{"id":20743,"date":"2020-03-22T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p087bs5d"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T10:05:00","slug":"new-york-stories-with-joe-pascal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/03\/22\/new-york-stories-with-joe-pascal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Stories with Joe Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"He\u2019s 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 \u201cThey didn\u2019t just change music, they changed everything.\u201d 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 \u2013 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\u2019s other passion is comic books, they fuelled his imagination and education and ultimately gave him the superpower he needed to get up on stage.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p087bs5d\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s 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 \u201cThey didn\u2019t just change music, they changed everything.\u201d Presenter Joe Pascal meets the Devastating Mic C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598631,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions\/1598631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}