Timbaland came from the era of the "super producer" so it should come as no surprise that he's seen some outrageous checks for his past work.
During a conversation on the The Producer Grind podcast, Timbaland revealed he could fetch nearly half a million for his production. "I actually get like, 300—$500k, back in the day,” he said. Asked why producers don't fetch as much these days, he added, "Because y'all don't put no value on yourself. ... We ain’t come from a world where you send beats; we come from when that bitch was tailor-made, you understand?"
Continuing to reflect on the past era, "The producer was respected way more," he noted. "You needed a dope producer as an artist. You needed that, and now you got YouTube. People putting beats, it’s just not the same. It’s just like Wild Wild West out there. So back then, there was a lot of value to the producer. ... You can still have some kind of value [now], you just gotta limit what you do, what you send out. ... Back then it was different times. I could say for the producer game, it was way better.”
Source: Youtube.com
