Batch Samba Gaye aka Smokey or Smoke Doctor is another hip-hop star going big as far as world hip-hop is concerned.

Born in Serrekunda, the young star, after his high school at Saint Augustine's High, left the country for  Canada to pursue BBa at the University of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He later moved to Toronto where he started hitting freestyle sessions in downtown Toronto and hooked up with some local rappers and started a clique called the Five Pointaz.

They made a couple of songs together and Smokey later opened his own record label called Down Home Records. Smokey has now come back home to record his debut solo album, which is to be released on May 7th 2007. Back home he has setup a network called La Cosa Nostra with some Gambian rappers and has released a a compilation called 'Get familiar vol 1' which is already out