Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe (born on August 26, 2002), known professionally as Lil Tecca, is an American musician and rapper. The release of "Ransom," his 2019 single, allowed him to become a household name. His mixtape debut"We Love You Tecca (2019) included the track. It peaked at number 4 in the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also featured the singles Love Me and Did It Again. The album he released as his debut studio album, Virgo (2020) which debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200. It also featured the Billboard Hot 100-charting singles "Dolly" & "When You Down". The mixtape he followed, We Love You Tecca 2, was released in August 2021 and included "Repeat It" and "Lot of Me". Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe was born on the 26th of August, 2002 in the Queens area in New York City to Jamaican immigrants. He was raised in the Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens which he later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe was a child with plans to be an athlete in basketball, but he switched his focus to music at age 12. Sharpe completed his studies at Lawrence High School. Tecca was nine years old at the time, was rapping along with his friends using his Xbox to record. The two would berate one another. One of the tracks was uploaded to SoundCloud in the past, but it was removed. In his first years that he wasn't making any plans to pursue music a profession and instead envisioned becoming an NBA superstar. However, as he entered his middle school years, the basketball player lost interest and considered taking the music seriously. His first track to gain some attention, "Tectri", was created in collaboration with his pal, Lil Gummybear, and was released in early 2017. His other tracks comprise "Callin" as well as "Tectri". His smash hit single "Ransom," which was first posted to Cole Bennett's Lyrical lemonade YouTube channel on May 22 in 2019, started the meteoric rise of Tecca. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The track has received over 990 million Spotify plays and has more than 300 million YouTube views.