LIL Wayne is an American rapper and record executive who has created a mix of critically hailed and critically panned albums.
Lil Wayne had his fair share of charting hits among the 284 singles to his credit, with 19 of them being promotional singles.
In 1991, Lil Wayne, otherwise known as Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., first emerged when he teamed up with Cash Money rapper Lil Doogie. The artists dubbed themselves the Hot Boys after joining the Youth & Young Turk team that year.
Hot Boys’ first album, Get It How U Live, saw the southern hip-hop trio achieve fame because of their lyrical inventiveness.
Nonetheless, it was their second album, Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999, that catapulted Lil Wayne’s career to the forefront of the music industry.
Lil Wayne is one of the best-selling musicians in the world, having sold over 120 million records globally, including more than 20 million albums and 70 million digital songs in the US.
Lil Wayne broke Elvis Presley’s long-standing record of having over 100 songs on the Billboard hits list as a solo artist in 2012.
As of last year, he has 109 songs on the Billboard Top 200 and counting, including:
Lil Wayne is slated to release three new albums, according to HypeBeast.
Earlier this year in a Twitter Spaces chat, Young Money boss Mack Maine revealed that Lil Wayne’s album I Am Not A Human Being 3, a collaboration with Rich the Kid, and ColleGrove 2 with 2 Chainz are “coming soon.”
During an interview on Fox Sports Radio’s Up On Game in March, Wayne also revealed that a new compilation album with his Young Money brand is in the works.
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