Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on August 26, 2002) also known as Lil Tecca, is an American musician and rapper. The rapper gained fame with the release of his single from 2019 "Ransom" which peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. His mixtape debut, We Love You Tecca (2019) was the first to include the single. It peaked at fourth place in the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also contained the singles "Love Me" and "Did It Again". The album he released as his debut called Virgo World (2020) was released on the Billboard 200 at number 10. It contained the Billboard Hot 100 chart-charting songs "Dolly", and "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" and many more. Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe is an Jamaican native, immigrated to the United States in Queens on the 26th of August 2002. Sharpe was raised in Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens however, he later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe was always hoping to be a part of the NBA as a child, but at the age of 12, Sharpe decided to pursue a career in music. He completed his studies at Lawrence High School. Tecca was just nine years old age when he began rapping on his Xbox. They would make tracks of diss directed towards each other One of them was uploaded to SoundCloud several years ago, but has since been removed. At first, he didn't intend to pursue music and instead wanted to be an NBA superstar. He began to pursue music more seriously when the time he stopped playing basketball at the age of middle school. His first single to become famous, "Tectri", was created in partnership with Lil Gummybear and released in the beginning of 2017. Other tracks by Tecca include "Callin" as well as "Tectri". Tecca's career took off one year later when he released the smash single "Ransom" and was uploaded to Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel in May 22, 2019. The track reached the top spot at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song has received more than 90 million Spotify plays and has more than 300 million YouTube views.