Ĭomplex ranked its beat the 31st greatest hip hop beat of all time. Time critic Josh Tyrangiel named "A Milli" the number four song of 2008, and it was ranked as the number one song of 2008 in the MTV News Bigger Than the Sound poll. Rolling Stone named it the 10th best song of 2008, the 63rd best song of the 2000s, and the 486th best song of all time. īlender ranked it the number one song of 2008. The song won the Best Rap Solo Performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards. The line "I'm okay, but my watch sick" was originally from " Go Crazy" by Young Jeezy. In addition, the main vocal sample is from the Vampire Mix of " I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" by A Tribe Called Quest. While the early version plays the sample as it is, the final version adds a filter effect to the sample. The sample is different in both early and final versions. The song samples "Don't Burn Down the Bridge" by Gladys Knight & the Pips. "A Milli" was ranked the number one hip hop song of 2008 by MTV. They were rumored to appear on the re-release of Tha Carter III, until Wayne revealed that the aforementioned album would be a rap rock album called Rebirth with no connection to Tha Carter III. "A Milli" was played several times when sampling the record before its release, and was originally slated to appear on Tha Carter III in multiple versions as "skit-like" tracks, featuring artists such as Tyga, Cory Gunz, Hurricane Chris, and Lil Mama though the tracks never made the final cut. Then, a second version, with the first verse from the album version, a verse from Cory Gunz and the final two verses from the original version, was leaked prior to the album version.
The original version leaked early on several mixtapes. The song was released February 13, 2008, as the second official single from his sixth album Tha Carter III. " A Milli", abbreviated occasionally as " Milli", is a song by American rapper Lil Wayne.
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