Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Also in 1999 , Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot , selling over one million copies in the U.S.
Simplified: Get It How U Live , released in 1997 , was Lil Wayne 's first album with Hot Boys , and Tha Block is Hot , his solo debut , came out 1999 .