A hip hop artist who started under the name Razpy, he built his brand by releasing EPs, touring, and filming music videos through his company Black Umbrella.

[3] In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Seattle, Simone emerged as an active member of the self-declared Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

[2][7] According to Snopes, on June 15 Andy Ngo presented a video clip from Simones’s June 8 Facebook feed where Simone takes a rifle from the trunk of his car and hands it to another protester after "rumors developed that members of the right-wing group Proud Boys were going to move into the protest area to set fires and stir chaos.

[14] One of the alleged victims, claims Simone sex trafficked her in Las Vegas for over a year, until she finally broke free in 2017.

[14][15] Court documents reportedly state Simone targets "young, vulnerable women" who are involved in sex work or susceptible to it.