Run" after he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister[1] by E. Bernard Jordan, Simmons's spiritual mentor.

Run was a feature in the single "Song 4 Lovers" by UK pop band Liberty X in September 2005.

The music video for that song was directed by Bill Schacht for Aestheticom and reached broadcast airplay chart positions of No.

The first single from the album, "Mind on the Road", is featured in the EA Sports's Madden NFL 06 video game.

In 2008, Simmons and his wife Justine teamed up with Kool-Aid and a non-profit organization called KaBOOM!

With Kool-Aid, they are helping to build twenty four playgrounds over the course of 2008 and hope to raise awareness for the need for safe play spaces.

[citation needed] In October 2011, Rev Run was a special guest of Fellowship Church based out of Grapevine, Texas.

[10] She died shortly after being born on September 26, 2006, due to omphalocele, a birth defect that caused her organs to grow outside her body.

[11][12] The Simmons' allowed MTV camera crews of Run's House to document baby Victoria's death, telling People that "God, in my mind, gave us something to go through in front of America, so we documented it on-camera – not so much to show you sadness, but to show you how we, as ministers, would handle this tragedy.

[13] The Simmons family lives in Saddle River, New Jersey[14] in a six-bedroom colonial-style home that was listed for sale in 2007 for $5.5 million.