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Nardo Wick in July 2022
Background information
Birth name	Horace Bernard Walls III
Born	(2001-12-30) December 30, 2001 (age 22) Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop trap gangsta rap
Occupation(s)	Rapper songwriter
Years active	2020–present
Labels	Flawless RCA

Horace Bernard Walls III (born December 30, 2001), known professionally as Nardo Wick, is an American rapper. Signed to Flawless Entertainment and RCA Records, he is best known for his 2021 single "Who Want Smoke?", which has a remix featuring fellow rappers G Herbo, Lil Durk, and 21 Savage that propelled it to debut at number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and earn platinum certification by the RIAA. Wick released his debut studio album, Who Is Nardo Wick?, that same year.

Early Life

Wick is an only child who grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Wick listened to and was influenced by Gucci Mane as a child, who would which later feature Wick on a song.

Career

Wick released his debut single, "Lolli". He then released the single "Slide". He then released the single "Came Up" as the final release of the year. Starting off 2021, he released the single "Who Want Smoke?" on January 22, 2021. Wick then released the single "Shhh" on April 23, 2021. It serves as the lead single to his debut studio album, Who Is Nardo Wick?. On August 27, 2021 , Wick was featured on fellow American rapper 42 Dugg's song, "Opp Pack", from the deluxe edition of the latter's commercial mixtape Free Dem Boyz. The song served as Wick's first time being featured on a song by another artist. On October 8, 2021, Wick released another version of "Who Want Smoke?", which features fellow rappers G Herbo, Lil Durk, and 21 Savage. The song serves as the second single to Who Is Nardo Wick? and was released alongside an accompanying music video that was directed by Cole Bennett in association with Lyrical Lemonade. The new version boosted the popularity of the song alongside a dance to it that was created on the video-sharing app TikTok, which debuted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA, which gave Wick both his first charting song and his first song that received a certification, respectively. Two days later, Wick was featured on rapper Katana 10400's single, "She Want Me Dead!", which served as Wick's second feature and first time being featured on a single. Wick released the single "Me or Sum", which features fellow rappers Future and Lil Baby, on November 29, 2021. It serves as the second single of Who Is Nardo Wick? The album was released four days later, on December 3, 2021. It features new guest appearances from Hit-Boy, Big30, and Lakeyah. On July 22, 2022, Wick released the deluxe version Who Is Nardo Wick? 2 with additional guest features from The Kid Laroi and Latto. On May 5, 2023, he was co-featured alongside fellow rapper Roddy Ricch on fellow rapper Gucci Mane's single Pissy, the song later appeared as the fourth single on Gucci's sixteenth studio album, Breath of Fresh Air.

Personal life

On August 18, 2021, Walls was arrested by US marshals on a concealed weapon charge. He was released soon afterward. In the Big Facts podcast he mentioned that he would rather rob than work an honest job. He later changed his opinion on the stance.

Discography

American rapper Nardo Wick has released one Studio album, and 12 singles (including three as a featured artist). His signature song is ''Who want smoke?'' which has a remix that is featuring Chicago rappers G Herbo, and Lil Durk, and it features Atlanta based rapper 21 Savage. The remix is stylized with two question marks instead of one.

Studio albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other charted and certified songs

Guest appearances