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Toure Show

DMC—I Was Suicidal

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

DMC is one third of Run-DMC the most important group in hiphop history. Run-DMC were rap’s first superstars and their success helped the genre become a global phenomenon. But through all the triumphs, DMC was unhappy. He was an alcoholic who became depressed and then suicidal. He thought about how to kill himself all the time. Then he found out he was adopted. This is an amazingly honest life story. Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Toure Show Episode 90: I Was Suicidal Original Air Date: Sept. 11, 2019 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.0

Issemyake. And I was on a ledge about the jump. We was doing some promotion for down with the

0:50.6

King album I believe it was in Europe somewhere. We had to do a photo shoot. We finished the photo shoot. We go back down in our rooms and Eric goes to everybody.

0:59.6

Yo, be in the lobby 630 for sound check. He was a routine, you know what I'm saying with it's like one o'clock now so that's all free time

1:06.3

I wait till everybody going in the room I look at the hallway nobody's there because I know if I don't do it now, they're going to come lock the door so nobody goes to the roof.

1:17.0

Because the door was open.

1:18.0

So I'll run back up to the roof and I get up on the ledge.

1:22.0

I'm on the ledge about to jump and a couple of things went on to me that said okay the reason why I shouldn't jump is if I jump and don't die, this shit's gonna hurt.

1:33.0

Right. But if I don't jump, this feeling

1:37.0

that doesn't hurt like it hurt if I break my back,

1:41.0

it's way worse than any physical pain.

1:43.0

Run DMC is one of the greatest rap groups of all time,

1:48.0

definitely one of the most important.

1:50.0

They're hip-hop's first superstars.

1:52.0

But DMC, despite all the success and all the money, for many years

1:56.8

he was a mess. He was an alcoholic. He was depressed and he was suicidal. Today, thanks to therapy and reflection, he's sober and happy to be alive, but we're going to dig into his difficult years in this episode and see how he dealt with hard times.

2:12.0

It's DMC on Tauration. see how he dealt with hard times.

2:12.8

It's DMC on Torrey Show.

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