Lil Wayne

 Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born on September 27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American musician, rapper, writer, and record producer. At the age of 12, he was signed to Birdman's record label Cash Money Records. He was the youngest artist on the label. 3 Wayne was the main performer for Cash Money Records until June 2018, when he decided to quit the label. [4] Regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation by XXL, he has often been called one of the greatest rappers ever of his time.In 1995, Wayne was put in a duo with label-mate B.G. (at the time known as Lil Doogie) and they recorded an album, True Story, released that year, even though Wayne (at the time known as Baby D) only appeared on three tracks. 8. Wayne, B.G. Afterward, Wayne and B.G. joined the south hip-hop band Hot Boys with Cash Money label-mates Juvenile and Turk in 1997. The group released their debut album, Get It How You Live! in October that year. The Hot Boys became popular following the release of their album Guerrilla Warfare (1999) and the single "Bling Bling". [citation needed Lil Wayne's debut solo album Tha Block Is Hot (1999) was his first solo album and he grew in recognition with his fourth album Tha Carter (2004) and the fifth album Tha Carter II (2005), as well as several mixtapes and collaborations in 2006 and 2007. His sixth album Tha Carter III (2008) brought him to the forefront in the music industry. The album sold more than one million copies in its first week. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and also featured the hit singles "A Milli", "Got Money" (featuring T-Pain) and "Lollipop" (featuring Static Major)--the latter being his first single to be ranked at the top on the Billboard Hot100. February of 2010, Wayne released his seventh studio album, Rebirth, which experimented with rap-rock and received mostly negative reviews. The album was released a month later in March of this year, Lil Wayne began serving 8 months in jail in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007. His eighth studio album I Am Not a Human Being (2010) was released while he was in prison, while his 2011 album Tha Carter IV was released after his release. Within its initial week in the United States, Tha Carter IV sold 964,00 copies. After several delays, his 12th studio album Tha Carter V came out in 2018. After several delays, Wayne's thirteenth album, Funeral was released in 2020. He has won five Grammy Awards, eleven BET Awards as well as four Billboard Music Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards. With 109 tracks He was the first male artist with more entries on the Billboard Hot 100. [14] 15] Lil Wayne also currently serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) of his own label, Young Money Entertainment.