2008: #10 - "A Milli"

Lil Wayne might be a little overexposed (OK, a lot) and kind of passe right now, but when we first heard this on the radio during an especially weak time for pop music, we thought we were hearing a transmission from another planet. With an absolutely insane sample that could stand toe-to-toe with any Golden Era rap track or peak-RZA material - and is essentially the entire musical backing for the whole song - "A Milli" is almost too much of a good thing. But it's a really good thing. And while further scrutiny has exposed a lot of Wayne's rhymes to be, well, stupid, rather than other-worldly, the track still floated high above most others in 2008.

(P.S. - R.I.P, Mr. Reatard)