Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born August 26, 2002), known professionally as Lil Tecca, is an American rapper and singer. His 2019 single "Ransom", was his first major hit. It reached the top spot at 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The debut mixtape of his, We Love You Tecca (2019) included the hit single. It reached #4 on the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also contained the singles Love Me and Did It Again. His debut studio album,"Virgo" (2020) it debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. It also included the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles "Dolly" and "When You Down". His 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 August 26, 2002, in the Queens neighborhood of New York City to Jamaican immigrants. Sharpe was born in Queens' Springfield Gardens, and later relocated to Cedarhurst on Long Island. At a young age, Sharpe had aspirations of playing in the NBA however, after 12 years of age Sharpe began to turn his attention towards pursuing a career in music. He completed his studies at Lawrence High School. When Tecca was nine years old, he catered to his love of music by rapping with his friends using his Xbox. They would make tracks of diss directed at each other and one was posted to SoundCloud several years ago, but was later removed. In the early years of his life that he wasn't making any plans to pursue music a profession but instead wanted to be an NBA star. He began to pursue 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 composed in collaboration with his friend, Lil Gummybear, and was released in the beginning of 2017. He also released "Callin" which was another one of his first songs. The following year the career of Tecca began to grow with his hit single "Ransom", which was originally released on Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel on May 22 on the 22nd of May in 2019. It peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and has been played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million times on YouTube.