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Omar Jeffery Pineiro[6] (born May 15, 1997), known professionally as Smokepurpp, is an American

rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Originally a record producer, Pineiro later found
success on the audio distribution platform SoundCloud in 2016 after his song "Audi" became
popular. Pineiro was part of the "SoundCloud rap" movement, due to his influence on artists such
as Lil Pump who have since entered the mainstream music market.
Pineiro released his debut commercial mixtape Deadstar on September 28, 2017,[7] and the mixtape
peaked at number 42 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[8]

Contents

 1Early life
 2Career
 3Discography
o 3.1Studio albums
o 3.2Extended plays
o 3.3Mixtapes
o 3.4Singles
 3.4.1As lead artist
 3.4.2As featured artist
 4References
 5External links

Early life[edit]
Omar Jeffery Pineiro was born on May 15, 1997[9] in Chicago, Illinois.[10] He and his family moved
to Miami, Florida when he was three years old.[10] Speaking on his upbringing, Pineiro described
himself during high school as a calm individual who surrounded himself with diverse groups of
people.[11]
Pineiro began his music career as a producer, a hobby he picked up due to boredom. While doing
this, he had a major influence in getting his friend Lil Pump into rapping as well. He began to rap
when no one bought his produced instrumentals and due to the success of several tracks on the
audio distribution platform SoundCloud, Pineiro dropped out of high school in his senior year.[12]
His musical influences are Kanye West, Taking Back Sunday, Every Avenue, Young Thug and
Lucky.[13]

Career[edit]
Pineiro originally started to pursue music in high school, starting as a producer. Pineiro began to rap
due to the lack of people actually buying his produced instrumentals.[14] Pineiro's first song was
released on SoundCloud in 2015, but Pineiro quickly deleted it due to its lack of quality, soon
uploading his second song, "Live Off A Lick" featuring Florida native rapper XXXTentacion.[15] Pineiro
eventually dropped out of high school due to his budding music career.[12] Pineiro later released his
first music video on September 23, 2014, titled "It’s Nothin" with rapper Lil Ominous, whom is also
Pineiro's cousin.
In March 2017, Pineiro signed joint venture record deal with Alamo Records and Interscope
Records.[16] Following this, he announced his debut mixtape on March 9, 2017 on the social media
platform Twitter.[17] Several days later on March 14, 2017, Pineiro announced that his debut
commercial mixtape would be titled Deadstar.[18]
Pineiro released his commercial debut single, "Audi" in May 2017.[19] The single soon became his
biggest song with over 25 million plays on SoundCloud[20] and 122 million streams on Spotify[21] as of
October 2017. In September 2017, Pineiro announced that the release date for Deadstar was
September 22, releasing the single "Bless Yo Trap" following the announcement.[22] Pineiro
announced later on that Deadstar would be delayed, stating no expected release date.[23]
On September 28, 2017, Pineiro released Deadstar. The mixtape included features from artists such
as Chief Keef, Juicy J and Travis Scott.[7] The mixtape debuted at 42 on the Billboard 200 albums
chart.[8] Following the release of the mixtape, On November 8, 2017, Pineiro was on the MTV
show TRL, where he announced that he has a collaboration mixtape coming soon with Murda
Beatz titled Bless Yo Trap.[24] He later released 2 singles from the mixtape called 123 and Do Not
Disturb, the latter which featured Lil Yachty and Offset from the Migos. The mixtape was released on
April 13, 2018.[25]
On March 20, 2018, while Pineiro was at SXSW, he did an interview with Nardwuar the Human
Serviette, and in that interview, Nardwuar exposed that he has a project coming in 2018
called Sound of Space, along with his Deadstar 2 project.[26]
On April 19, 2019, Pineiro released his EP Lost Planet via Alamo Records. The EP includes guest
appearances from fellow rappers Gunna, Lil Pump, and NLE Choppa.[27]

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