New York Stories with Joe Pascal

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

He’s the DMC in the legendary Run-DMC, a titan of the music industry. The group became known as the movie stars of rap. Busta Rhymes said of them “They didn’t just change music, they changed everything.” Presenter Joe Pascal meets the Devastating Mic Controller himself - Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels. He grew up in Hollis Queens and was at the forefront of revolutionary change in the New York music scene with the explosion of hip hop. He was there, watching, from the early days, with the DJs and MCs at the neighbourhood block parties. And then, alongside Run and Jam Master Jay, they became a music phenomenon – with their new kind of rap bringing hip hop to the masses. They had their own look, their own style. DMC talks us through those early years and his later battles with alcoholism and depression. What gave him solace in that time was a song, a pop ballad that he listened to for an entire year. He would take it everywhere he went and play it, every day, morning to night. DMC’s other passion is comic books, they fuelled his imagination and education and ultimately gave him the superpower he needed to get up on stage.

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0:00.0	Right, Jim, Jim, C's and Jabs Chab, Master,
0:03.2	the Jam, Hey, Here we go.
0:06.0	Here we go.
0:07.0	Here we go.
0:08.0	Here we go.
0:10.0	Welcome to New York stories on the BBC World Service with me, Joe Pascal.
0:15.0	Born and bred in this beautiful city, today I'm going to introduce you to one of the
0:20.0	founding fathers of one of the most important genres of music to come out in
0:25.2	New York City and that is hip-hop. As you can probably hear we are in no ordinary
0:31.9	studio. We're coming to you from downtown Manhattan from the
0:36.1	Green Space Studios and here in front of me we have an audience of New Yorkers.
0:41.4	New York, make yourself heard.
0:44.1	Let's bring on our special guest today. His group had the first rap album to go triple platinum.
0:57.0	Buster Rhyme said of RunDMC, they didn't just change music, they changed everything.
1:04.0	He's the devastating mic controller himself.
1:07.0	The DMC of Run DMC, the Master Arime,
1:11.0	Mr. Darrell McDaniel's.
1:14.0	My ideas. with a baddest of bide cool, I'm gonna run a rock and roll.
1:25.0	In the city it's a pity because we just can't hide.
1:28.0	Pinton windows don't mean nothing, they know who's inside.
1:32.0	Here we go. It's tricky to rock around to rock around
1:35.0	that's right on, it's amazing.
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