Troy Vashon Donte Lane (born April 13, 1996), professionally known as UnoTheActivist (now known as The Act), is an American recording artist and record producer born in Atlanta, Georgia, raised in Fairburn, Georgia, and based in Los Angeles, California.

Citing Lil Wayne and OutKast as inspirations, Uno began making music as Johnny Ace in 2011, forming the Atlanta-based rap group TFZ alongside his close family friend Playboi Carti. In 2012 he changed his rap moniker to A$3 CliChe. He released his debut mixtape as UnoTheActivist, No More Thotties, in October 2015, followed by Gift of Gab two months later. His debut studio mixtape, Live.Shyne.Die, came out in September 2017. His debut album, 8, released in July 2020, the latter two being his last and only projects released under Republic Records.

In a 2018 interview with XXL, he explained how the “Uno” in his name comes from a nickname given to him by his absent father, as he was the first of two sons, causing the Spanish nickname for “one.” He then further elaborated on how “TheActivist” came from being “the only positive nigga in the trap”:

Niggas shootin' craps, you know what I’m saying, against the wall. Me, I’m the nigga who never shot craps. I’m the nigga who never, who never sold— I just, you know what I’m saying— music notes. That was me, everytime. I’m like “Bruh, this is not how y'all gon' get the real money, you know what I’m saying?” This illegal shit, you know what I’m saying. Of course, we real trap niggas, of course y'all gon' do all that, but time to get some legal cash. And once I said that, I got the ‘TheActivist.’ The only positive nigga in the trap. So, then I became ‘UnoTheActivist,’ it just kinda rolled off the tongue, you know, ‘UnoTheActivist,’ you know what I’m saying?

Uno also shared how people commonly misinterpreted Activist for Actavis, a pharmaceutical company known for producing promethazine-codeine — also dubbed “lean.”

Activist and Actavis. The [Actavis] is the syrup, the Act. That’s automatically having all the trap niggas, they on my side, period, ‘cause they think I’m talkin’ ‘bout drank. But the whole time, I’m 'The Activist,’ I’m here to give back to the kids. I’m here to inspire the kids that you ain’t gotta sell your soul, you ain’t gotta sell these drugs, you ain’t gotta do none of that.

Some of Uno’s common collaborators include Thouxanbanfauni, his younger brother MDMA, LUCKI, Maxo Kream, Mar90s, D Savage, Playboi Carti and Trippie Redd.