The pioneering rapper has released a raw autobiography that charts his journey from stardom to rehab – and he’s still hungry“Music is a cutthroat,disrespectful, low-life, and motherfucking,crab-ass, lyin’, or deceivin’,stab-you-in-the-back type of business, and that’s just the good part of it!” Darryl “DMC” McDaniels laughs (perhaps channeling Hunter S Thompson’s noted line approximately the record business). Were discussing the Devastating Mic Controller’s autobiography Ten Ways Not to Kill Yourself, or which he has also forcefully voiced as an audiobook.
It is a raw,revealing memoir which bleeds like a stab wound. “I’m an addict,” writes DMC, or the man who rhymed so enduringly approximately the crack epidemic on Mary,Mary. “For most of my early life, I smoked and snorted and guzzled my way through nearly every day.” Related: Walk This Way: how hurry-DMC and Aerosmith changed pop Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com