Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born August 26 in 2002. He is known as Lil Tecca. He gained mainstream recognition after the release of his 2019 single "Ransom", which was a top 4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The debut mixtape of his, We Love You Tecca (2019) included the hit single. It peaked at fourth place in the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also included singles Love Me and Did It Again. His debut studio album called Virgo World (2020) was released #10 on the Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100's top-charting tracks "Dolly" as well as "When You Down". The second mixtape he released, We Love You Tecca 2 was released in August 2021. It included the songs "Repeat It", "Lot of Me" as well as others. Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was a son of Jamaican immigrants. He was born August 26 2002, in Queens, New York City. He was raised in the Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens and later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe has always dreamed of being able to join the NBA when he was a kid, but at the age of 12, Sharpe made the decision to pursue a profession in music. Sharpe attended Lawrence High School. When Tecca was nine years old, he catered to his passion for music by rapping with his friends using his Xbox. One of their diss tracks was posted to SoundCloud some time ago but was later removed. At first, he didn't have plans to pursue a career in music however, he had a dream of becoming an NBA star. Through his middle school years however, he started to become bored with basketball and began taking music seriously. The first track that gained some recognition, "Tectri", was recorded by him and his friend, Lil Gummybear, and was released in the beginning of 2017. He also dropped "Callin", another of his first songs. Just a year later the career of Tecca began to grow by releasing his smash single "Ransom" and was originally uploaded on Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel on May 22 the 22nd of May, 2019. The song peaked at 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and was played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million times on YouTube.