A trumpet blast over the opening of Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” has turned into one of college football’s favorite new sounds.
The clip comes from Herbie Hunkele, who has spent years using his trumpet to give popular songs a different edge. He had already built a following, but his July 7 Instagram post pushed him into a different orbit entirely.
He titled it, "A Milli but Wayne trusted me to start the song for whatever reason." The video has drawn more than 1.7 million likes on Instagram and has been reposted more than 337,000 times.
On TikTok, it has more than 4 million likes.
College football fans latched on quickly, and the schools followed. Mississippi State was first to turn the audio into a hype video, posting it on July 13. That clip has more than 90,000 Instagram likes, and Mississippi State has also invited Hunkele to perform live at its opener September 5 against Louisiana-Monroe.
BYU joined in next, using the same musical mashup for a July 18 hype video that has more than 76,000 Instagram likes.
Nebraska came after that, posting its own version on August 1. That video has more than 30,000 Instagram likes.
The reaction online has been almost as entertaining as the clip itself. Under the BYU post, Instagram user keonpolee wrote, "This is about to be the official edit for every team."
On Mississippi State’s post, _danielvillar said, "The number of band directors putting this in the lineup is going to be insane." Plenty of the other replies were just strings of fire emojis.
Hunkele has also put his trumpet to Dr. Dre and Tupac’s 1995 hit, “California Love,” and UCLA used that for its football hype video.
If the numbers are any indication, this trend may not be done spreading yet.
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