Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Finds Therapy More Helpful Than Olde English 800

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Run-DMC was about as successful as recording artists could be. Packed concerts, multi-platinum selling albums, MTV, fame, fortune, the whole thing. But Darryl McDaniels, the DMC of the group's name, was a mess. He was drinking, using drugs, and not dealing with mental health issues that he thinks had plagued him since birth. With the help of some tough love therapy in a rehab facility he was able to face his problems and get to the bottom of what was really going on. Hear about his introverted childhood, his meteoric rise, and how he chose to listen to one song for a year instead of killing himself.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a story about fame, isolation, depression, alcohol, wanting to die and wanting to live.
0:07.8	Do I call you dear? Do I call you Darryl? What's best?
0:10.8	You could call me Darryl, you could call me D, you could call me Darryl, Mac, you could call me DMC.
0:16.6	Whatever you want to call me.
0:18.2	I'm so glad you answered that way, that was my secret hope.
0:30.0	It's the hilarious world of depression, I'm John Moe. My guest on this episode is a recovering alcoholic. He's dealt with depression and anxiety. He's been suicidal.
0:52.0	And he's part of one of the most successful and influential hip-hop groups of all time.
0:59.0	Yo, what's up? This is DMC in the place to be coming at you from quad studios in the NYC New York City, baby.
1:09.0	Darryl McDaniels is the DMC in Run DMC. D and Joseph Run Simmons rapping, Jam Master J on the Turntables.
1:19.0	They started in Queens in 1983 and went on to make platinum records, cover of Rolling Stone, played live aid. They're in the rock and roll hall of fame.
1:28.0	Their sound wasn't flashy, sparse, driving beats, powerful, literate vocals with the two rappers overlapping relentlessly.
1:42.0	Sounded a lot like hard rock.
1:49.0	The video for their collaboration with Aerosmith features a literal wall between rock and rap being smashed through.
2:04.0	They were even heavy when rapping about shoes.
2:12.0	Or Christmas.
2:20.0	Or about people who just talk to.
2:28.0	But being rich in famous is not a prevention or cure for mental health problems.
2:33.0	And looking and sounding powerful is not a guarantee that someone feels that way.
2:37.0	Before he was DMC, he was a quiet kid named Darryl in a middle class section of Queens, raised by Biford and Bannemick Daniels.
2:46.0	Young Darryl was a good student, liked music, but loved comic books.
2:51.0	Saw himself in them.
2:53.0	You went think Peter Parker Spider-Man.
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