Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on August 26, 2002), known professionally as Lil Tecca, is an American musician and rapper. He rose to mainstream fame after the release of his 2019 single "Ransom" that had a peak at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The debut mixtape of his We Love You Tecca (2019) included the track. It peaked at 4 on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also featured the two singles "Love Me" and "Did It Again". The album he released as his debut studio album"Virgo World" (2020) was released at #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" and "Lot of Me". Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe is an Jamaican immigrants, was born in Queens on August 26, 2002. Sharpe was raised in Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens however, he later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe was a young man with ambitions to become a basketball player, but Sharpe shifted his focus to music when he was twelve. He graduated from Lawrence High School. Tecca, nine years old at the time, was rapping along with his peers using his Xbox to record. One of their diss tracks was posted to SoundCloud several years ago, however it has since been deleted. At first, he did not have any plans to pursue a career in music however, he had a dream of becoming an NBA star. He started to consider music more seriously when he dropped his interest in basketball when he was in middle school. His first track to gain some traction, "Tectri", was created in collaboration with his friend, Lil Gummybear, and it was released in the early part of 2017. Other preliminary tracks of his include "Callin". Just a year later the career of Tecca began to gain momentum with his breakout hit single "Ransom" The track was released on Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel on May 22, 2019. The track reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has received over 900 million plays on Spotify and more than 300 million views on YouTube.