A year later, in-house producer Mannie Fresh partnered him with the 14-year-old B.G.
Combining a strong work ethic with aggressive self-promotion, the 11-year-old convinced the Cash Money label to take him on, even if it was just for odd jobs around the office. He found music was the best way to express himself, and after taking the name Gangsta D he began writing rhymes. and raised in the infamous New Orleans neighborhood of Hollygrove, he was a straight-A student but never felt his true intelligence was expressed through any kind of report card. A game-changing artist and celebrity, Lil Wayne began his career as a near-novelty - a preteen delivering hardcore hip-hop - but through years of maturation and reinventing the mixtape game, he developed into a million-selling rapper with a massive body of work, one so inventive and cunning that it makes his famous claim of being the 'best rapper alive' worth considering.
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