1 on the Billboard magazine Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. Hot Boys' debut album Get It How U Live! was released the same year, followed in 1999 by the group's major-label debut Guerrilla Warfare, which reached No. At age 15, Carter was the youngest member at that time. In 1997, Carter joined the Hot Boys along with rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Turk. At Marion Abramson Senior High School, Carter was an honor student but dropped out.
He also accidentally shot himself with a. When he was 12, he played the part of the Tin Man in his middle school drama club's production of The Wiz. He also recorded his first ever collaboration album True Story with rapper B.G. Carter recorded freestyle raps on Williams's answering machine leading him to mentor the young Carter and include him in Cash Money-distributed songs. In the summer of 1991, he met Bryan Williams, rapper and owner of Cash Money Records. He wrote his first rap song at age eight. Carter enrolled in the gifted program of Lafayette Elementary School and in the drama club of Eleanor McMain Secondary School. His two parents were divorced when he was 2. and grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. In March 2010, Lil Wayne began serving an 8 month prison sentence in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007. Lil Wayne released his debut rock album, Rebirth, in 2010 to primarily negative reception from critics even though the album eventually would go gold. It included the number-one single "Lollipop" and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His most successful album, Tha Carter III, was released in 2008 which went on to sell 1.1 million copies in the U.S. In 20, Lil Wayne released several mixtapes and appeared on several popular rap and R&B singles. In 2005, the sequel to Tha Carter, Tha Carter II, was released. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot, selling over one million copies in the U.S.Īlthough his next two albums Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002) were not as successful (only reaching Gold status), Lil Wayne reached higher popularity in 2004 with Tha Carter, which included the single "Go D.J." Wayne also appeared on the Destiny's Child top ten single "Soldier" that year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group's major selling album Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that year. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Turk. At age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G. (born September 27, 1982) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.
Labels Young Money, Cash Money, Universal MotownĪssociated acts Big Tymers, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Cash Money Millionaires, Hot Boys, Lloyd, Kevin Rudolf, Juelz Santana, T-Pain, Young Money Lil Wayne Performing at the Beacon Theatre on July 23, 2007