Melessa Smoke, better known as her stage name Lil Smoke born January 9, 1992 is a entrepreneur, singer, rapper and songwriter. Lil Smoke was raised in Millbrook, AL and is currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. She started rapping in 2016 as a way to express herself, and always knew it would become something bigger. It wasn’t until 2017, when she really started taking her rap career seriously. That same year she went on to win Coast 2 Coast Live in Los Angeles, CA in September of 2017. Lil Smoke dropped her first mixtape called “Hottest in the City” in April of 2018. Just four months later turned around and dropped another mixtape “Anything Possible” in August of 2018. (Which is continuously streaming on Spinrilla. Lil Smoke has won “The most slept on Hip Hop Female Artist” Award of Alabama in July 2019 , “Female Album/Mixtape Artist” 2020, “Bama Hip Hop/Rap Female” Artist 2020, and Bama Female/ Mixtape Artist of The Alabama Music Awards in 2021. Lil Smoke also won the BNE “Hottest Female Artist” in 2020 totaling 5 titles under her belt.