A Seattle rapper is accused of declaring himself a warlord — and acting as the sheriff of city’s leaderless, cop-free protest zone dubbed the CHAZ.

Raz Simone was caught on video allegedly assaulting someone over graffiti in the CHAZ — which stands for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a six-block area set up by protesters this week around Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct.

“We are the police of this community now,” a person on the video posted to Twitter is heard telling the alleged vandal, as Simone tries to intervene. “We are the leaders of this community now.”

The video then shows Simone and the tagger scuffling.

Simone, who’s been reportedly patrolling the CHAZ with an AK-47 and handgun, responded on Twitter saying the men squashed their beef.

“It was great black dialogue and men apologizing to each other, abandoning pride,” he wrote. “We all hugged each other, cried it out and it was beautiful.”

Protesters have identified Simone as one of the leaders in the CHAZ, according to KOMO News. Other news outlets have accused him of turning into a warlord.

In a YouTube video, the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Solomon Samuel Simone, urged other armed protesters to protect the area.

“With your paperwork. I got mine in my pocket,” he tells the crowd outside the boarded up police precinct, referring to Washington’s open-carry law. “I really don’t want that presence at all but just watching someone get shot out here, I was there.”

Simone denied taking charge of the CHAZ on Twitter.

“The President really put a hit on my head. I’m not a Terrorist Warlord,” he wrote, retweeting a post from President Trump that said, “Domestic Terrorist have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW & ORDER!”

“Quit spreading that false narrative,” Simone continued. “The world has NEVER been ready for a strong black man. We have been peaceful and nothing else. If I die don’t let it be in vain.”

Simone has more than 26,000 subscribers on YouTube, which features music videos for his songs like “They Don’t Understand” and “Isn’t Love.”

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