Lil Wayne's 'A Milli' Gets Remixed By Jay-Z, Chris Brown, LL Cool J, Lil Mama ... And The List Goes On

It feels like a million MCs have decided to jump on the Bangladesh-produced Lil Wayne track "A Milli." The track, which Wayne previewed exclusively for MTV News back in March, has gotten almost as many spins for the N.O. native as his #1 single "Lollipop" has.

The record's signature is a sample of a man's voice saying the song's title over glass-shattering bass and heavy drums. The instrumental seemed tailor-made for Wayne's Down South spazzin', leaping from topic to topic effortlessly. "He's a beast, he's a dog ... he's a muthaf---in' problem/ OK, you're a goon, but what's a goon to a goblin?"

Since the record took off as a street anthem, we've heard a remix with Wayne and Corey Gunz (Gunz, along with Lil Mama, Tyga and Hurricane Chris, were all originally supposed to have their versions of the song on Tha Carter III as separate interludes). Jay-Z (Hov's version is called "A Billi"), Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous, the Game and even Chris Brown have jacked the track for their freestyles — and that's just a short list of names.

"I just liked the beat," said LL Cool J, who rhymes over the beat on a record he calls "Zodiac Driller." That track appears on Cool J's first ever mixtape, the recently released Return of the G.O.A.T.

"I did the freestyle because the beat was hot in the streets," Fabolous said of his version. "I wasn't struck by anyone else's freestyle. I think Wayne rode the beat on the original, and the concept and format was good."

Lil Wayne, who just a couple of days ago dropped his own new freestyle over the beat, said he's heard everyone's work and doesn't mind at all. After all, Wayne has flipped plenty of people's beats in his day. Of all the freestyles, he had a blanket statement for the MCs: "Good go! Good go, that's it."

And while a lot of the rappers have had admirable performances over the record, plenty of people are saying it's time to move on.

"That beat is just crazy," DJ Green Lantern said Friday (June 20). "It's simple, but it's got a lot of personality to it. Rappers just started jumping on it left and right, and it became a monster. ... I hope Wayne's 'A Milli' remix where he raps about selling a million in one week closes it out. ... Hint, stop rapping on it now. Move on to another song from CIII."






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Michael Franti

   
Artist: Michael Franti

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Songs From The Front Porch: An Acoustic Collection

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 10


   
 Stay Human

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 22

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Since his years as a member of the Beatnigs piece in his early twenties, Michael Franti grew from an angry young hip-hopper with a political, socially conscious bent (the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Spearhead) to a isle of Man world Health Organization channeled his sincerity, social disquiet, and desire for change and integrated them with his love for music, especially old school R&B, soulfulness, and rap music. What he left hand behind in nervy, make-some-noise esthetic, he gained in compassion. And through his use of his possess raw ability -- charisma, sexual urge attract, sense of social iniquity -- he carried knocked out in his music a community-generated heat in much the same way as Gil Scott-Heron or Marvin Gaye.


Franti was adoptive at parentage by caucasian parents in the predominantly black community of Oakland, CA. That set of contradictory fortune instilled in him a hyper-awareness of his have cultural identity as did the sobering fact that his more thoughtful, less provocative style of expression was not recognized by the African-American audience that had embraced a harsher, more disputative faction of the pelvis hop movement. In 1986, Franti formed the drum'n'bass/industrial brace the Beatnigs with turntablist Rono Tse, disbanding afterwards one album. He and so formed the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, whose combination of jazz-influenced heavy rap music set verboten to challenge the physicalism and misogyny of what had suit mainstream rap.


His adjacent project, Spearhead produced the critically acclaimed Home plate in 1990. The album contained his biggest individual, "Fix in the Bucket," a thoughtful lament on the quandary of the homeless person, and "Positive," which addressed the growing AIDS epidemic. The album boasted whizz funk samplings, wiggly guitar vamps, and soulful, melodic tracks about fellowship and social shabbiness. 1997's Chocolate Supa Highway was not as pop-friendly as Home plate, merely neither did its themes of kidnappings and constabulary brutality loan themselves to such open approachability. Its admixture of harsher musical styles -- techno, tilt, and funk -- was a step forward for Franti as his world view broadened and deepened. In 2001, Franti released Ride out Human. In it he expresses his ire at the system, his advocacy of love, and his belief in freedom through individuation and self-expression through a lay out of songs that orb about a pretended death penalization grammatical case. In it, his embracement of the genres that divine him is achieved with fluency.


Songs from the Front Porch was Franti's first proper solo record album, appearance in 2003. It was an acoustic matter that had him direction regular more on his vocalizing, merely not at the expense of his thinking, thought-provoking lyrics. In 2005, Love Kamikaze: The Lost Sex Singles & Collectors' Remixes appeared. Again billed solely to Franti, it was a accumulation of Spearhead tracks that didn't quite fit into the albums they were originally recorded for (as well as a couple different mixes from the Appease Human album). In 2006, Franti and Spearhead released Call Fire! The album was partially recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, and, along with the record and film I Know I'm Not Alone, was component of a trilogy that was themed as documenting Franti's recent visits to Israel, Palestine, and Iraq.

'Tinker Bell' sets release

"Peter Pan" spinoff marks first time the character speaks

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has set an Oct. 28 release date for "Tinker Bell," the long-planned-for direct-to-video "Peter Pan" spinoff. The CG-animated film, due on both standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc, marks the first time the iconic animated character will speak.


Tinker Bell will be voiced by Mae Whitman, recently signed to replace Brittany Murphy, who had been associated with the project when it was first announced nearly two years ago. Also lending vocal talents to the film are America Ferrara, Lucy Liu and Anjelica Huston.

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