Later debuted the single “6 Foot 7 Foot” in late 2010, several months before embarking on a North American tour with Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross.
In February 2009 he took home Grammy Awards for best rap album, best rap song, best rap solo performance, and best rap performance by a duo or group the latter award was for the song “Swagga like Us,” on which he performed alongside Jay-Z, T.I., and Kanye West. By the end of December, it had sold more than 2.8 million, which made it the country’s best-selling album of the year. In 2008 more than a million copies of Tha Carter III, which contained the ubiquitous singles “A Milli” and “Lollipop,” were sold in its initial week of release in the United States. His 2004 album Tha Carter reached number five on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned a hit single, “Go D.J.” Lil Wayne found a new avenue to success in 2003 with Da Drought, his first solo mixtape. Lil Wayne’s first solo LP, Tha Block Is Hot, arrived later in 1999 and sold more than a million copies. There he came to the attention of Cash Money Records head Bryan Williams, and he soon became a memberband won notice for the albums Get It How U Live! (1997) and Guerrilla Warfare (1999). Lil Wayne grew up in New Orleans’s impoverished 17th Ward. Lil Wayne, byname of Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., also called Weezy, (born September 27, 1982, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.), American rapper who became one of the top-selling artists in hip-hop in the early 21st century.
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