There were two producers on the track, Jim Jonsin and Deezle (real name Darius Harrison), Jonsin recalled in an interview with Rhapsody, “I originally made the track in a session for Danity Kane. He had made his name as Aaliyah’s main songwriter having penned her biggest hits Rock the Boat, More Than a Woman and Try Again. He passed away in February 2008, just two weeks before the record was released. Static Major was the pseudonym of Stephen Garrett, a one-time member of the group Playa and who sadly died after he was diagnosed with a rare condition called myasthenia gravis, a disorder that causes muscle weakness and fatigue. We had some females in there and they were going crazy.” The song was inspired by 50 Cent’s Candy Shop and the Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps, both of which were from 2005. Everybody in the studio knew this was the one. The decision to make it the single was evident right after I finished recording it. He brought the song to me with his vocals already on there, the beat was already done and I just laid my vocals to it. Lollipop’s official credit is Lil Wayne featuring Static Major which would imply that the former was the ‘main’ person, but actually Static probably should get the main credit as Lil Wayne told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview of how the song came together: “My homeboy Static, the guy who’s on the song with me, it was all his idea. 2 and it was on this song that the work bling was used for the very first time. In 1998 he was the featured rapper on Big Tymers song Millionaire Dream, a track which appeared on the album How You Luv That Vol. Soon after being signed the label’s co-owner, Bryan Williams decided to split them up and let them have their own solo careers. He joined forces with the rapper B.G (short for Baby Gangsta), whose real name is Christopher Dorsey to form the hip-hop duo the B.G’z and were signed to Cash Money records when Wayne was just 11. He wrote his first rap song at the age of eight and then began rapping at local parties. He calls himself Lil Wayne rather than Lil Dwayne as he was originally named after his father but has nothing to do with him now. His mother was a chef and had her son when she was 19 while his father, also called Dwayne, abandoned the family when Dwayne Jr. Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. ![]() I’ll tell you, it was Lollipop by Lil Wayne, a UK number 26 hit but a five-week number one in America. Whenever it comes to guessing what would come out on top in any poll about pop music, I would like to think I would have half a chance of guessing and if you’re a music fan you probably would too, but if I was to ask you what you think the best-selling digital single of 2008 was – it was also the highest selling ringtone of the 2000s – I lay you money you would never guess.
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