Biography on Lil Wayne
Biography
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was grew up an only child (now
has a younger brother) in the poverty-stricken and
crime-ridden Holly grove neighbourhood of New Orleans'
17th Ward. At the age of sixteen, his stepfather
Reginald "Rabbit" Carter died.
His first contact with hip-hop was listening to
local Cash Money Records artists like Pimp Daddy, whom he would credit as his earliest
influences. Wayne began rapping at block parties as a
child, and his performance at one of them caught the ear
of Lil Slim, a Cash Money rapper also from the
neighbourhood, who soon after the show gave him his phone
number. He went on an autograph signing session with Lil
Slim, he met Cash Money Records owners, Brian "Baby"
Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams. His free
styling
abilities impressed the Williams brothers, but they
didn't sign him at first. 11-year old Wayne started to
record freestyles on Baby's answering machine and
haunted Cash Money offices nearly every day. When Baby
saw so much engagement in the young rapper, he soon
signed him and hooked up with another newcomer Lil'
Doogie to form
The B.G.'z. The group released their first and only
album, True Story, in 1995.
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'
platinum selling Universal debut Guerrilla Warfare
released in 1998, followed by their 2003 release Let Em
Burn.
In 1999, Wayne launched his solo career with the release
of The Block Is Hot. This was followed by Lights Out in
2000 and 500 Degrees in 2002, an allusion to Juvenile's
400 Degrees.
In 2004, Wayne 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 southern
rappers were stereotyped as having little to no lyrical
ability.
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 debuting at no. 2 on the Billboard Top
200 albums chart and has been certified platinum. The
lead single off the album, "Fireman", became a hit in
the US, peaking at 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The second single, "Grown Man", was solicited to urban
radios in January of 2006 in hopes of spreading to Top
40 Mainstream and then to the Hot 100, but failed to do
so and failed to receive any attention due to lack of
promotion and no video. The third
single "Hustler Music" received a video and gained minor
attention also. "Hustler Musik" reached #87 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Recently Wayne was recruited by the Boyz N Da Hood as
their fourth member after Young Jeezy left the group to
engage in his solo career. Due to scheduling conflicts
involving the promotion of The Carter II, he would never
be formally named an active member of Boyz N Da Hood but
maintains a very good relationship with the group
recording new tracks with them often. Florida rapper
Rick Ross was rumoured to then replace Wayne and in
essence, Young Jeezy but he also has denied that he will
be an official member of the group. Lil Wayne will also
be featured on Roman Verona's up coming mix CD and LP
due out soon.
In 2006 Lil Wayne released his critically acclaimed
sequel to his Dedication mix tape with DJ Drama called
Dedication 2. On it, he included an outro track entitled
"Georgia....Bush" on which he addresses the problems
surrounding the government's response to Hurricane
Katrina in his native New Orleans, Lousiana and also
places a large amount of blame on President George W.
Bush. The title comes from the chorus lyric: "Hurricane
Katrina, we should called it Hurricane Georgia Bush."
The track was recorded on the beat to Ludacris' single
"Georgia" which sampled the Ray Charles track "Georgia
On My Mind". This song is followed by a freestyle called
"Weezy's Ambitions" over Tupac Shakur's "Ambitions Az a
Ridah". The freestyle was originally done on BET's Rap
City following the release of The Carter II.
Lil Wayne is set to release two collaboration LPs.
Originally, the mixtape I Can't Feel My Face with Juelz
Santana was released over the summer, but with its
extreme demand and popularity, there are now rumours of
it becoming a major-label commercially released LP. On
October 31 2006, Wayne released an album with his mentor
Baby: Like Father, Like Son. Many confuse Baby as
Wayne's birth father, but this is not true, as evidenced
by Wayne's singles "Everything" (from Lights Out), and a
song on Like Father, Like Son, where Wayne says "My dad
died when I was 16." Later in the month of April of 2007
Lil Wayne released a new mix tape album called "Da
Drought 3".
He is also in the process of creating the Murder Game
Chronicles Part 2 Blood Brothers the mix tape with The
Game, which will not be released until sometime near
August.
Personal life
Lil Wayne had been linked to female rapper Trina since
around the time of the 2005 NBA All Star Game at Pepsi
Center in Denver. They later recorded a single, Don't
Trip, which appeared on her album Glamorise Life, and
appeared on the remix for Remy Ma's "Conceited along
with Papoose and Jae Millz. After that rumors started
flying around about what was going on between the two.
There were rumours that the two were dating or even
engaged. On a radio interview, Trina said that the
relationship was more of a "brother-sister"
relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil
Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumours.
Both would later retract that statement. In an issue of
Sister 2 Sister magazine, Trina would later say that she
made a huge understatement at that radio interview, and
that "He's one of the sweetest people I've ever met...I
have so much love for him!" However, she just burst out
in huge giggles when further questions were asked, and
she said "We're both happy. That's all the world needs
to know." In the March 2006 issue of VIBE magazine, Lil
Wayne said that this relationship was better than his
past ones because "She's (also) a rapper, so we
understand each other." When asked about the ring, he
smiled and said, "She just likes rings. I saw a nice
one, so I got it for her." Lil Wayne and Trina have
recently ended their relationship, which was stated by
Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park.
He would draw some media and fan attention with the leak
of a picture of himself and Bryan "Baby" Williams
(a.k.a. Birdman) kissing.
It was explained as a
father-son kiss, and Williams later claimed it was a
"black variation" of Mafia affection.
Lil Wayne has recently purchased a sky box at the
Louisiana Super dome with Birdman.
Lil Wayne has a daughter named Reginae Carter, he named
her after his step father Reginald "Rabbit" Carter.
Lil Wayne has been attending the University of Houston
in Houston, Texas since early 2005, where he began
studying political science. [1] According to the Cash
Money Records website, Wanye has since switched his
major to psychology.
In the single "Know What I'm Doing'" Lil Wayne claims to
have been shot. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly
shot himself with his stepfather's gun.
Tha Carter 2 - Although there has been much debate on the subject of who is or who isn't the King of the South, Lil Wayne is not worried about all the fuss as to who really lays claim to the title.
As a veteran rap star, budding
entrepreneur, and young scholar studying psychology at
the University of Houston, Wayne's experience in the rap
game, coupled with his amazing growth as an individual
has placed him in a position only a handful of people in
this industry reach.
"I've been in this game for thirteen years, so I'm not
concerned with having to prove myself," Wayne says. "I
don't have to prove anything, because my growth as a
rapper and as a lyricist can be heard in my music."
Indeed, with the release of his fifth solo album The
Carter II, its obvious Dwayne Carter AKA "Weezy" is a
top-notch rapper whose lyrics and artistic vision tower
over the competition.
Lil Wayne's
Arrest
On August 14, 2006, Lil Wayne was arrested on charges of
possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana and
possession of a controlled substance. Police claim the
rapper was in possession of several unlabeled bottles —
one containing 60 pills of Alprazolam, a generic form of
Xanax that is used to treat anxiety disorders and panic
attacks; another containing 59 hydrocodone pills — along
with "two small burnt joints of marijuana," the report
read. A second man, Derrick Lawrence, 37, was also
charged with possession of less than 1 ounce of
marijuana. He was released from Georgia's Fulton County
Jail on $11,000 bond following his arrest.
Jay-Z
Lil Wayne claimed to be
the best rapper alive, since the best rapper retired.
Even though Jay-Z mildly responded to this claim, Lil
Wayne continued to speak on the situation during
interviews. Lil
Wayne has made a diss track on the instrumental of
"Ether" by Nas titled "Fuck Jay-Z", and has taken
numerous subliminal shots at him. He has spoken on Jay's
retiring efforts in his Dedication 2 Mixtape, and also
rapped lyrics to a countless amount of Jay's
instrumentals using his ryhme style. But in a recent
interview with XXL Lil' Wayne was asked about how he
went from being the best rapper alive since Jay-Z
retired to being flat out better than Jay. Surprisingly
enough, Weezy offered an apology to Jay for the way that
the magazine swayed his comments.
Jay-Z Makes Up with Lil Wayne - latest news from November 2007 -
Lil Wayne wanted to clear something up. "Best rapper
alive,", pointing at Jay Z. Then, pointing at himself:
"Next rapper alive." So maybe that's a direct
contradiction of everything Wayne's said on the billions
of mix tapes he's released in the last couple of years.
Juvenile
In 2002, Juvenile left Cash Money Records because of a
monetary dispute. Lil Wayne released his album "500
Degreez" in hopes of doing better than Juvenile, who
previously released "400 Degreez". "500 Degreez" went
gold and couldn't match "400 Degreez".
However, on Tha Carter, Wayne recorded a song called "I
Miss My Dawgs," where he talks about how much he missed
the Hot Boys (Juvenile, BG, and Turk). However, the rest
of them dismissed the song as a publicity stunt, and as
a result he said "Fuck everybody who left Cash Money...I
ain't got no respect for none of 'em." Juvenile replied
with a diss track which featured UTP's Skip called "A
Ho" which featured lyrics such as "What kind of n*gga
kiss a grown man? (a ho)...What kind of n*gga got tears
and ain't kill shit? (a ho)," which is a reference to
the infamous mouth kiss between Wayne and Birdman, as
well as the tears tattooed by Wayne's eyes (usually a
sign of when a Blood has killed someone) despite never
having killed anyone. Wayne responded on his Dedication
mixtape with DJ Drama with a freestyle to the beat of Oh
Boy by Cam'ron. Juve responded with the track "Say It To
Me Now" (featuring Kango Slim of Partners-N-Crime and
produced by Scott Storch) from his album Reality Check,
which basically says that while he is still no longer on
speaking terms with Cash Money, he will no longer make
any diss tracks directed towards them because he feels
it would be a waste of time.
There has recently been a track recorded "Do What U
Wanna Do" by Skip And Wacko of UTP, the song features
Lil Wayne, Also stated in the song by Wacko, "Since
Katrina Juve quit so who gives a damn.".
Juvenile has a rumoured track called "Cash Money
Re-United" with his old labelmates B.G., Turk, and
Mannie Fresh for his upcoming album Diary of a Soulja.
It also features Lil Wayne.
B.G.
In 2001, B.G. left Cash Money Records because the label
did not give him royalties over his deal.
B.G.'s beef was primarily with Baby, and his second
Chopper City Records album Life After Cash Money is full
of subliminal disses towards Baby. However, he was still
on good terms with Lil' Wayne, until Wayne (over disgust
from his Hot Boys tribute "I Miss My Dawgs" from
The
Carter being dismissed as a publicity stunt by Juvenile)
made his controversial comment "Fuck everybody who left
Cash Money...I ain't got no respect for none of 'em." In
response, B.G. recorded the diss track "Triggaman" (set
to the beat of Wayne's Fireman) where he makes several
disparaging comments about Wayne including "First you
were Rabbit's son, now you Birdman's J-R/How you gonna
tell your daughter she got three grandfathers?" and
"First it was Nivea, now you and Trina engaged/I got
three homies that seen me nut it in her face" (Wayne was
linked with Trina at the time).
That track would lead the beef to be extended, as Trina
released the mixtape track "What's Beef?" where along
with dissing her own rival Khia, she dissed B.G. and
Gillie Da Kid. In that track, she dissed him with the
line "You's a Cash Money Reject, a 9th Ward Soldier/Keep
fuckin with that boy, you gon' end up in a coma." B.G.
responded (along with Chopper City Boy VL Mike) on the
mixtape track "Cannon Bust Back" where VL Mike dissed
Trina saying "Keep Geezy's name out your mouth, we don't
want beef with no bitch/If that n*gga ain't satisfyin'
you can suck my dick/You crossed that line hoe, you got
problems with me/And if that n*gga say my name he ain't
allowed to speak," however B.G. reserved his disses for
Wayne, merely saying "Got a big ol' dick peekin' at your
bitch..." Wayne would break up with Trina soon after
B.G.'s diss was recorded.
However, soon after that, Birdman's cousin Tamara
Williams was killed in a car accident. B.G. called in at
a radio station to send his condolences, as Tamara had
history with B.G. Birdman would respond by saying he
accepted, and was willing to set aside all the beef, to
which B.G. responded that although he's no longer on
Cash Money, he can still sympathize with Birdman's
problems, thus ending the long beef between B.G. and
Cash Money Records.
However, he still has problems with Lil' Wayne, as he
described on BET's Rap City, where he says "Who? oh oh
Jim Jones Jr.? ha ha nah, I know who your talkin about,
Now as a rapper shawty holding it down, I can't take
nothing from shawty, He's one of the hottest lyricist out
here. But as a man, Nah he isn' a man, Wayne can't speak
for himself."
Gillie da Kid
A degree of controversy has arisen surrounding Lil
Wayne's lyrics, mostly due to another rapper, Gillie da
Kid, claiming that he has written some of Lil Wayne's
material. This has neither been confirmed nor disprove,
although both Wayne and Gillie remain firm in their
views. Members of the Hots & Sqad Up (Lil Wayne's old
"crew") have previously stated that Lil Wayne has never
needed a ghost writer. Lil Wayne can be seen wearing a
diamond-studded pendant belonging to Gillie in one of
his music videos, although this does
not necessarily have any correlation with the
ghost-writing issue. Wayne also addresses his situation
with Gillie on multiple tracks throughout Da Drought 3.
During their dispute, Gillie also alleged that Lil Wayne
may have been molested at a young age by his mentor Baby
[2]. This was in reference to the photo released in
November of 2006, which showed the two rappers
exchanging a kiss. He was quoted as saying the
following:
If Baby met Wayne when he was 9—and Baby is about 50, so
he had to be damn near 40—at what age did Baby tell
Wayne 'We're going to start kissing?' Was Wayne 12, and he
39? Was Wayne 15, and he 42? I'm just saying, you
molested that boy...When you think about Wayne is the
only n***a that ain't left [Cash Money Records]. Why?
Gillie Da Kid
Although Lil' Wayne has never formally responded to the
molestation accusations, he has stated in numerous
interviews that the kiss between he and Baby was not an
intimate one.
Constantly being accused of having a ghost-writer for his
most critically acclaimed albums, Tha Carter 1, and Tha
Carter 2, Wayne attempts to dispel the rumours in this
quote directed at Gillie:
I don’t get it. How you could write for me and I don’t
write? I’m rich as a mutha f*cka, and you wrote for me?
Then why aren’t you rich? If I wrote for a nigga and
this nigga’s on top of the world right now, I’d be like,
“Where’s my fuck*n’ money? Where’s my benefits?” I heard
this nigga do an interview and say he got like $30
thousand a song. Show me one of them $30 thousand checks
you got from writing for me. Show me, ’cause I don’t
know what you wrote for me. I don’t write nothing, dawg.
The only time I touch the pad is for someone else.
Young Buck
Young Buck left Cash Money Records the same time
Juvenile did and joined UTP Records. Young Buck was
unable to record with Cash Money and Juvenile persuaded
Buck to join him. Young Buck became involved with the
beef between Juvenile, BG & Lil Wayne. Recently in a song
called "Off Parole" featuring Tony Yayo, Young Buck
talked about the infamous kiss between Lil Wayne & Baby.
Lil Wayne refused to say anything back. Later, Young
Buck would retract his comments about Lil' Wayne and
invite him to his own concert to settle their
differences.
Tony Yayo
During the feud between G-Unit and the Diplomats, the
Diplomats were linked with Cash Money. Lil Wayne also
collaborated with Fat Joe and Lloyd during the time.
Both singles "Make It Rain" and "You" received heavy
airplay. Tony Yayo stated in an interview, "I don't
believe in Camron. I don't believe in Jim Jones. I
don't believe in Baby. I don't believe in Lil Wayne. I
don't believe in Game. I don't believe in Fat Joe."
50 cent
The diss track from Lil Wayne aimed at 50 is called
"Gossip" and will be released in the next couple of
weeks and it will be the first joint off his Carter III
album. Now Wayne doesn't actually say Curtis' name in
the joint, but when you hear it you will know it is
aimed right at Mr. Jackson...
Lil Waynes
Acting career
Who's Your Caddy?
Lil Wayne is playing the role of himself while Big Boi
is shooting a music video on the local golf course.
Cut Throat City
Cash Money Records founder and CEO Bryan "Baby" Williams
and his star artist Lil' Wayne have signed on to star in
a new independent movie titled Cut Throat City.
The heist story starts in New Orleans' rough 9th Ward,
also known as "Cut Throat City." one of several films in
the works centered on Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath. The story, set in the Big Easy, follows a
heist that begins in the decimated Lower Ninth Ward and
will touch on the government’s neglect of the area.
Cut Throat City is scheduled to be released in the first
quarter of 2008
Ballers
Ballers is a comedy set in the world of pro basketball.
Due to a slow production and lack of time, the films
release date has been rumored to be the summer of
2008.[citation needed] It features rappers like T.I. ,
Lil' Wayne, Ludacris, and 50 Cent.
The Boondocks
In Fall 2007, when then the second season of The
Boondocks airs, Lil Wayne's role as Huey and Riley's
cousin from New Orleans will begin.
Baller Blockin
Made in 2000, set in New Orleans in the 3rd ward
district.
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