Lee Arthur Carter (born October 7, 1971), known professionally by his stage name Viper, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

Carter was arrested on January 4, 2024 and charged with aggravated kidnapping for keeping a woman captive in his garage for several years.

[10] The album was created in collaboration with various artists signed to local music label Dope House Records.

[citation needed] Carter continued to release mixtapes regularly throughout the early 2000s under his Rhyme Tyme Records label through the CD Baby website,[11] becoming one of the first cloud rap artists.

[12] Throughout this period he showed frustration at his obscurity and limited exposure, as detailed on one of his early songs, "9900 Haters On The Wall", where he claimed out of ten thousand people who heard his albums on the site, only a hundred had bought them.

[11] His obscurity would continue until early 2013, when the title track of his album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack, released in 2008, was posted onto YouTube.

Sputnik Music wrote that the album fuses "a nostalgic and ethereal blend of cloud rap and vaporwave".

People on the Internet are initially drawn to Carter because of his blatant disregard for grammar, outrageously violent and drug-centric lyrics, and how sonically bizarre he is in general.

[19][20] However, a vast majority of these releases contain songs that have been chopped and screwed, slowed down, or simply recycled and put under different names with no change to their content.

[23] Musically, he is recognized for his deep voice, occasional use of autotune, and slowed-down, low-fidelity and glitchy and ethereal production that predates cloud rap and is reminiscent of the chopped and screwed subgenre native to Carter's Houston scene.

[6] On October 22, 2024, Carter's ex-wife, Amanda Paulin, was arrested and charged with over 50 counts of fraud and tampering with physical evidence.