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A Milli

"A Milli"
Milli.jpg
Single by Lil Wayne
from the album Tha Carter III
Released February 13, 2008 (2008-02-13) (radio)
April 23, 2008 (2008-04-23) (digital)
Format CD, digital download
Genre Hip hop
Length 3:41
Label Cash Money, Universal Motown
Writer(s) Dwayne Carter, Jr., Shondrae Crawford, Quentin Cook, C. Hester
Producer(s) Bangladesh
Lil Wayne singles chronology
"Lollipop"
(2008)
"A Milli"
(2008)
"Love in This Club, Part II"
(2008)

"A Milli", abbreviated occasionally as "Milli", is a song by American hip hop recording artist Lil Wayne. The song was released February 13, 2008 as the second official single from his highly acclaimed sixth album Tha Carter III.

The original version leaked early on several mixtapes. Then, a second version, with the first two verses from the original version, a verse from Cory Gunz and the final verse from the album version, was released prior to the album version. "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. 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 ranked the #1 Hip-Hop song of 2008 by MTV. The song samples "Death & Destiny" by Switch Tha Weirdoo and "Don't Burn Down the Bridge" by Gladys Knight & the Pips.

The music video was shot on June 23, 2008, in Los Angeles, California, (the same day as the video for "Got Money").

The video premiered on 106 & Park July 2, 2008. It consists of Lil Wayne preparing for the shoot of his following single "Got Money". The video, which was directed by Dayo Harewood, Dwayne Carter (Lil Wayne himself) & Jeff Panzer, features appearances by Birdman (giving Wayne his brand new car for his record sales), Lil Twist, T-Streets, Gudda Gudda, Kidd Kidd and Brisco.


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