Lil Tecca
Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born on
August 26 the 26th of August, 2002. He is also known as Lil Tecca. He gained
mainstream recognition after the release of his single from 2019
"Ransom" that had a peak at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The
track was released on his mixtape debut We Love You Tecca (2019) which peaked
at number 4 on the US Billboard 200. It also contained singles Love Me and Did
It Again. The album he released as his debut studio album"Virgo
World" (2020) debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 and included the
Billboard Hot 100's top-charting tracks "Dolly" as well as "When
You Down". The mixtape that he followed up with We Love You Tecca 2 was
released in August 2021. It included the songs "Repeat It", "Lot
of Me" and others. Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born on the 26th of
August, 2002, in the Queens neighborhood of New York City to Jamaican
immigrants. He was raised in the Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens
however, he later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Since his early years,
Sharpe had aspirations of being in the NBA, but around the age of 12 Sharpe
began to turn his attention toward pursuing a career path in music. He
completed his studies at Lawrence High School. Tecca, nine years old at the
time, was rapping along with his classmates with his Xbox to record. They would
make diss tracks directed towards each other that was posted to SoundCloud
years ago, but has since been removed. At the beginning, he did not have plans
to begin music and instead wanted to be an NBA superstar. However, during his
middle school years he resigned himself to basketball and began to consider
taking the music seriously. The first track that gained some attention,
"Tectri", was created by him and his friend, Lil Gummybear, and came
out in early 2017. Tecca also dropped "Callin" as one of his early
tracks. Tecca's career exploded a year later when he released the smash single
"Ransom", which was uploaded to Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade
YouTube channel on May 22, 2019. The track ranked 4 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart. It has received more than 900 million Spotify listeners and more than
300 million YouTube views.
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