Because then what happened with "3 Mics" is like, I did "3 Mics," and everyone said, were you-- and I was like, no, because now everyone DMs me and says they have mental health issues and I help them treat it.And it's great. 100%.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DMC. My whole presence, my whole delivery, my whole existence, my whole confidence, came from those sacred, beautiful,
I'm a fan girl, ya'll. A DM from him is like a DM from Buddha. Let's get this party started.
videos a few months ago. Um, and they are adding in chat bots to WhatsApp and Instagram DMs and AI filters and all the rest. They're they're very focused on it. and Google, they did the most fundamental overhaul of the search homepage that they've ever done basically since the beginning where they are basically saying AI semantic search
a single guest feature to hit number one on the UK charts in the first week of its release. Fireboy DML's 2021 hit single "Peru" peaked at number one on the official Afrobeats chart in the UK and topped the charts in multiple countries since its release.
And the "DML" is an acronym of my first name, "Damola"-- DML. Fireboy DML. OK. OK, cool. Now we know. OK.
There was a lot of hate mail. My DMs were full of people saying that they were going to come and kill me if they see me on the streets and all that sort of-- just very unkind things, very triggering things that I did not expect and did not think possible.
So the word up, and how the word up is used. Like DMX, "Y'all going to make me lose my mind up in here." See? What's up about it?
You got to do it. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : This speech is my recital. I think it's very vital to rock a rhyme that's right on time.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Hello, everybody. Thank you having us.
I brought my little cheat sheet here. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Of course. All right. You have done it all You're a legendary musician.
But now DMC stands for something beyond Darryl McDaniels, beyond the devastating mic controller. Now DMC stands for Darryl Makes Comics. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Yes, yes.
Now DMC stands for Darryl Makes Comics. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Yes, yes. How did we get there?
How did we get there? DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: How did we get there? What people don't realize is, before music changed my life, before-- first it was rock and roll.
It was in Queens, it was in Manhattan. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: I saw the Empire State Building. The first time I learned about the Roosevelt Island tram was in Spider-Man.
It shouldn't be simply as DMC, the superhero in 2015. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: That's corny. Right, so we were like, well, what if we go back to the height of Run DMC's like, fame and the height of Run DMC,
There was disco. There were B-Boys, graffiti, graffiti all over trains, from artists like Lee Quinones even Basquiat. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Keith Haring! Why don't we create a comic book that kind of reflects this kind of like very rich, raw-- DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Powerful, creative,
And then we will pass the artwork on to all these wildstyle graffiti artists. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Real graffiti writers. I mean, the cover that you see right now on the wall is actually like the vision of four different artists, directed it.
So now, it's only like regular that people looking back to the '90s and '80s here now. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: And the '80s was the best period of all. And old school wasn't a time period.
And we opened the door, there is D with his big Kool-Aid smile on the other side of the door, like mad excited. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Cause he was like this is the comic book guy, right? I had no idea what we were about to talk about, right?
And at that point, I asked Darryl, I said, what would you even call your own publishing company? DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Ding. Darryl Makes Comics. That was easy.
And then like, even a month later, a few weeks later, we meet up because he was shooting a commercial that was produced by A-Trak. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: With A-Trak. Right, right. And he brought together Run and they were doing a song together for the commercial.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: And those things are cool.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Excuse me?
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Oh, yeah.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: It's a "Wolverine." We took all of their stuff and did me as their covers.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Where you from?
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: It would be wise to.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: This the first time, like usually when you do hip hop, when you see hip pop comics or cartoons, they'll have a sneaker
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: On a comic book cover.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Yeah, yeah.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, writers, directors.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Come on up here and give me some.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: That was awesome.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: Run DMC, what's the big fucking deal?
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. But DMC, he was like my superhero.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: You have to stand on your head or something.
The thing about our universe, even though it was F'd up, there was poverty, crime, people killing each other in gang fights and all that, we were good. DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS: And spoken word.
understand? Look, like me, I only released one album with Universal with DMAT and we didn't promote it, just one song. The only thing musical about it was through the internet that I came to Colombia in 2006, and I'm going on and on about how we're going to sing, that we went to San Andrés for the
It was the final shot of a virtual photo walks, a story on virtual photo walks. The DMV needs to know what happened in the intersection when your car got crunched.
I was summer of last year, and I was just chilling at home. And I got a DM from Tara Rubin Casting, and they just asked me to audition. And I was like, yeah.
And that is how I define success today. When I get a DM , when I get an email and someone says, you don't know me, but you wrote about me in your book, and I feel less alone because of it-- and I say, yes, that is what I wanted.
to be who they are and knowing that you're not alone, and that you have people out there, even if you don't have immediate access to them right now. But I'm a DM away. I'm a message away.
trials. We're not there. You can DM me.
And note I didn't text her. I didn't DM her. That's not radical sharing.
So I think the anonymity is a problem, but it also protects our voice. I'd rather a DM .
I mostly DM . When I play, I get so bored with my character that I will either get heroic or stupid about every two weeks
I almost DM 'd you.
I can DM them.
headset which holds the DM we just rented Motorola headsets from like a