Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. His career began in 1995, at 12, when rapper Birdman signed him, joining Cash Money Records as the youngest label member. From then on, Wayne was the flagship artist of Cash Money Records before ending his association with the company in June 2018. Regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation by XXL, he has often been cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. In 1995, Wayne was put in a duo with label-mate B.G. and they recorded an album, True Story, released that year, although Wayne only appeared on three tracks. Wayne and B.G. soon joined the southern hip hop group Hot Boys, with Cash Money label-mates Juvenile and Turk in 1997; they released their debut album Get It How U Live! in October that year. The Hot Boys became popular following the release of the album Guerrilla Warfare and the song "Bling Bling". Lil Wayne's solo debut album Tha Block Is Hot was his solo …show more content…
Tha Carter II sold over 238,000 copies in its first week of release, debuting at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide. The lead single "Fireman" became a hit in the US, peaking at 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other singles included "Grown Man" with Currensy, "Hustler Musik", and "Shooter" with R&B singer Robin Thicke. Carter also appeared on a remix of Bobby Valentino's "Tell Me", which rose to number 13 on the U.S. R&B Charts. In 2005, Carter was named president of Cash Money, and in the same year he founded Young Money Entertainment as an imprint of Cash Money. However, as of late 2007, Carter reported having stepped down from the management of both labels and had handed management of Young Money over to Cortez
That same year he started his own label called "Young Money Ent" which includes artist such as Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Tyga. He also stepped in and became president of Cash Money. The following year Lil Wayne and birdman would release their joint album titled "Like Father, Like Son" which included hits such as "Stuntin like my
Due to legal issues with the name, he later adopted a second stage name “The Notorious B.I.G.” In the 1990s Sean Combs, AKA "P. Diddy,” heard Biggie Smalls’ demo tape and quickly signed him with Uptown Records. In 1992 Combs put Smalls on the remix of Mary J. Blige’s song Real Love, giving the rapper his first national exposure. The following year Smalls’ debut single Party and Bulls**t was released. That same year Combs separated from Uptown Records to begin his own Record Label, Bad Boy Entertainment, and Wallace followed him under the name of Notorious
Biography and family- Sean John Combs, professionally known P. Diddy, Puff Daddy and Diddy, was born on 4 November, 1969, in Harlem, New York. He was born to Janice and Melvin Earl Combs. His mother Janice was a model and his father was an associate of Frank Lucas, a drug dealer. He grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. He is a rapper, songwriter, singer, record producer, entrepreneur and an actor as well.
Tyrell Traylor was born october 31.1996 and raised on the southside of chicago. At a young age traylor used to watched many music videos and watching them fueled the start up for his love of music. At the beginning he was addicted to the catchy tune of jay-z’s “big pimpin” and soon he started learning the lyrics. sometimes by himself, traylor would imagined himself in concert freestyling his own lyrics. This is when traylor knew he found his own love for music and that there was the beginning of his passion.
Top 5 African Americans who deserve more Respect Than Lil Wayne or Drake Lil Wayne and Drake are two rappers that are very popular. However, they do have their naysayers, and rightfully so I might add. There are so many other African American people who deserve way more respect than Drake and Lil Wayne. NUMBER 1 Madame CJ Walker is the woman responsible for creating hair lotion for black women. Way back in the 1800 's, she was born into slavery and became an entrepreneur.
Christopher Jefferson R. Woodson Music Appreciation 11 December 2015 Final Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Michael Carter, Jr. was born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, LA. He was born in a city known for its jazz, swing, and blues music. He began rapping at 8. Dwayne was signed to a record label Cash Money.
(Drake, West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem, 2009) Lebron James’ legacy will last forever be
Biggie Smalls The notorious B.I.G has one of the most known legacies in rap history. In his eventful but short life he put out two albums and got many awards for his work. Biggie smalls had experienced a relatively rough childhood surrounded by drugs. But through all that he had found success.
After this release Cash, Grant, and Perkins visited Sun Records with hopes of landing an audition. The gang landed an audition and the producer loved their stuff. The first song they came out with after signing with Sun Records was “Hey Porter” (“Johnny Cash” Naked History). After the audition they officially signed with Sun Records. Johnny Cash and the “Tennessee Two” produced “Cry, Cry, Cry”, it peaked at 14 on billboard charts.
Gucci Mane is set to release his next album The State vs. Radric Davis on Warner Bros. Records December 8, 2009.[5] Its first single, "Wasted" featuring Plies, was originally from Mane's 2009 mixtape Writing on the Wall. It peaked at #36 on the Hot 100, #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and #3 on the Rap Songs making it Gucci Mane's most successful single to date. The second single is "Spotlight" feauring Usher.
n 1986, at the age of 22, Wright had allegedly earned as much as US$250,000 from dealing drugs. However, after his cousin was shot and killed, he decided that he could make a better living in the Los Angeles hip hop scene, which was growing rapidly in popularity.[13] He started recording songs during the mid-1980s in his parents '
His name is Christopher Wallace, but most of you know him as one of his multiple stage names such as: Notorious B.I.G, Biggie Smalls, and Big Papa. At a young age he got into drug dealing which was easy considering his surroundings in Brooklin. With those circumstances it was kinda hard to not get involved with bad stuff. After getting arrested for selling crack, he decided to give music the old college try, after he met Puff Daddy or as others know P. Diddy. Like Tupac his life also ended with a “bang” in 1997.
He’s also a leader in Def Jam Records, creating a clothing line. What I know marrying the women singer of his dreams Beyonce Knowles in 2008. Early life He was the last of her four children of his mother.
The single, "Go D.J." did well on the rap, hip-hop, and pop charts. Rolling Stone critic Christian Hoard said that "Wayne's syrupy drawl sounds more dextrous than ever" on the album. afage Quickly following up this latest wave of success, Wayne released Tha Carter II in December 2005. The album debuted at the No. 2 spot on the Billboard pop charts and brought more critical praise for Wayne.
In one of his albums 808s and Heartbreak which came out a year after his mother’s death, Kanye did not rap but instead sung in an auto tune voice. One thing that Kanye is known for is his shoe line Yeezy which has been out since 2006 with Nike then switching to Adidas later on. Kanye married Kim Kardashian on May 24th 2014, they later on had a child named North West and Saint West. West and Jay-Z were very close friends and their relationship is very complicated because Kanye came into the music industry through Jay-Z’s label and they were like brothers but in during Kanye's time at Jay-Z’s company Tidal there was a dispute about money causing Kanye to desert Tidal.