It took Lil Tecca a year to go from an ordinary schoolboy who loves basketball and computer games to a hitmaker on the Billboard Hot-100.
Popularity hit the young rapper after the presentation of the banger single Ransom. The song has over 400 million streams on Spotify.
The childhood and youth of the rapper
Lil Tecca is the pseudonym behind the name of Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharp. He was born on August 26, 2002 in Queens, New York. In his youth, the guy's father and mother emigrated to the United States of America from the island of Jamaica. The rapper is American.
The guy met his childhood in Springfield Gardens (Queens). A little later, his family moved to Cedarhurst (Long Island). Here the guy received his secondary education.
The guy spent all his childhood on the basketball court and playing Xbox. The rapper said that due to the significant workload at school, he could not devote much time to music. Creativity Tyler-Justin Anthony Sharp worked on the weekends.
The best vacation for a star is playing basketball. The guy seriously thought about a sports career, and even wanted to leave music. But still, the love of rap won. Here's what the artist said:
“I really, really wanted to get into some team from the association. I love and love basketball, so I do not hide the fact that for some time I thought about quitting music. But, I soon realized that I could not devote my whole life to sports. Now I play purely for my own pleasure. I can hardly imagine how I get up every day at 6 am to go to the morning workout ... ".
The creative path of the rapper
The guy became interested in rap in the 6th grade. Then it was a rap imitation, not something serious. Professional music lessons began in adolescence. The first tracks of the musician cannot be found on the Internet. The artist sent songs to his friends without uploading them to the sites.
He posted full-fledged singles on the Internet with his friend Lil Gummybear. The main platform for posting tracks was Instagram. The guys could not fully devote themselves to music, since both studied at school.
At the beginning of 2018, the guy already had a certain army of fans. Everyone was waiting for Lil Tecca's trap tracks, and even his songs My Time and Callin appeared on streaming services.
Trap is a musical genre that emerged in the late 1990s. Trap tracks actively use multi-layered synthesizers, crunchy, dirty and rhythmic snare drums or powerful sub-bass parts, hi-hats, accelerated by two, three or more times.
A year later, the rapper's career dramatically became successful. His composition Ransom has become a hit from the very moment of the presentation, gaining more than 400 million streams on Spotify. In addition, the song took an honorable 4th position on the Billboard Hot 100.
The musical composition did not bypass other countries. The track hit the prestigious charts in Australia, Finland, Sweden and the UK. A few months later, the rapper created a remix, posting it on SoundCloud and other online platforms.
Fan-favorite songs Love Me, Bossanova, Did It Again were included in the artist's first mixtape. We are talking about the record We Love You Tecca, which was recorded by Republic Records. The work took the 4th position on the Billboard-200, and also hit the charts in Canada, the UK and Norway.
A few days after the presentation of the mixtape, information appeared that the singer had died in a shootout between John F. Kennedy International Airport. Later it turned out that the news was nothing more than gossip of ill-wishers. Lil spoke to fans and said that he is alive and doing great.
Lil Tecca's personal life
Information about the rapper's personal life is of interest to many fans. As the "fans" who watch not only the creative but also the personal life of the star believe, Lil meets with Paĸel Πeco.
Many call the rapper a "nerd". And all because of his imperfect image. He wears braces and glasses, which does not characterize him at all as a macho. Lil Tecca does not care about such statements of haters. In his texts, he gladly answers ill-wishers.
Lil Tecca: interesting facts
- Lil Tecca's first track was inspired by online games. And the parents also learned that their son is a celebrity from his younger sister. Lil did not dare to share a piece of his work with mom and dad for a long time.
- The rapper's repertoire has been heavily influenced by the Caribbean sound. Some tracks of the black singer accurately convey the national flavor of Jamaica. To feel the above, just listen to the songs My Time, Love Me and Count Me Out.
- He dreams of collaborating with Chief Keef and Drake.
- The Lil Tecca playlist is a real musical platter. The young rapper is inspired by the work of Michael Jackson, Coldplay, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Waka Flaka Flame, Meek Mill. The list of top singers of the new school of rap opens: Juice WRLD, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Lil Uzi Vert.
- Leal said that if after 5 years he sees that he has achieved some success in music, then most likely he will go to medical school and become a cardiologist.
- The top song Ransom was released in an independent studio. It was later re-recorded by Republic Records and Galactic Records. The video for the track was filmed in the Dominican Republic. This process was led by Cole Bennett.
- In his interview for the YouTube channel Cufboys, the rapper said that the creative pseudonym was invented by a friend from social networks, a girl with the nickname Tecca.
- Tyler admitted that it was not his plan to continue the tradition of New York rap.
- The rapper is not the most active user of social networks. For example, his Instagram has a little more than 3 million subscribers. His page is almost empty of photos and posts.
- The height of the performer is 175 cm, and the weight is 72 kg.
Rapper Lil Tecca today
In 2020, the rapper's discography was finally replenished with a debut album. We are talking about the collection Virgo World. The presentation of the LP took place in September 2020.
The new album, according to the good old tradition, hit the Billboard 200. The songs from it Dolly and When You Down entered the Billboard Hot 100 music charts. Both tracks were recorded with the participation of popular artists Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Durk and Polo G. The rapper released more for some of the songs and video clips.
In addition, in 2020, the rapper participated in the recording of songs for the B4 the Storm record as a guest artist. The album was released by rapper Taz Taylor under the Internet Money label.
