Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on the 26th of August, 2002) also known as Lil Tecca, is an American artist and rapper. The release of "Ransom," his 2019 single, helped him to become a popular star. The single was included on his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca (2019) that peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also featured the singles "Love Me", "Did It Again" and "Did It Again". The debut album of his studio called Virgo World (2020) debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100's top-charting tracks "Dolly" and "When You Down". The second mixtape, We Love You Tecca 2 was released in August 2021. It included the songs "Repeat It", "Lot of Me" as well as others. Tyler-Justin Anthony sharpe was the son of Jamaican immigrants. He was born August 26, 2002 in Queens, New York City. Sharpe was born in Queens' Springfield Gardens, and later moved to Cedarhurst on Long Island. At a young age, Sharpe had aspirations of being a part of the NBA however, at 12 years old Sharpe shifted his focus toward pursuing a career path in music. He attended Lawrence High School. Tecca was nine years old at the age, was rapping alongside the other students using his Xbox to record. They would make diss tracks directed towards each other and one was uploaded to SoundCloud years ago, but has since been removed. When he was a child in high school, he had no plans to pursue music a living and instead , he envisioned becoming an NBA star. When he was in middle school however, he started to become bored with basketball and took music seriously. The first track that gained some popularity, "Tectri", was composed in collaboration with his friend, Lil Gummybear, and it was released in the early part of 2017. Other preliminary tracks of his include "Callin". His hit single "Ransom," which was first uploaded to Cole Bennett's Lyrical lemonade YouTube channel on May 22nd in 2019, began Tecca's meteoric rise. The track ranked 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track has been a hit with more than 900 million Spotify listeners and more than 300 million YouTube views.