In 1997 with bills to pay and despite Carter being a 14 year old honors student, his mother urged him to drop out of school to focus on his career and he changed his rap name to “Lil Wayne.” That same year he and B.G. This was a turning point in Carter’s life and inspired the first of his many characteristic tattoos, “R.I.P. In 1996 after only a few months out of jail Rabbit was shot dead. That same year under the name “Baby D” he released his first collaboration album with 14 year old rapper B.G. Although he recovered this got Rabbit sent to jail for possession of an illegal handgun. In 1994 at the age of 12 that career turmoil caused Dwayne to either purposefully or accidentally shoot himself in the chest with his parents’ gun. Although an admitted street hustler Rabbit was a strong father figure to young Dwayne.īy the time he was 11 he was leaving freestyle raps on the answering machine of local rap label Cash Money Records which got him mentored by cofounder and fellow rapper Birdman and included on some of their artists’ songs.Īlthough his success was on the horizon Dwayne’s mother objected to the lifestyle and criminal record of the Cash Money Records’ founder and the lyrical content of her son’s songs. His mother started dating and eventually married Ronald “Rabbit” McDonald who moved the family to East New Orleans. He was a school prodigy by the age of 8 and was already writing rap songs and performing under the name “Gangsta D.” grew up in the impoverished Hollygrove area of New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of a teenage mother and an absent father Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. Released on June 10th 2008 by Cash Money and Universal Motown Record labels “The Carter III” is the sixth studio album by American, Southern rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, and actor Lil Wayne and has over 25 producers and even more co-writers. MUSIC HISTORY WRITTEN BY HEAD WRITER DJ MORTY COYLE:
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