Smokepurpp

Florida rapper Smokepurpp first attracted attention as a close collaborator with Lil Pump, tapping into the oblivion and excess of the SoundCloud rap scene during its breakthrough years in the late 2010s. His brash style on early singles and mixtapes mellowed into a somewhat more textural production sound on his 2019 studio debut Deadstar 2. Born in Chicago in 1997 but later relocating to Miami, Florida, Omar Pineiro initially tried his hand at producing, wanting the fortune of a lucrative entertainment career but none of the attention or the limelight. After a few false star...