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After matriculating to Marion Abramson Senior High School, Carter dropped out at age 14 to focus on his musical career. He later attended Eleanor McMain Secondary School for two years, where he was an honor student and a member of the drama club, playing the Tin Man in the school's production of The Wiz. Ĭarter was enrolled in the gifted program at Lafayette Elementary School. Carter has a tattoo dedicated to McDonald. Carter has said that he considers his deceased stepfather Reginald "Rabbit" McDonald to be his real father. Asked if his father knew of this, Carter replied, "He knows now". So I don't want to be Dwayne, I'd rather be Wayne". When CBS interviewer Katie Couric asked why he used the name Wayne instead of his given name, Carter explained that "I dropped the D because I'm a junior and my father is living and he's not in my life and he's never been in my life. His parents divorced when he was two and his father permanently abandoned the family. His mother, a cook, gave birth to him when she was 19 years old. was born on September 27, 1982, and spent his first few years in the impoverished Hollygrove neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana's 17th Ward.