DJ Smokey
Canadian music producer
DJ Smokey (born May 30, 1992), is a pseudonymous music producer based in Montreal, Canada. He is best known for his involvement with cloud rap and the development of the phonk genre, including collaborations with ASAP Mob, Yung Lean, Yung Simmie, and Lil Peep.
In 2025, he hosted the Skrillex album Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!!, while his producer tags grew attention online. He is a member of the Shadow Wizard Money Gang music collective.
Career
Early career and hiatus (2011–2018)
DJ Smokey was raised in Ontario, Canada and received classical piano training in his youth. Inspired by Soulja Boy's use of FL Studio in his productions, he switched his focus from piano to producing in the software in high school. His early work, beginning in 2011 on SoundCloud and YouTube, was inspired by phonk and Memphis rap production, especially SpaceGhostPurrp and Lil Ugly Mane, sampling 90s Memphis rappers like Playa Fly and Kingpin Skinny Pimp.
His Memphis rap and phonk-inspired mixtape, Evil Wayz, published in 2013, was referred to by Bandcamp Daily as a "cult classic" and "one of the best albums of the 'cloud rap' era." In particular, they mentioned the song "Evil Wayz Intro" as "the track that introduced him to the world."
His involvement on SoundCloud, especially with Evil Wayz, led to his first collaborations with the rap collective Raider Klan, facilitated by direct-messaging rappers on the platform. DJ Smokey credited these early collaborations as a contributing factor to producing for other established rappers like Yung Lean.
Several publications have described his early releases as influential within phonk, with comparisons to Lil Ugly Mane.
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