Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born on August 26, 2002 is an American musician and singer. The song he released in 2019 "Ransom", was his first major hit. It peaked at number 4 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song was part of the mixtape he released in his debut "We Love You Tecca" (2019) which peaked at fourth place on the US Billboard 200. It also contained singles Love Me and Did It Again. The album he released as his debut"Virgo world" (2020), debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 at number 10. It contained the Billboard Hot 100 chart-charting songs "Dolly" and "When You Down". The second mixtape "We Love You Tecca 2", was released in August 2021. It featured "Repeat It" and "Lot of Me". Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born on the 26th of August, 2002, in the Queens area in 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 playing in the NBA However, around 12 years old Sharpe began to turn his attention to pursuing a career in music. Sharpe graduated from Lawrence High School. Tecca, nine years old at the time, was rapping with the other students with his Xbox to record. One of their tracks about diss was posted to SoundCloud many years ago however it has since been deleted. In the beginning that he wasn't making any plans to pursue music a profession and instead dreamed of becoming an NBA superstar. Through his middle school years however, he started to become bored with basketball and started taking music seriously. His first single, "Tectri", which became popular in early 2017 was produced with Lil Gummybear and released in collaboration. Lil Gummybear. The other tracks that he had in the beginning include "Callin". Tecca's career took off one year later after the success of his single "Ransom" and was uploaded to Cole Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel in May 22nd, 2019. It reached the top spot at 4 in the Billboard Hot 100 charts and has been played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million times on YouTube.