Darryl McDaniels , ladies and gentlemen.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : This speech is my recital.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Hello, everybody.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Of course.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Yes, yes.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : How did we get there?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : I saw the Empire State Building.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : That's corny.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Keith Haring!
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Real graffiti writers.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : And the '80s was the best period of all.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Cause he was like this is the comic book guy, right?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Ding.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : With A-Trak.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : And those things are cool.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Excuse me?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Oh, yeah.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : It's a "Wolverine."
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Where you from?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : It would be wise to.
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
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : On a comic book cover.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Yeah, yeah.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Yeah, yeah, yeah, writers, directors.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Come on up here and give me some.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : That was awesome.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Run DMC, what's the big fucking deal?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : You have to stand on your head or something.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : And spoken word.
Do it as little Darryl McDaniels , the kid who loved comic books first.
Kyle McDaniel .
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Thank you.
But now DMC stands for something beyond Darryl McDaniels , beyond the devastating mic controller.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Huh?
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Yeah.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : I can't tell.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : OK.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : You know, it's funny.
Kyle McDaniel did an amazing job.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Everybody always say that.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : He said or without the record business, there was always going to be hip hop.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : We sat there for two hours and talked about comic books.
And it shouldn't be that you take this idea that somebody else-- DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : DC or Marvel.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Exactly.
We have microphones in both the aisles if you guys-- DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Superman and Batman were having a fight.
And it was like, 65,000-- DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Yeah, yeah, and we'd tell people, hold your Adidas up and the whole concept held up Adidas.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : This is awesome.
Sal Buscema, who's a comic artist who we both grew up on-- DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Legend.
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : Remember "The Defenders."
DARRYL "DMC" MCDANIELS : All of them.