SmokePurpp

He likes to post images of him receiving oral sex from female fans on his Instagram page. Rapper Lil Pump is his best friend. Smokepurpp and Lil Pump, along with fellow Florida rapper XXXTentacion, often tour and perform together.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 15th May, 1997, and was given the name Omar Jeffery Pineiro. His mother is of Hispanic ethnicity while his father is of mixed heritage. When he was three years old, he moved with his family to Miami (Dade County), Florida.

In one of his interviews he said that the area where he grew up was not a nice neighbourhood and had a lot of criminal activity and violence. He has described of himself in childhood and high school as a calm individual surrounded by diverse types and groups of people.

He began using drugs at a young age. He began smoking marijuana at the age of eight years and started using Xanax at the age of sixteen. He even sold Xanax for a few years.

He attended North Gardens High School in Miami. It was in high school that he started to seriously pursue music and became a music producer. He dropped out in his senior year at high school after tasting success in music.

He started producing music in high school. He used to work on the software DWA FL Studio to produce music. He did not like the attention of being a rapper and therefore preferred to work behind the scenes as a producer.

He has himself admitted in multiple interviews that he failed to find success as a producer as his beats were not very good and nobody wanted to rap on them. He started to rap over his own instrumentals after failing to find success as a producer.

He uploaded his first song on the online audio distribution platform ‘SoundCloud’ in July 2015 but deleted it as he felt it lacked quality. Soon after, he uploaded his second song on SoundCloud, titled ‘Live off a lick’, featuring rapper XXXTentacion.

His first song that became successful on SoundCloud was ‘Sam$ung Jumpin’. His next hit on SoundCloud was the song ‘Ski Mask’ which went viral and had millions of views on the website.

He is categorized in the media and the music industry as a ‘SoundCloud rapper’. His musical style is categorized as ‘Lo-fi rap’ and/or ‘trap’. His songs contain recurring lyrical references to drug use, luxury cars, gang violence, and sexual activity.

Although he has released only two mixtapes, ‘Deadstar’ and ‘Bless Yo Trap’, both of them have been major successes. Singles from these two mixtapes have been very popular on the charts and on the internet and have featured collaborations with leading rappers and producers.