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Billy Mann Sales III (born Nov 5, 1979), better known by his stage name Billy Sales (sometimes called Smoke), is an American rapper, songwriter actor and record producer from Los Angeles California, raised in the historical Venice Beach. His debut single, I Promise was released on Feb 19, 2016, and received positive reviews from critics. The single was voted best Hip Hop song of 2016. October 2015 he was casted for a small role in (G7) a Snoop Dog film, and March 2016 casted for his 2nd role (also in a Snoop Dog film).
2016 Billy Sales as an Indie artist signed a worldwide distribution deal with BigTop Entertainment/RedEye Worldwide releasing the official video for I Promise on Vevo/YouTube. Directed and shot by #ykmgmadeit Erick Sanchez and Lawrence Le.
Early life
Billy Sales mother Tawni Lin Jones was only 13 when she gave birth to him, the two lived in Berkley CA. during Billy's early childhood where he was constantly challenged and at times bullied due to his mothers sexuality, drug use and gang affiliations. Billy's mother played a huge role teaching him about diversity, standing up for what's right and never giving up no matter what life throws at you. When Billy was 5 years old his grandmother gained legal custody of him and he moved to California's historical Venice Beach, the two would spend the remaining of Billy's childhood in the West Los Angeles area.
Career
Career beginnings
Starting out Billy Sales began working on numerous singles while he was still a student at the Art Institute of Los Angeles. He then gained some recognition for his feature alongside Snoop Dogs artist "Daz Dillinger as well as opening for Daz at his official single release party, and being a part of the new hip hop scene in the West Los Angeles area. During his early years, he became a member of a local hip hop group, called "Inphinit Groove", who had released several songs on their official Myspace page and toured lightly threw Los Angeles
In 2009 Billy Sales started gaining popularity for releasing back to back songs and mix tapes. In 2011 Billy Sales was given an opportunity to create an original song for the official Arnold Classic competition. Billy Sales has been linked to projects with platinum recording artist and has performed live all over the country.
Billy Sale's mix tapes at this period of time were met with limited success. In Aprilt 2009, he released Industry Killah via Datpiff.com. In February 2010, he released I "Smoke" The Best Weed.
His follow up projects include
- Royalties Over Loyalty
- You Got It volume 8
- Trilogy
In 2012 Billy Sales (Smoke) affiliation with Souljah Boy's SODMG gained him a lot of attention with features including Bang By Tiny Kurupt Feat Smoke off the Coast 2 Coast mix tape Vol. 216 hosted by Wale. This feature opened more doors for Billy to show his incredible word play and bar-game. Billy Sales was rated one of the best up and coming artist of our time, Billy's indie success can also be credited to the extremely hard working DBG (Drop Bomb Gang) team for promoting and developing songs like the Halloween Anthem, Feel Me, 3-D and more Souljah Boy himself recognized the skill and talent of this young icon and the official Touchdown remix was made, Touchdown Souljah Boy ft. Smoke (Billy Sales) .
In January 2014 Billy Sales begain to create original music with up and coming producer Lamon "Influence" Patterson. The duo started branding the title "The Billy Sales Influence" recording back to back singles, and enough music for a half of dozen albums. In mid 2015 The Billy Sales Influence released the non-official video for Where I Live shot by Josh Korb .
2015-2016: #YKMGMADEIT
In 2015 Billy Sales partnered with the talented Erick Sanchez, creator and founder of #ykmgmadeit , the two began developing videos and promotional material for the Billy Sales brand. In 2016 #ykmgmadeit released the official video for I Promise, Billy Sales debut single featured on Vevo . To date Billy Sales has been casted in two up and coming Snoop Dogg movies (G7 featuring, Menace To Society's Tyrin Turner and a second untitled film. You can also see Billy Sales in the film California Solo
Personal life
After graduating High school Billy spent a few years in college studying graphic design and multi media. Shortly after he began a career in education where he became a Behavior Therapist

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