Thoughts on a Rapper's life, love, and unlikely redemption.

If you like/love Run DMC you must listen to this.

If you like/love Sarah Mclachlan you must listen to this.

If your life has been touched in any way by adoption, you definitely must listen to this.

Rap star Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels from the groundbreaking rap group Run DMC tells a fascinating, hilarious and touching story about singer/songwriter Sarah Mclachlan saving him from suicide.

While on tour in Europe during a reflective "what's it all about" "why am i here?" period. During this time he began struggling with impulsive and consistent suicidal thoughts. It was at this time heard the song "angle" by McLachlan. Something in him called to him that life was worth living. He ran to the music store and got all things McLachlan. Beginning an obsession with her music that would last for years. He clammed that the songs spoke to him and inspired him to want to live. DMC later found out that he was adopted and the pieces of his forlorn heart began to reshape. McLachlan and DMC ended up making a song together about his journey. He ends his story with McLachlan own revelation as she tells him she was adopted as well.

The whole story with all it's twists and turns is really pretty amazing. The threads of redemption run through the whole of his story. Rappers are modern storytellers, the best on par with homer and Wordsworth. I now have a whole new level of respect for Mr. McDaniels and his hilarious and brutally honest storytelling abilities.

His story reminds me of the truth that the human heart has longings deeper than this reality. We all have orphaned hearts and through a song or story we feel the longing for purpose, for life, for more. Often through other adopted souls we connect to the life we so deeply thirst for and are given grace for the moment.

His story also reminded me of the joy of friendship. Sometimes in times of need we find in others a harmony intangible but unrelenting. Heaven draws us high, away from destructive forces and into the purity of well worn paths. We experience friendship only to find commonalities linking us in places of our deepest and most hidden truths. Truths that define us and remind us why we are alive.

Hear him tell at the moth pod cast from NPR - 01-Darryl-_DMC_-McDaniels_-Angel.mp3

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