Club Shay Shay - Angela Simmons Part 1

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
When you did Daddy's Girl, you promoted the sneaker company, Pastry Footwear, and it went from 15 million in the first year to 75 million during its production and surpassed Jordan at Foot Locker. Zendaya rocked them.

**Angela Simmons** (0:10)
You know, there were no sneakers for women by women that understood the design part, and it just stood out. I mean, going to these Foot Locker stores and 3,000 plus people lining up just to come see us and us to sign autographs and for them to buy sneakers was like, whoa, this is different. We were like, what? We're competing with Jordan? We love Jordan, you know what I mean?

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:55)
Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shay Shay. I am your host, Shannon Sharpe. Also the proprietor of Club Shay Shay. Stopping by for Conversation and Drink today is Reality TV Royalty. She was on the cult classic MTV's Run House. She's the daughter of a founding member of the iconic rap group Run-D.M.C. with her father being Reverend Run. She's become a mogul in her own right though. A successful CEO, a beauty entrepreneur, fashion designer, top performing footwear seller, food industry leader, fitness enthusiast, producer, creator, artist, philanthropist, media personality, social media influencer, an entertainer, an actress and a mom, and now about to add music.
She good. She got an album coming out. Here she is, the very talented Ms. Angela Simmons.

**Angela Simmons** (1:36)
Hello.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:38)
Thank you so much. Unbelievable. All these titles and now music.

**Angela Simmons** (1:42)
Yes.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:43)
We got the very talented and lovely Marissa bringing us a drink because we got to toast everything. We're here at Eleven. It's an unbelievable establishment here. So thank you, Eleven, for hosting us.

**Angela Simmons** (1:55)
Thank you.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:57)
Thank you, Marissa.

**Angela Simmons** (1:58)
You're welcome.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:00)
To everything that you've accomplished and will accomplish.

**Angela Simmons** (2:03)
Thank you.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:03)
Salute. Thank you for stopping by.
The world got introduced to you on Reverend Run's House. What was that like and how did that change you? Because you were very young at the time.

**Angela Simmons** (2:21)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:21)
So how were you able to handle all that fame?

**Angela Simmons** (2:25)
I mean, it didn't happen immediately. We started filming. I was graduating from high school and so we filmed it. It was around my graduation time and then it hit after.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:36)
So you were already done with school then?

**Angela Simmons** (2:39)
Yeah, it was great because I was leaving, done with the whole school thing, had my good time. Then it was like I was graduating and going to college at that point. So the fame and all of it all really didn't come until it started coming out one episode at a time. I started noticing people are noticing me and I'm like, how do they even know me? But you don't really know what it's going to do. It's MTV and next thing you know, people started noticing who we were when we walked around. People who knew us before, you just knew us because we were Run's kids, but not to this degree.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:07)
So now you were known as Run's daughter and now you're starting to have celebrity on your own, right? But you didn't get to pick up any friends because this happened after you had left high school. Do you think it would have been different had you had this start in high school? Do you get, cause you strike me as a person like, if you're in my circle, you're in my circle. If you're not in my circle, you're not about to get in my circle.
Now that my circle is already drawn.

**Angela Simmons** (3:32)
I'm kind of like that. I mean, I just like good people, good individuals and most of the friends and people I have around me, I've had them my whole life or like for a very, very long time, but I'm not sure what it would have changed. I guess people would have known me more than what they did at the time. But I'm happy it happened when it did, because I got to really live out like my childhood and not be on TV. I mean, I was mature enough to handle it at that point.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:59)
Were you popular in school?

**Angela Simmons** (4:01)
I think so. I feel like if people in different high school, yeah, people knew me and then I went to a really small school elementary wise. So there's 200 kids from K through 8

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:12)
Damn.