Darrell Thomas also known as Smiley-D was born on March 9th 1988 in Oklahoma City, OK. When he was 12 years old he moved with his mother and sisters to Bremerton, WA, where he finished high school. Smiley-D started rapping at the age of 12 by recording on cassette tapes and freestyling at parties. He began pursuing his rap career at the age of 17 while being influenced by various hip hop artists such as T.I., B.G., Eminem, G-Unit, etc. and the street life, he was slipping away from the faith (Christianity) that his mother raised him in. At this time in his life his father wasn’t really around to teach him how to be a man so he chose O.G. gang members and thugs as his role models and began participating in robberies and selling drugs. At the age of 18 in the year 2006, Smiley-D moved back to Oklahoma City to take his rap career more serious and started hitting the streets hard with demos, flyers, and word of mouth. Smiley-D was determined to get famous and did whatever it took to get money. He started shooting music videos later in his career putting them on Youtube and World Star Hip Hop, linking up with artists such as Philthy Rich, TKO Capone, MTV Riff Raff, Sha Sha Jones, T-Nutty, Stevie Joe, Tiah Tolliver, etc. He was under the management of Nuch (manager of Mac Dre, Keak Da Sneak, Yuk Mouth, etc) in early 2011. After some life changes he made he took his rap career in another direction providing a more positive message of his faith and perseverance over difficult obstacles. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.