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As the intolerably long wait for Tha Carter III gets into (god please let it be) the final weeks, Lil Wayne looks to be showing up with all barrels blazing. The autotune r&b of lead single "Lollipop" and lavish Kanye West production of potential C3 cut "Comfortable" represent the kind of savvy pop moves you'd expect from a guy recently getting airplay for his guest verse on Mario Barrett slow jam "Crying Out For Me (Remix)". Meanwhile, supposed "street" single "A Millie"-- which has been floating around in a couple of different variations but appears here in a version from the mixtape Street Resurrection 4-- gets back to the free-flowing rapping that Weezy has wowed us with in the past.

No guitar solos, no T-Pain-esque vocals, just 808 snare slaps and a droning "a millie, a millie" hook: That's "A Millie", as in, "a Young Money millionaire". The DJs drown out bits of Wayne's wordplay, some of which may have appeared in a previous freestyle, but admirers of Da Drought 3's hyperlinking lyrical jumps should enjoy the way Wayne big-ups both the almighty dollar and Allah, or invokes everything from "Party Like a Rockstar" and Andre 3000's relationship with Erykah Badu to, somewhat randomly, Gwen Stefani. "I don't owe you like two vowels," quoth the "no homo" homophone fan. Mr. Strapped Condoms even refers to himself as a venereal disease. The haters are already foaming at the mouth, but the rest of us know better than to rush the flow.

MP3:> Lil Wayne: "A Millie" [FILE REMOVED]
[Tha Carter III is due 05/13/08 on Cash Money/Universal/Young Money]