borrows from "Money Ain't a Thang," and three regional versions carried it thirty-six weeks on the chart.

Jim Jonsin built the beat from the Rocky II theme, and it leapt seventy places to number one, a chart record.

Dallas Austin wrote it, produced it, played bass and keys, and slipped a Sinatra snippet under Cantrell's revenge.

Ric Wake heard the demo, played it for Lopez, and both loved it; it went to number one in Britain.

A guitar line lifted from the Top Gun theme, Mannie Fresh on the boards, and ESPN running it all summer.

Filmed among Aston Martins in Miami, with J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's beat and Drake turning Ross's luxury boast wistful.

Two Shepherd's Bush friends hiding behind the initials J and T, falsetto stacked over a warehouse full of dancers.

Angelakos built each verse from a man in his own family who immigrated, then set financial ruin to synths.

Kool and the Gang's Hollywood Swinging flipped by Puffy and Deric Angelettie, and Mase's drawl making effort look optional.

Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" under a "Break My Stride" hook, six weeks at number one, and Mase arrives.

Cut in Virginia Beach with Danja co-producing, Keri Hilson co-writing, and a hook that shrugs at the whole courtship.

A hustler's goodbye scored by the New York Philharmonic, Sonny Kompanek conducting, with Bob Dylan cameoing in the video.

A DeBarge interpolation from 1982, Jay E producing, and Nelly making must be the money a national catchphrase.

Wardell Quezergue brought five artists to Malaco in a borrowed school bus; Stax passed, then Knight's put-down sold millions.

Snowed into a Prince Edward Island farmhouse, Rankin wrote a proposal song; VanGaalen cut it in Calgary.