Things couldn’t have gotten better until he released what could be tagged as his biggest album of all time, which he titled Cater III, released on 10 June 2008. The Carter II was rewarded with a gold certification from RIAA on 18 January 2006, and three months later, it earned platinum. Once more, the album achieved an incredible feat and even surpassed the record of its predecessor by debuting at Number 2 on the Billboard’s 200 album chart and sold over 240,000 copies in the first week. He released his fifth studio album, Cater II which served as a sequel to Tha Carter and was released by Universal Distribution in collaboration with Cash Money Records on 6 December 2005. However, for an undisclosed reason in 2007, he gave up management for both labels. Lil Wayne was named the president of Cash Money in the summer of 2005 and made a remarkable feat that year when he founded the record label Young Money Entertainment an imprint of Cash Money Records. The album also received gold certification from RIAA. 5 on the Billboard’s 200 and sold 116,000 copies in the first week at the US market. He had his fourth album, Tha Carter released by Cash Money Records on 29 June 2004 that debuted at No. He came up with two more albums, subsequently Lights Out in 2000 and 500 Degreez in 2002, but none could match his first Tha Block Is Hot record.
The album achieved incredible feats and even reached No 3 on Billboard 200, which earned him a Platinum certification by RIAA. Later on, Lil Wayne gained the impetus to come up with a debut solo album which he titled, Tha Block Is Hot, and was released by Cash Money Records on 2 November 1999. Lil Wayne soon became a vital member of another hip hop group known as Hot Boys formed in 1996, and in 1999 the group released a second studio album titled, Guerrilla Warfare, which topped the Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and climbed up to number 5 on Billboard 200 bringing the group and Lil Wayne much deserved recognition.
He later joined the American teenage hip-hop singers duo known as The B.G.’z, who featured rapper Lil Doogie to release the group’s debut album titled, True Story on 29 July 1995. As a result, he ( Lil Wayne) was included in Cash Money Records. Lil Wayne discovered his talent at age 8, writing rap songs before he was scouted by Bryan Williams, who is an American rapper, record producer, and co-founder of the top American record label known as Cash Money Records in 1991.īryan Williams, who also goes by the names Birdman and Baby, was impressed by Lil Wayne‘s raw talent and put it upon himself to nurture the young and inexperienced Lil Wayne. He decided this time around to enroll in an online school which was when he chose to learn at the University of Phoenix, an online institution where he studied Psychology. He later enrolled at the University of Houston in January 2005 and dropped out a few months in due to his busy lifestyle.
He was later transferred to Eleanor McMain Secondary School, where he studied for two years.įew years into Marion Abramson Senior High School, Lil Wayne dropped out of school to focus on his musical career. The young Lil Wayne was admitted to a gifted program at Lafayette Elementary School. His Step-father died on 20 July 1997 after he was reportedly kidnapped from a nightclub and eventually was thrown out of a moving vehicle after he was shot. His mother, Jacida Carter, remarried, this time to a man named Reginald McDonald, who is presently dead and who Lil Wayne considers his ‘real father.’ He even tattooed the name of his deceased Step-father. He wanted to end his life after his mother insisted that he must end his rap-related affiliations. Things even got hey-wire in 1994 when 12-year-old Lil Wayne sustained self-inflicted gunshots injury to the chest in an attempt to commit suicide. As a result, his mother had to make life worthwhile as a cook. Lil Wayne‘s life was made worse at age 2 when his parents divorced, and his father reportedly abandoned the family. He spent few years of his life in the impoverished Hollygrove neighborhood located in New Orleans, Louisiana. in the inhabited city of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States of America.
Lil Wayne was born on September 27, 1982, with the original name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. Reginae Carter, Kameron Carter, Dwayne Carter III, Neal Carter He is known for his hit songs, mixtapes, and singles, especially albums, A Milli and Lollipop.
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