20 Facts About Diggy Simmons

Daniel Dwayne "Diggy" Simmons III was born on March 21,1995 and is an American rapper, singer and actor from Queens, New York City.

Diggy Simmons was chosen as part of XXL magazine's 2011 Annual Freshman List, and joined Lupe Fiasco's short-lived rap collective, All City Chess Club as its youngest member that same year.

Diggy Simmons released his debut mixtape, The First Flight, in 2009.

Early in 2010, Diggy Simmons uploaded a video of himself freestyling over the Nas song, "Made You Look".

Early the next year, Diggy Simmons was named one of Billboard's "Artists to Watch 2011" and was selected to XXL's annual Freshmen list.

Diggy Simmons released his first major-label single, "Copy, Paste", soon thereafter.

Diggy Simmons performed the song during the pre-show for the 2011 BET Awards.

That month, Diggy Simmons released the song "Just Begun" however Diggy Simmons tweeted on Twitter it was not going to be on the album.

On October 24,2011, Diggy Simmons released "Do It Like You" as the second official single from his debut album, Unexpected Arrival a music video has been released with the song's featured artist Jeremih appearing in the clip.

Diggy Simmons announced that he was releasing his fourth mixtape titled, Out of This World via Twitter.

In May 2014, Diggy Simmons released the first single from his upcoming mixtape Out of This World entitled "My Girl" featuring Trevor Jackson.

On February 10,2015, Diggy Simmons released his first single in three years, "Ain't Bout To Do" featuring French Montana.

Diggy Simmons appeared on Scream Nation's Back 2 School Fest that started September 11,2015 in Florida.

Diggy Simmons had a small role in the 2012 comedy Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, that opened across the United States December 25,2012.

Diggy Simmons landed his own 2-hour TV film pilot on BET titled The Start Up, which stars Teyana Taylor.

Diggy Simmons plays Blake, a 19-year-old college student and blogger who tries to get his blog of 5+ years up and running with the help of his friends.

Since 2018, Diggy Simmons starred in a recurring role on the TV series Grown-ish where he plays Doug, Jazlyn's boyfriend.

In 2010, Diggy Simmons launched a line of urban sneakers called Chivalrous Culture.

Diggy Simmons says he gets inspiration from other artists such as Kanye and Jay Z The first shoe model is called the "Hamachi".

Diggy Simmons has expressed an interest in such bands as Maroon 5, Passion Pit and Arctic Monkeys.