Horace Bernard Walls III (born December 30, 2001), known professionally as Nardo Wick, is an American rapper. He signed with

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in 2021 and gained mainstream recognition following the commercial release of his single " Who Want Smoke?" in January of that year. The song spawned a remix featuring rappers

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, and

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, which peaked at number 17 on the '' Billboard'' Hot 100 and received platinum certification by the

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(RIAA). His debut studio album, '' Who Is Nardo Wick?'' (2021) was released in December of that same year and peaked at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

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

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's song, "Opp Pack", from the deluxe edition of the latter's commercial mixtape ''

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''. 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

, and

. The song serves as the second single to ''Who Is Nardo Wick?'' and was released alongside an accompanying music video that was directed by

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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

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, which debuted at number 17 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and became certified triple platinum by the

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, 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 "

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", which features fellow rappers

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and

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, on November 29, 2021. It serves as the second single of '' Who Is Nardo Wick?'' and would go on to peak at number 58 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and be certified double platinum. The subsequent album was released four days later, on December 3, 2021. It features new guest appearances from

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. It became certified platinum by the RIAA, and peaked at number 16 on the US albums chart. On July 22, 2022, Wick released the deluxe version ''Who Is Nardo Wick? 2'' with additional guest features from

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and

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. On March 31, 2023, a hit single by Wick was released, " Hot Boy", which peaked at number 99 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and featured American rapper

. On May 5, 2023, he was co-featured alongside fellow rapper

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on fellow rapper

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's single " Pissy", the song later appeared as the fourth single on Gucci's sixteenth studio album, ''

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''. Later in 2023, Wick was co-featured alongside G Herbo on Mudbaby Ru's single "Gun Class ll".

Personal life

On August 18, 2021, Walls was arrested by

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on a concealed weapon charge. He was released soon afterward.

Discography

American rapper Nardo Wick has released one

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, and 12

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(including three as a featured artist). His signature song is '' Who Want Smoke?'' which has a remix that is featuring Chicago rappers

, and

, and it features Atlanta based rapper

. The remix is stylized with two question marks.

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Other charted and certified songs

Guest appearances

Notes

References

External links

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