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What Is Darryl McDaniels' Net Worth

Darryl McDaniels (also known as "DMC") is an American rapper and author who has a net worth of $40 million. McDaniels is a founding member of the legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C., along withJoseph "Run" SimmonsandJason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell. Run-D.M.C. released seven studio albums between 1984 and 2001, including the 3× Platinum "Raising Hell" (1986) and the Platinum "King of Rock" (1985) and "Tougher Than Leather" (1988).

Darryl has also released the solo album "Checks Thugs and Rock n Roll" (2006) and the "Back from the Dead" EP (2017). He has appeared in the films "Krush Groove" (1985), "Who's the Man?" (1993), and "Roll Bounce" (2005) and the video games "The Warriors" (2005) and "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" (2008). McDaniels has published the books "King of Rock: Respect, Responsibility, and My Life with Run-DMC" (2001) and "Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir" (2016), and he launched the publishing imprint Darryl Makes Comics in 2014. Run-D.M.C. was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009.

Early Life

Darryl McDaniels was born Darryl Matthews McDaniels on May 31, 1964, in Harlem, New York. Darryl was adopted by Byford and Banna McDaniels when he was 3 months old, and he grew up in a Catholic household in Hollis, Queens. In 1978, McDaniels taught himself to DJ after buying a turntables and a mixer with his older brother, Alford, and he began using the name "Grandmaster Get High." Darryl attended Manhattan's Rice High School and Queens' St. John's University. When McDaniels started writing his autobiography, Banna and Byford revealed that they were not his biological parents and that his birth mother was a woman named Bernada Lovelace. Darryl had always believed that he had been born in Hollis, but he learned that he had actually been born in Harlem. He decided to look for his birth mother and began working on the 2006 documentary "DMC: My Adoption Journey" with VH1. Since he didn't have access to New York's closed birth records, he hired an investigator, who found McDaniels' birth mother within six weeks. Darryl met his birth mother, Berncenia, who had been a "Harlem teen mom," and she told him, "I had always thought about you." In June 2021, McDaniels finally got his birth certificate, thanks to a reversal in the law that kept New York pre-adoption records private.

Career

McDaniels formed Run-D.M.C. with his friend Joseph "Run" Simmons in 1983, and DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell soon joined the group. They released their self-titled debut album on March 27, 1984, and it was certified Gold and reached #14 on the "Billboard" Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Their follow-up, 1985's "King of Rock," went Platinum, and their third album, 1986's 3x Platinum "Raising Hell," hit #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #3 on the "Billboard" 200 chart. In 1986, Run-D.M.C. released a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way," featuring vocals bySteven TylerandJoe Perryon guitar, and it went Platinum and reached #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. Another single from "Raising Hell," "It's Tricky," was certified 2x Platinum. Around this time, Darryl was drinking heavily, sometimes finishing off eight 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor in a single day, and he was arrested twice on charges of D.U.I. and public intoxication. In 1987, the group recorded the song "Christmas in Hollis" for the benefit album "A Very Special Christmas." They released their fourth studio album, "Tougher Than Leather," in 1988, and it reached #9 on the "Billboard" 200 chart and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

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