He may be considered rap royalty among music fans, but DMC is humbled in knowing how much of a role his family has played in making him who he is today. 
Particularly his adopted father, Byford McDaniels, the man who instilled characteristics such as dedication, success and honesty in the Run-DMC rapper, while raising him as a kid.
“First of all, he worked everyday to send me to school. He worked everyday to pay to send me to every school that I was in to. And I wasn’t even his. But I was his,”
DMC told. “He would take us on vacation, drive us to Canada. He would educate me. He would inform me.
He would discipline me. He would take me to the park. He put me on the football team. He bought me my mixer and turntables.” Those values were front and center on Friday (June 19) as DMC participated in President Obama’s national day of conversation about fatherhood and personal responsibility.
