Young Child; Young Money Part 3

Lil Wayne recovered from the shooting incident and went right into a bigger music career. He got with Lil Doggie, which was one of the new coming rappers in Cash Money. They were called the B.G.’z and recorded the album “True Story” in 1995. It didn’t make as much progress as they really expected. He dropped out of 10^th grade. He fathered his first child, Reginae Carter, with his high school sweetheart, Antonia. She was named after his stepfather, Reginald. His stepfather died in 1997 after telling him he wasn’t allowed to see Baby anymore. His stepfather’s death was a stressful time, but he got the opportunity to work with Brian Williams again. He joined a new group with Juvenile, Turk, and B.G., which was known as Lil Doggie earlier, and was called “The Hot Boyz”. They recorded their first album, titled “Get It How U Live”. It sold over 400,000 copies. It reached #37 on the Billboard’s Charts. They released their second album “Guerrilla Warfare”, which went platinum in less than a few months. It was #1 on the Billboard’s R&B/HipHop Charts and #5 on the Billboard’s 200. One of the album’s songs was “I Need a Hot Girl”. That song reached #65 on the charts in 1999. Also in 1999, Dwayne went and recorded “The Block is Hot” after going solo. His solo debut was at #3 on the Billboard’s album charts and #1 on the Billboard’s R&B/HipHop charts. Before he was known over  several states, after he was known over all the states.