Ne-yo - A Milli [video]…. ???
July 1, 2008
So Ne-yo took it a bit further and did a video for his A Millie freestyle…. i mean the boy got swagger on it, doesnt sound too bad rapping…. Who he is talking about specifically, i dunno…. hell if it sparks some sort of beef i wouldnt be surprised. We’ve done rapper vs rapper, East vs West vs South, Old School vs New (Ice-T and Soulja Boy), Producer vs Producer, Producer/artist vs DJ’s (JD and Lil wayne), i guess the only thing left is… R&B vs Hiphop…. figures.
Lil Wayne and T Pain “A Milli” @ the BET Awards
June 25, 2008
Lil Wayne, and T-Pain perform “A Milli” i guess this is number one million and one. Cuz i promise this beat just doesnt stop. I think i dream about this beat at night. A Milli A Milli A Milli…. and once more A Milli. Put it to rest now.
Yet anothe A-Milli freestyle… this time by….. Ne-Yo
June 21, 2008
This shit if officially dead. If Chris Brown didnt kill it, the million rappers who hopped on it, or Weezy doing his own remix, then Ne-Yo for surrreee killed it. And when i say killed it, i mean buried, stepped on it, basically this shit is turning into hot garbage. Bout time all you artists find a new beat to jump on…
Download: Ne-Yo - A Milli freestyle
A Milli-on niggas freestyling….
June 20, 2008
Ok so i just posted Ne-Yo’s A milli freestyle. Earlier last week i posted Drake’s, Jada’s, Jay’s, and Weezy’s. I didnt bother to include fabouous’ or the slew of other rappers’ artists (chris brown and ne-yo, rnb artists) versions. Not to say that Lil Mama’s or Fabolous, didnt kill. I dont know if i can take too many more versions of A Milli
Over at The Village Voice, Tom Breihan, graded 9 of the freestyles:
(A freestyle I like exactly as much as Wayne’s version would be 1.0 Wayne; one I like just slightly less is 0.9. I determine these things with total scientific rigor.)
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Jay-Z. Just masterful. Jay sounds more alive on this than he’s sounded since the fake retirement, more charged-up and delighted. (And he’s done great work since that fake retirement, but he’s done it while sounding bored.) He’s all over this beat, bringing back the intermittent quicktongue thing he used to use on Timbaland beats. He keeps mentioning a billion, like it’s a magic number, the number he dreams about now that he makes such ridiculous money that money is pretty much a theoretical thing anyway. (For the record, I’m guessing Jay is nowhere near billionaire status.) There’s also a whole lot of twisty and vague political stuff: “Sean Carter, Sean Bell / What’s the difference? Do tell / Fifty shots or fifty mil / Ain’t no difference, go to hell.” Obviously there’s a few pretty substantial differences between fifty bullets and fifty million dollars. But Jay’s idea here seems to be something like this: There’s still massive racism and oppression in the world, problems that me being really really rich won’t solve – but I am really rich. He follows that line up with this: “So brra, lick a shot for Barack Obama / Change gon’ come or I’ma buy the whole hood llamas on me.” And then there’s this: “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back / But when your boy reach a billion it’s a wrap / Off of rap? Yeah!” I love that yeah; he sounds like a little kid. 1.3 Wayne
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Fabolous. Just like on Wayne’s “Nothin’ On Me,” Fab’s delivery here is so cold and matter-of-fact that it takes a minute to notice how goddam funny all his punchlines are. On the first verse, he rhymes every line with illi motherfuckers: “What’s really the dilly with these silly motherfuckers / Bunch of fake-ass Milli Vanilli motherfuckers.” And just about every line hits like that; my favorite punchline is this one: “You can be a vic if you get silly, motherfuckers.” You can be a vic! That’s really smart! He ends the verse with this: “I’m like Obama to these silly motherfuckers / And you niggas is Clinton, hillbilly motherfuckers.” And then he explains the joke: “Nigga said you niggas is Clinton! Hillbilly motherfuckers! Hillary? Bill Cli… Fuck it. They don’t get it.” It’s just an awesomely cocky way to end it. If the not-as-great second verse wasn’t here, this would be 1.0 Wayne easy. 0.9 Wayne
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Lil Mama. A couple of months before Tha Carter III came out, Wayne said that instead of skits, he’d have quick “A Milli” freestyles throughout the album from younger rappers like Cory Gunz and Hurricane Chris and Lil Mama. I liked that idea, even if one of the rappers Wayne named was the utterly detestable Tyga, but it never happened. Maybe it never happened because Lil Mama gave Wayne a six-minute freestyle and he just couldn’t find room for it on the CD. I like Mama a lot, and she goes hard here, all precise and fired up. But I have no idea why she needed to keep going for six minutes. By the end, she stops making sense altogether, talking about going to the Carter Factory with Wayne. Still, this is incontestable proof that Lil Mama knows how to rap, something that some people still haven’t figured out. 0.7 Wayne
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Chris Brown. This kid’s feeling pretty confident these days, huh? He actually raps here, the first time I’ve heard him try that, and he manages not to embarrass himself. Like most R&B singers, he’s got this oddly prim and fussy delivery; you can hear exactly where each word starts and the next begins. On the version I’ve heard, all the cusswords are blurred out for some reason. I like this line: “A milli here and a million there / Selling out stadiums, million chairs.” (This is a teenage R&B singer we’re talking about here, so yeah, we’re grading on a curve.) When he finally goes back to singing at the end, he sounds awesome. And he compares himself to Wayne and Jay-Z. You have to like his moxie. 0.7 Wayne
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Cory Gunz and Jadakiss. Here’s a weird one. Why are these two on this track together? They don’t complement each other at all. The first version of “A Milli” I heard was the one with the really great fast-rap guest-verse from Cory. I was initially pretty pissed that he wasn’t on the final version of the song, but now I’m glad that it’s a full, uninterrupted immersion in Wayne’s addled silliness. Cory still rips this beat to shreds, speeding in and out of the track in a yammering nasal blur. I’m still not sure how it happened that the weird-looking guy who did half of “Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)” had a kid and that kid is turning out to be a great rapper, but there it is. Jada, meanwhile, sounds totally lost and sleepy, delivering a whole lot of boring tough-talk and just barely staying on top of the beat. He can do so much better than this. Cory: 0.9 Wayne. Jada: 0.4 Wayne.
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LL Cool J. Embarrassing. For some indefensible trendhumping reason, LL opted to deliver this whole freestyle through a T-Pain autotuner, which just sounds godawful. His punchlines all fall completely flat, but he still laughs at his own jokes. He rhymes with “get you killed” with “ly-ra-keel.” And he spends the entire second half threatening bloggers who hate on him, which I guess means me: “They say I need to get my flows tighter / Pop you in the temple while you’re typing, now you could be my ghostwriter.” Stop worrying about blogs, LL! Stop it with the autotuner, too. That’s so not you. You are not a child. 0.2 Wayne
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Gillie Da Kid, Bump J, Meek Meel, & Peedi Crack. Nobody really sounds good here. Gillie gives a whole bunch of boring death-threats, and the claims that Wayne stole his style from that guy get less credible every day. Peedi, who I usually really like, totally loses me with the gross riff about how he used to be shit-brown but now he’s money-green. The other two guys are squeaky and irritating. (It’s pretty funy how Meek Meel says “bling-bling on my neck and wrist” even though the only thing on his neck or wrist in the video is a Lance Armstrong LiveStrong bracelet.) But the video for this one is just incredible, like one of those cheap Rik Cordero YouTube videos except with all these disturbing and surreal close-ups on fish and lobsters smoking blunts and chopping each other in half. They use real dead fish and lobsters, too, and they’re all shiny and sickening. The whole thing is just unbelievably confusing. Why did all these random Philly rappers even make a video for their “A Milli” freestyle? And why is it such a headfuck? I’ve watched it like three times a day for the past couple of weeks, so somebody’s doing something right. Everybody: 0.3 Wayne (but the video is like 1.6 Wayne)
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Lil Wayne. Wednesday morning, when the insane and inspiring Carter III sales figures came out, Wayne came up with a new version. It’s fun hearing him on his victory lap: “A million sold, first day I went gold / How do I celebrate? Work on Tha Carter 4.” Pretty soon, he’s back to his usual randomness (”I’m the dude from Reading Rainbow, but in Roots”). But this version doesn’t have the nutso kamikaze sense of purpose that the original had. At one point, Wayne asks us if we can imagine Tha Carter 5. I can’t. At all. I just hope he’s alive and free long enough to make it. 0.7 Wayne
And of course my comment read: “but can we get a grade from that nigga Drake? (wheel chair jimmy)…” I’ve been damn near protesting that drake needs to be included… no im not stanning, im just sayin he’s a new comer that should be included all the same… anyways back on subject… here the A Milli rundown so far (let me know if i’ve missed any).
(Im just gonna provide blog links, too much to zshare everything)
Cory Gunz, / Jay Z, / Chris Brown, / Lil Mama, / Jadakiss, / LL Cool J, / Mims, / Tyga, / Gille, Bump J, Meek Mill, and Nitti / The Game / Drake
ok so im tired…. gimme a second
ok, so looks like i missed Cassidy, rick ross, jeezy, and a slew of other artists… im not posting em… im just too damn tired
and for those who havent heard Drake’s, here:
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