Darrell Thomas also known as Smiley-D was born on March 9th 1988 in Oklahoma City, OK. He moved 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 hip hop artists and the street life. He chose O.G. gang members and thugs as his role models and adopted the streets as his family and chose the street life as his way of living. 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. 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, T-Nutty, Stevie Joe, Sha Sha Jones, etc. He was under the management of Nuchie (manager of Mac Dre, Keak Da Sneak, Yuk Mouth, etc) in early 2011. This was the breaking