Dwayne spends his early life moving between Cita's house and his grandmother's. The marriage quickly implodes and the pair separate in a matter of months. At 21, Jacita bows to pressure from her parents and marries her baby's father two-year-old Dwayne is the ring bearer.
is born on September 27, 1982, to 19-year-old cook Jacita Carter (known as Cita) and Dwayne Michael Turner in New Orleans' impoverished Hollygrove neighbourhood. Many rappers have crossed over into pop stardom, but few have managed to grab the public's imagination like the diminutive, skateboarding, almost insanely tattooed former Hot Boy-turned-label boss.ĭwayne Michael Carter, Jr. Most recently, he had an extended stay in the hospital following a seizure, and was rumoured to be on the verge of death. He once guest-blogged about the NBA playoffs for ESPN, then had the ESPN logo tattooed on him. He has been the poster child for both hip-hop's growing affinity for skateboard culture, and for its dangerous obsession with codeine and promethazine cough syrup. As a celebrity, he's filled gossip pages with his drug problems, multiple arrests, and bizarre behaviour. As a label exec, he's helped launch the careers of megastars like Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga. He's produced some of the best hip-hop records of the past decade ( Tha Carter II and III), as well as some of the worst ( Rebirth). By the time Wayne turned 16, he'd been shot, lost a parent, become a parent, become his family's primary breadwinner, and had an album chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Regardless of what you think of Lil Wayne as an artist, or a human for that matter, it's hard not to be fascinated by him.
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