Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on August 26, 2002) who is professionally referred to as Lil Tecca, is an American musician and rapper. The success of "Ransom," his 2019 single, allowed him to become a major star. The track was released on his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca (2019) which reached number 4 on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also included the two singles "Love Me" and "Did It Again". The debut album of his studio called Virgo World (2020) debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100 charting songs "Dolly" as well as "When You Down". His second mixtape "We Love You Tecca 2" came out in August 2021. It featured "Repeat It" as well as "Lot of Me". Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe is a Jamaican immigrant, was born in Queens on the 26th of August 2002. Sharpe was raised in Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens and later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe was a young man with aspirations to be an athlete in basketball, but his attention shifted to music at age 12. Sharpe graduated from Lawrence High School. When Tecca was nine years old, he adapted to his interest in music through rapping with friends using his Xbox. One of their diss tracks was posted to SoundCloud many years ago but was later removed. At first, he did not have any plans to pursue a musical career however, he had a dream of becoming an NBA superstar. However, in his middle school years, he lost interest in basketball and began to consider taking music more seriously. His first single, "Tectri", which gained some popularity in the early 2017 was made with Lil Gummybear and released in collaboration. Lil Gummybear. The other tracks that he had in the beginning include "Callin". A year later Tecca's career started to grow by releasing his smash single "Ransom" and was first uploaded to Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel on May 22 in 2019. The song peaked at 4 in the Billboard Hot 100 charts and was played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million times on YouTube.