Many South Africans were shocked to discover that Sim Dope is an existing human being that slain rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes named a song after. Sim Dope, real name Simphiwe was the rapper’s best friend and is also the son of business tycoon Robert Gumede.
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Super Mega’s friend Simphiwe who has been friends with him since the age of eleven came to honour the late rapper and revealed what a great soul he was.
He revealed how the name Sim Dope came up, according to him he was just answering to his real name Simphiwe but his late friend AKA told him the name wasn’t dangerous enough so told him to change his Facebook profile name to the dangerous Sim Dope.