Lil Wayne Tour Dates 2026 — Full Schedule, Cities & Venues

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About Lil Wayne

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was born September 27, 1982 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Jacida Carter, a cook, and Dwayne Michael Turner. His parents separated when he was young and he was raised primarily by his mother in the Hollygrove neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans — a working-class West Bank-adjacent stretch he has cited repeatedly across the catalogue. He attended Lafayette Elementary School and Eleanor McMain Secondary School, performed in the school drama club, and as a child wrote his first raps that he handed on cassette to Bryan 'Birdman' Williams of Cash Money Records, who signed him to the label around age eleven. He recorded with Cash Money labelmates B.G., Juvenile, and Turk as the Hot Boys, releasing Get It How U Live! in 1997 and Guerrilla Warfare in 1999 before launching his solo career with Tha Block Is Hot in 1999, which went platinum that year. Lights Out followed in 2000 and 500 Degreez in 2002. The breakthrough was 2004's Tha Carter — Bring It Back, Go DJ — which reframed him from teen Cash Money act to a serious solo voice in Southern rap. Tha Carter II in 2005 produced Fireman and Hustler Musik. The 2006 through 2008 mixtape run — Da Drought 3, Dedication 2, The Drought Is Over series — saturated the blog era and built unprecedented critical and street consensus around the catalogue. Tha Carter III in June 2008 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with roughly one million copies sold in the first week, anchored by Lollipop, A Milli, and Got Money, and won the Grammy for Best Rap Album along with three other Grammys at the 2009 ceremony. Rebirth in 2010 pushed into rock production with Drop the World featuring Eminem. I Am Not a Human Being in 2010 and the I Am Not a Human Being II in 2013 sat alongside the catalogue spine. Tha Carter IV in 2011 produced 6 Foot 7 Foot and How to Love. A long contractual dispute with Cash Money Records delayed Tha Carter V for several years; it was released in September 2018 and debuted at number one with anchor singles Mona Lisa featuring Kendrick Lamar and Uproar. Funeral in 2020 again hit number one. He founded Young Money Entertainment in 2005 as a Cash Money imprint and signed Drake in 2009 off the So Far Gone mixtape, Nicki Minaj that same year, and Tyga shortly after — the Young Money roster became one of the most commercially dominant rap labels of the streaming era. He has won five Grammy Awards across the career, served briefly on Rikers Island in 2010 on a weapons-possession plea, and has continued to tour heavily across arenas, festivals, and headline package routings. The catalogue's influence on the melodic, AutoTune-inflected rap that followed — through Drake, Future, Young Thug, and the broader Atlanta and New Orleans scenes — is now openly cited as one of the defining stylistic shifts in 21st-century hip-hop.

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