Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record executive, entrepreneur, and actor. He is regarded by many contemporaries as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation. Lil Wayne has sold over 120 million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in the United States. He has won five Grammy Awards, 11 BET Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and eight NAACP Image Awards.
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Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record executive, entrepreneur, and actor. He is regarded by many contemporaries as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation. Lil Wayne has sold over 120 million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in the United States. He has won five Grammy Awards, 11 BET Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and eight NAACP Image Awards. His eighth studio album I Am Not a Human Being was released during his incarceration, while his 2011 album Tha Carter IV was released following his release. His thirteenth album, Funeral, was released in early 2020. Carter has said that he considers deceased stepfather Reginald \”Rabbitd\” McDonald his real father. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the impoverished Hollygrove neighborhood. His mother, a cook, gave birth to him when she was 19 years old. His father permanently abandoned the family when he was 2, and he has a tattoo dedicated to his late stepfather, Rabbit. Carter dropped out of high school at 14 to focus on his musical career. In 1994, at the age of 12, Carter suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest that almost ended his life. This led the older man to rap for him on recordings produced by him and include him on Cash Money Records. In the summer of 1991, he met Cash Money records owner Birdman and recorded freestyle raps on Birdman’s answering machine.
In June 2018, Carter ended his association with the company, and signed with his own label, Young Money Entertainment. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of his own record label, and is the CEO of his father’s record company, R&B/Hip-hop label, 2Pac. His son, Dwayne Wayne Jr., was born on September 27, 1982, and was raised in the New Orleans neighborhood of New Orleans. He changed his stage name from Dwayne to Wayne when he became a junior because he didn’t want to be Dwayne and his father was still alive. He also dropped the D because he wanted to be Wayne, not Dwayne. In 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. In 2012, he became the first male artist to surpass Elvis Presley with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100, with 109 songs. He won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album for his sixth album Tha Carter III, with first-week sales of over one million copies in the US. In 2013, he released his seventh album, ThaCarter IV, which sold 964,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. His twelfth studio album was released in 2018 after multiple delays. His last album, Funeral, is due to be released in late 2020.
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