You may not want to tell your spouse. You may not want to tell your mother, your brother. Kids may not want to tell their teachers, but maybe you can tell the librarian.
A lot of times, we’re ashamed to tell people that we’re close to. So this is advice to somebody who don’t have a budget [for therapy], who don’t have the finances [for therapy], and just feel like they want to end it all. In the midst of your depression, there’s somebody that you smile at when they walk in the room and you see them. Go up to that person and say, I need to talk to you.
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Ninety-nine times out of 100, this is what’ll happen: Oh my God. I can’t believe you’re telling me that because I feel like that, too.
Curious how Darryl reconciled his relationship with DMC?
I realized DMC cannot work for y’all or creatively for me in life if Darryl isn’t right. So Darryl cannot be ashamed of who he is or what he is, and that’s totally – emotionally, spiritually, physically and artistically.
What had happened was, after raising hell, Darryl was living up to expectations of everybody else… not knowing, Darryl’s not supporting Darryl. There’s no way I’ma go out there and fight crime or even write a rhyme.
I had to sit back and realize that everything that made me who I am comes first. I gotta write the rhyme from – I don’t write a rhyme to be heard, to be known, to sell records, to be famous, to maintain my status. I write my rhyme because I have something to say – not even to the world because I had to get this out of me.
So I reconciled the fact that me being the superhero cannot work if I’m not right with who I am because that is my superpower. It makes me a superhero.
[Applause]
*Q&A edited for length.