Lil Wayne Net Worth, Age, Height, Weight, Awards and Achievements

Introduction of Lil Wayne

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. alias (Lil Wayne, Weezy F. Baby, Lil Tunechi, and President Carter) is a Hip-hop music songwriter and Rapper. He is also a record executive and an entrepreneur with a career spanning over two decades now. He was discovered at just 13 years old by birdman in 1996 and later joined the Cash Money Records label which saw him become the youngest member of the record label. For 22 years, Lil Wayne was the flagship artist of the Cash Money Records label before he terminated his contract in 2018. His solo album Tha Block Is Hot which debuted him to the rap music scene in 1999 was certified as platinum by the RIAA. He went on to release a few more albums with his fourth Tha Carter, 2004 which enhanced his popularity further.

Lil Wayne gained major prominence in 2008 when he released the third series album of tha Carter called Tha Carter III which emerged as his most successful. He sold more than one million copies of the album in the first week and it won the Best Rap Album Grammy Award. This success propelled Wayne to start recording another album titled Rebirth which was largely inspired by rock music.

Lil Wayne was later convicted of possession of weapons that were involved in an incident three years earlier. He was sentenced to eight months of incarceration. He recorded his eighth album which was launched when he was behind bars. The album title was I Am Not a Human Being. Upon his release in 2011, he released another album known as Tha Carter IV which had hits such as “6 foot 7 foot”. The album ended up selling 964, 000 copies in the first week of release.

He announced the release of another album in his sequel of Tha Carter. However, in-house wrangles made it impossible, so after a series of events of cancellation and postponement, Tha Carter V was released in 2018 which later hit platinum. The funeral was Lil Wayne’s latest and twelfth album in total which was released just recently in 2020.

Early life

Born on the 27^th of September, 1982, Dwayne spent some of his early days in the poor neighborhood of Hollygrove in New Orleans. His parents divorced while he was just two years old. His mother worked as a cook, as the father vanished never to associate himself with the young family again. Reginald Mcdonald became a part of their family and is the one Wayne considers as the father, even though he is deceased now. He attended Lafayette Elementary before enrolling with the Eleanor McMain Secondary for two years. He furthered his education at the Marion Abramson Senior High school.

He later met Bryan Williams who was and still is the CEO of Cash Money Records and a rapper in 1991. He started recording at that age of 11 with fellow young artistes such as B.G. Carter was then raced to a hospital at the age of 14 years after deliberately shooting himself with a 9 mm handgun.

Career

Lil Wayne started as a professional rapper at the age of 14. He joined a group called Hot Boys. They released two albums Get it and How U Live! Before releasing their major breakthrough, Guerilla Warfare which topped the charts for Top 100 R&B/Hip-Hop, and fifth on the Billboard top 200 charts.

Wayne’s solo debut album came on the back of his disbandment of the Hot Boys crew. However, some songs featured members of his former group. It was certified platinum after reaching the top 3 on the Billboard top 200 charts. He launched two more albums that attained gold status. However, they failed to beat the success that was attained by his debut album.

Carter went on to release another album known as Tha Carter which did better on the market as critics noticed development in his lyrical prowess. Tha Carter II followed on in close concession in 2005. This album sold more than two million copies worldwide and 238,000 copies in the first week of release. He was then named the president of the record label Cash Money Records and later founded the Young Money Entertainment which became an imprint of the parent label.

He relinquished the management of both stables to Cortez Bryant in 2007. Lil Wayne furthered his music career by releasing collaborations and mixtapes. The most popular being Da Drought and Dedication where he rapped over a variety of newly released songs by other artists. He later released his best-selling album of all time Tha Carter III which had singles such as “Lollipop” and “Got Money” which debuted in the top ten of the country’s charts. The album sold more than 2 million copies in the first week; something that prompted the RIAA to certify the album as double platinum.

This was followed by a series of collaborations with a host of artists. His heroics at the Grammys made him become a public eye with interviews and debates on various shows including The View. He released a collaboration album with other members of his record stable Young Money which achieved the Gold Status by RIAA after selling more than 500,000 copies. He released another album the Rebirth in 2010 with some successful singles such as “Drop The World” which he features Eminem. Carter then embarked on recording the next carter series album which was launched later in 2011 and was followed by a series of albums and mixtapes such as sorry for the wait series, Free Weezy, dedication sequel, and the funeral album, which is his latest.

Awards and Achievements

Carter is accredited to have had more than 120 million record sales globally, 15 million album sales in the US, and 37 million sales of digital tracks. He has received many Grammy nominations winning five. He has 11 BET music Awards, four billboard Awards, and two MTV VMA. He is the CEO of Young Money Entertainment.

Lil Wayne Net Worth and salary

Lil Wayne net worth according to Forbes is in excess of $150 million. However, his annual salary is estimated to be $23 million in 2020. Lil Wayne Net worth rose by 50% compared to last year’s income. This has been attributed to increased music and performances.

The Bottom Line

Lil Wayne is regarded as one of the best-selling global artistes of all time and the best to ever emerge in his music genre of Rap and Hip-Hop. He surpassed Elvis Presley with most music unit entries on the Billboard Hot 100 with 109 songs. Making him the first male artist to achieve this fete.