Carlos Jacob Henriquez, better known as Lil 43 or simply 8, is an underground American record producer, songwriter, and now singer-songwriter under Lil 86.

8 started writing music in late 2019 and his production career in 2020 under the moniker 780 Beatz, during the COVID-19 pandemic. His first songs were made on GarageBand, but were later deleted and cannot be recovered. The earliest known Lil 43 track, EPIC INTRO, is unreleased and was previewed in a now-deleted snippet. The song was made in August of 2020 and was supposed to be the intro to L’s now-scrapped mixtape, CRASH. In 2023, 8 began designing cover arts and rapping under the name Lil 86, beginning a career as a full-time recording artist on January 1, 2024.

In May 2021, L announced the release of his debut studio album, Music Of Depression. The album remained unreleased that summer and on August 7th, 2021, L’s debut EP, 4 3 4 3 was released. Music Of Depression was finally released on August 28th. On August 31st, another EP titled The RCS Series V1 was released. L acknowledged his first known girlfriend at the time, Nicole Najera, with the release of his second album Luv U Till Death on September 4th, 2021, along with changing his name from 780 Beatz to Lil 43. A sequel titled Luv U To Heaven was released a week later on September 11th. 8 and Najera’s relationship ended shortly after that due to unknown reasons. On October 2nd, an LP titled Life Isn’t Fun was released, which took shots at his enemies. A deluxe for Luv U To Heaven was planned but didn’t clear, though most of the songs were unofficially released, later being unreleased for good. In November, a now-deleted EP for at-the-time-girlfriend Angelina Overdorf, or Lil ARMY, titled Party Of Two was released. To end the year off, Lil 43 released his 4th studio album, luv u to infinity on December 25th, 2021.

L was quiet for a bit, but returned on February 11th, 2022 with the lead single titled From The Inside, to his 5th studio album, Music Of Depression, Pt. 2. The album was released on March 19th, and it took shots at ex-girlfriend Brooklyn Bolack for cheating on L multiple times. This was his biggest album under the name Lil 43. A 6th album titled Angel Dust was released on April 16th, another LP titled Life Still Isn’t Fun on May 7th, and an EP called Memories EP to start the summer on June 18th. On July 16th, a long-awaited sequel to 4 3 4 3, titled 4 3 4 3: The Other Side was released. This features L’s biggest track, Carry It. 4 3 4 3 (Anniversary Edition) and Memories EP 2 were released on August 7th, 2022 and August 26th, respectively.

On September 1st, 2022, Lil 43 ended his LP series with the heart-wrenching Life Was Never Fun. Throughout October, L released two more EPs: The RCS Series V2 on October 31st.

Lil 43’s 7th studio album, always mine was released on December 25th, 2022. The rollout began on November 11th with crossed your line featuring Shirinai and continued on the 25th, with choppa for your haters featuring TatyannaD, and two more singles after that. The release date was long ago confirmed to be that December 25th.

An 8th and final studio album, Life Never Ends, was released on June 16th, 2023, after being teased for almost two years. It was followed by a deluxe version, Nothing Dies on August 25, 2023.

In August 2023, L revealed that since he is beginning to be a rapper, under his new and permanent name Lil 86 he would only be releasing one more LP, titled So I Bleed…, on October 27, 2023. He also redesigned some of the cover arts of his past projects. So I Bleed… featured 8 as the sole guest appearance on the track Need a New Me, which serves as a preview to 8 beginning his full-time career as a recording artist.

On January 1, 2024, with the release of the single Enter Lil 86, 8 began releasing full tracks featuring his voice. On April 25, 2024, 8 released an EP with six select Lil 43 tracks, reworked with 8’s voice on them. This was originally planned to be followed up and turned into a series but was cancelled in 2025. The track ecstasy (i miss you, pt. 2 v2) was released because 8 needed to recreate the Justin Bieber sample on the original in order for the track to remain on streaming platforms. 8 recreated the sample and added an original verse to the song, releasing it on August 7, 2024 to commemorate three years since he had begun releasing music in general. This was the last track under Lil 43 to ever see an official release.

Lil 86 no longer uses the name Lil 43, now crediting himself as Lil 86 when producing his own tracks. This began in the summer of 2025.