Diggy Simmons Mixtape Grabs Kanye West’s Attention

Even if you don’t watch MTV, you know that Diggy Simmons is a relative of either Rev Run of Run-D.M.C. or his brother Russell Simmons. Diggy is specifically Run’s 15 year-old-son who may just be known to the world as one of those wacky little kids on the show, Run’s House. However, it looks and sounds like the rap royalty legacy may just continue with Diggy as he’s now signed to Atlantic Records and even caught the attention of Kanye West – not for his family tree – but for his musical talent.

Diggy first out up a video of him rapping over Nas‘ “Made You Look” on his blog and since then it’s gone viral. The track came from his mixtape titled, “First Flight.” (Who knew kids like Diggy and Justin Bieber would get massive contracts due to mere videos?) He also found his director through Twitter (internet madness!) and soon enough he was shooting a video for his rhymes over Nas beats with man who goes by the name, Phil Da God.

Now, we know Diggy is only 15 years old and he has a lot of legends to live up especially since his dad was in Run-D.M.C.! Diggy knows this too; he was nervous to even try the track out and since Nas is completely major in the scheme of rap, he didn’t want to become another amateur on the internet.

He shared his feelings with MTV when he told them:

“One day I just got in the studio and blasted it, and I just went off on it. I told at least three people before I was going to do it. They were like, ‘Yo, you got to do that beat justice. That’s a Nas beat.’ I thought doing a nice viral video, that would’ve helped it too.”

The video of his track has gotten over 200,000 views and even Kanye West took notice when he posted the video on his famous blog along with the quote, “I KNEW THIS KID WAS [GOING] TO BE FRESH. I KNEW IT!”

Diggy was obviously honored. (He is only 15, after all.) His reaction to that compliment went as such:

“Man, it feels good. He’s definitely one of the best. He’s like one of the craziest wordsmiths. His verses are amazing and I look up to him in hip-hop, so that co-sign, definitely once they said it in perspective, it was like, ‘Wow.’ “

You can watch the video for yourself below and see if you’re impressed. Even if he is just starting out, we had a feeling one of Run’s kids would do something great career-wise.

What do you think of Diggy Simmons as a rapper?