Uh oh! Look who’s smelling and feeling himself a little too much! Check out the conversation Little Diggy recently had with MTV.com about his career. Diggy Simmons wants to make one thing clear: Hip-hop is not just a hobby for the “Run’s House” star. “This is what I do,” he told MTV News. “I get in interviews: ‘Is this a hobby?’ I almost feel like stopping the interview, you know what I’m saying? I don’t get why they think just ’cause I did the show I can’t do this. [TV] wasn’t my profession. It was something that we were approached with and we did. The reality show, for me, obviously, wasn’t anything that I really wanted to do with my career. So I don’t get why people are like, ‘Oh, now he’s doing this?’ It’s not ‘now’; this is the beginning of me going toward something I really want to do.” Hmm. And here we were thinking “Run’s House” was about his dad… The teen MC — another one of our 11 for ’11 stars to watch — got his buzz started last year when he put out a viral video of him paying homage to his famous father, Rev Run of Run-DMC fame, when Diggy rocked over Nas’ “Made You Look.” Now, the 15-year-old is working on his debut album for Atlantic Records, home to heavyweights like T.I., B.o.B and Hottest Breakthrough winner Wiz Khalifa. Diggy is hoping to turn the tables on his reputation as a reality-TV talent to bona fide hip-hop heavyweight. “Me just writing and the expression of different things that I go through,” Diggy said, describing his forthcoming collection. “People are like, ‘Man, what is he even gonna write about?’ But if you listen to the mixtape or listen to the tracks, there’s a lot of different topics and things that I touch on. And a lot of people are like, ‘Oh, I can relate to this at any age.’ It’s like a breath of fresh air. So I’m really thankful for all the support that I been receiving over the past year or couple months.” Yeah, see? Now we’re not sure we like you all that much, little Diggy. Tone it down some.
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Little Diggy Simmons Wants You To Know It Ain’t A Game
