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LIL WAYNE

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September 27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. In 1991, at the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo  alongside fellow New Orleans-based . In 1996, Lil Wayne joined the  group  with his Cash Money label-mates  and Lil’ Doogie (who now goes by B.G.). Hot Boys debuted with  that same year. Most of the group’s success came with their -selling album(1999) and the 1999 single “. Along with being the flagship artist of Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne is also the CEO) of his own label imprint, which he founded in 2005.

Lil Wayne’s solo debut album (1999) was  by the  (RIAA). His subsequent albums, (2000) and  (2002), went on to be Wayne reached higher popularity with his fourth album (2004), which was led by the single “” and his appearance on ‘s single “”, that same year. The album was followed by (2005), as well as several and collaborations throughout 2006 and 2007. Wayne gained more prominence with his sixth album  (2008), which became his most successful album to date, with first-week sales of over one million copies in the United States. The album won the.

Following the success of Tha Carter III, Wayne decided to record aesque album titled . The album, released in 2010, was certified gold by the RIAA, despite a generally negative critical response. In March 2010, Lil Wayne began serving an 8-month jail sentence in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007. Wayne’s eighth album  (2010), was released during his incarceration. His 2011 album and first following his release,  sold 964,000 copies in its first week of availability in the United States. It includes the singles “, “” and “On September 27, 2012, Lil Wayne passed  as the male with the most entries on thechart, with 109 songs. The record has since been passed by other artists.Lil Wayne’s twelfth studio album has been delayed multiple times and has no scheduled release date. Lil Wayne has sold over 100 million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in United States, making him

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was born on September 27, 1982, and grew up in the impoverished neighborhood of His mother, a cook, gave birth to him when she was 19 years old. His parents divorced when he was 2, and his father permanently abandoned the family. Although Wayne and  have a father–son relationship and Birdman calls Carter his son, Wayne’s biological father and namesake (Dwayne Carter) is still alive. Lil Wayne has also spoken about his deceased stepfather, Reginald “Rabbit” McDonald, who he has said he considers his real father. Carter has a tattoo dedicated to Rabbit, who was murdered before Carter became a star.Carter enrolled in the gifted program of Lafayette Elementary School and in the drama club of  Wayne attended McMain in the early 1990s for two years. He moved to the 

In a CBS interview with  Wayne described why he goes by the name of “Wayne” instead of his given name, Dwayne. Carter explained, “I dropped the D because I’m a junior and my father is living and he’s not in my life and he’s never been in my life. So I don’t want to be Dwayne, I’d rather be Wayne”. Couric asked Wayne if his father knew of this and Wayne replied with a smile, “He knows now.”

He wrote his first rap song at age eight.In the summer of 1991, he met  rapper and owner of . Carter recorded freestyle raps on Williams’s answering machine, leading him to mentor the young Carter and include him in Cash Money-distributed songs. He also recorded his first ever  album with rapper . At the time, Carter was 11, and B.G. was 14, and was billed as “When he was 12, he played the part of the in his middle school drama club’s production of  At age 12, he accidentally shot himself with a 9 mm handgun, and off-duty police officer Robert Hoobler drove him to the hospital.At McMain Magnet School, Carter was an honors student, but he dropped out at the age of 14 to focus on a musical career

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