LeBron James rhymes along to Lil Wayne's 2008 hit "A Milli" during his appearance in a new Beats commercial promoting the brand's new Pill + produ ct.
In the ad, the NBA star is dressed to the nines and in the midst of enjoying a plush party, where drinks are aflow and the energy appears to be festive. After exchanging pleasantries with a fellow attendeee, James hears the faint sounds of "A Milli" playing from a Pill + sitting on a table, prompting him to declare that he has to "turn this up."
Upon raising the volume on the Pill +, LeBron begins to rap along to the song's sample-driven hook before the commercial cuts to a black screen with "The Predicament June 25" written across.
LeBron James Visits "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" at Rockefeller Center on July 14, 2015 in New York City.
The four-time NBA champ's show of approval towards Weezy's chart-topping classic is the latest instance in which the two phenom's have been connected, either directly or by circumstance. In 2009, Wayne appeared alongside Drake, Lil Wayne, and Eminem on "Forever," a single from the soundtrack to LeBron's More than a Game documentary.
The following year, he would predict that LeBron's Miami Heat would win the NBA championship, a declaration that failed to come to fruition, as the Heat fell to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals.
Lil Wayne performs onstage at the NBA 2K23 Launch Event at Rolling Greens on September 07, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
However, the Hot Boy's affinity for the pride of Akron shifted after James and Dwyane Wade allegedly snubbed him while he was sitting courtside when the Heat visited New Orleans to play his hometown Pelicans during the 2010-2011 NBA regular season.
All parties eventually buried the hatchet, with Wayne later comparing his own career and longevity to LeBron's. "I would say that I'm like a LeBron," the rapper said in 2023.
LeBron James With Lil Wayne
"I dropped my first solo album when I was 14, and that's the same album I'm talking about that went platinum. The phenom that came out and I stuck something that came out. And I've been doing this at this pace or higher ever since, just like him."
See the Beats Pill+ commercial starring LeBron James below.
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