Willie James Ray III (born October 9, 1991), known professionally as Lil Will, is an African-American rapper from Centreville,IL. On October 9, 2016, he released his first EP - Album The World Is Mines. Lil Will has released Ten mixtapes , and has collaborated on songs, tracks, and singles with artists such as Kevo, Echo, and other Artists. He also is the founder and CEO of Dream Team Empire. 1991–2016: Early life and career beginnings Willie J. Ray III was born on October 9, 1991 in Centreville, Illinois. He later moved with his Parents and Brother and two Sisters to Cahokia,Illinois in 1999, when he was 9-years-old. He enjoyed writing poetry as a child, and began rapping at the age of 5. In 2014, Ray III Released Two Collab Mixtapes With Kevo Entitled Life of Some Real Niggas 1 & Life of Some Real Niggas 2 on Dream Team Empire. It was pressed onto about 500 CDs and Online and got distributed . In 2015-16, Ray III has dropped a series of Mixtapes and Singles, Back 2 The Streets , Everyday, Real Life , Real Life 2 , Real Life 3, Real Life 4, Words of Wisdom, American Dream and made his own label, Dream Team Empire Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.