Lil Tecca
Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on
26th August 2002) also known as Lil Tecca, is an American musician and rapper.
He gained mainstream recognition after the release of his 2019 hit single
"Ransom", which was a top 4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. His mixtape
debut We Love You Tecca (2019) included the track. It reached fourth place in
the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also included the singles "Love
Me", "Did It Again" and "Did It Again". The debut
album of his studio,"Virgo" (2020), debuted at Number 10 on the
Billboard 200. It also included the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles
"Dolly" & "When You Down". The second mixtape, 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 in New
York City to Jamaican immigrants. Sharpe was raised in Springfield Gardens a
neighborhood of Queens, but later relocated to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Since
his early years, Sharpe had aspirations of being a part of the NBA However,
around 12 years old Sharpe shifted his focus to pursue a career in music.
Sharpe was a student at Lawrence High School. When Tecca was just nine years
old, he catered to his passion for music through rapping with friends using his
Xbox. Tecca and his friends would often make diss tracks about each other. One
of them was uploaded to SoundCloud years back, but the track has since been
deleted. At first, he didn't have plans to pursue a musical career although he
did dream of becoming an NBA star. He started taking music more seriously after
having dropped the interest in basketball at the age of middle school. The
first track to become famous, "Tectri", was created by Lil Gummybear
in collaboration with Lil Gummybear and released in the early part of 2017.
Tecca also released "Callin" in the same year, which was one of his
early tracks. His smash hit single "Ransom," which was first posted
to Cole Bennett's Lyrical lemonade YouTube channel on May 22nd in 2019, started
Tecca's meteoric rise. The song peaked at 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and
has been played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million
times on YouTube.
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