Style(s) music(aux) : Music

Nationality : United States

Bio:

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana) better known as Lil Wayne, is a platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated rapper and songwriter, and is known as the president of the New Orleans-based label Cash Money Records and the CEO of Young Money Entertainment.

He grew up as an only child (he now has a younger brother) in the poverty-stricken and crime-ridden Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans' 17th Ward. At the age of sixteen, his stepfather Reginald "Rabbit" Carter died.
In 1997, Wayne formed the Hot Boys along with Juvenile, Turk, and B.G., and they released their seminal debut CD "Get It How You Live." The record's success earned the young teenagers fans throughout the South and Midwest. He further distinguished himself on the Hot Boys' multi platinum-selling Universal debut, "Guerilla Warfare", which was released in 1998 and was followed by their 2003 release, "Let Em Burn."
In 1999, Wayne launched his solo career with the Platinum selling "The Block Is Hot." Lil Wayne followed up his successful debut with the Gold selling albums "Lights Out" in 2000 and "500 Degreez" in 2002, an allusion to Juvenile's "400 Degreez".
In the summer of 2004, Dwayne Carter released "Tha Carter" This album is marked as a personal milestone as he claimed to have finally perfected his trade. It was also "Tha Carter" that finally earned him mass notability outside the south as a talented lyricist, because at that time - and still today, southern rappers were stereotyped as having little to no lyrical ability. Tha Carter sold 878,000 copies in the United States and over 1 million copies worldwide.
On December 6, 2005 Wayne released "Tha Carter II" noticeably producing the album without the prominent beats of Mannie Fresh.
Tha Carter II sold more than 238,000 copies the first week of release debuting at no. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart and has been certified platinum.
Lil Wayne is now more and more considered as one of the top MC in the game.
"Tha Carter III to be released at the end of December is his sixth album.