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New Orleans, United States (1999 – present)

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. Formerly a member of the rap group Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective at age 9. Get It How U Live, released in 1997, was Lil Wayne’s first album with Hot Boys, and Tha Block is Hot, his solo debut, came out in 1999.

After gaining fame with two other albums in the early 2000s, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity with 2004’s Tha Carter and its two subsequent albums Tha Carter II (2005) and Tha Carter III (2008). He earned various accolades following Tha Carter III, including being nominated for eight Grammy Awards. He will release a rock album titled Rebirth in 2009.

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Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] Carter enrolled in the gifted program of Lafayette Elementary School and in the drama club of Eleanor McMain Secondary School.[2][3] He wrote his first rap song at age eight.[4] At age eleven, he met Bryan Williams, rapper and owner of Cash Money Records. Lil Wayne recorded freestyle raps on Williams’ answering machine; Williams would eventually mentor the young Carter and include him in Cash Money-distributed songs.[5] When he was 12, he played the part of the Tin Man in his middle sMusic career

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Rapper Lil Wayne must turn over financial records

18 Mar 2009 | from www.theinsider.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rapper Lil Wayne must turn over financial records for his latest album to a folk singer who has accused him of copyright infringement. On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III ordered the New Orleans rapper to. …

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