Lil Tecca

Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe, born 26 August 2002, is a popular American musician and singer. His single from 2019 "Ransom", was his first major hit. It reached number 4 in the Billboard Hot 100. The mixtape he released as his debut, We Love You Tecca (2019), featured the single. It reached fourth place in the US Billboard 200. The mixtape also featured the two singles "Love Me" and "Did It Again". His first studio album"Virgo World" (2020) debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 and included the Billboard Hot 100 charting songs "Dolly" and "When You Down". The mixtape he followed, We Love You Tecca 2, was released in August 2021 . It included "Repeat It" and "Lot of Me". Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharpe, an Jamaican immigrants, was born in Queens on the 26th of August 2002. Sharpe was raised in Springfield Gardens a neighborhood of Queens and later moved to Cedarhurst in Long Island. Sharpe has always dreamed of being able to play in the NBA in his youth, but at the age of 12, he decided to pursue a career in music. He attended Lawrence High School. Tecca was nine years old at the time, was rapping with his classmates with his Xbox to record. One of their diss tracks was uploaded to SoundCloud several years ago, but it was removed. In the beginning when he was a kid, he did not have any plans of making music a profession but instead wanted to be an NBA star. In his middle school years however, he began to become bored with basketball and began taking music seriously. His first song that became famous, "Tectri", was made by Lil Gummybear in partnership with Lil Gummybear and released in the early part of 2017. Other tracks by Tecca include "Callin" as well as "Tectri". His smash hit single "Ransom," which was first posted to Cole Bennett's Lyrical lemonade YouTube channel on May 22nd in 2019, started the meteoric rise of Tecca. It reached the top spot at 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and was played over 900,000,000 times on Spotify and more than 300 million times on YouTube.