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| | DMC older, wiser with solo debut |
 | | He wasn`t born Darryl McDaniels ('son of Byford, brother of Al'), but Darryl Lovelace, and for the five years after he found out, it messed with his head. |
 | | He suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a vocal disorder that lends his speaking voice an often-fragile tremble, a sadly ironic diagnosis for a man whose thunderstorm of a voice is synonymous with the birth of rap (on record and without help, it`s tough to identify the voice on the mike as his). |
 | | When he first sat down to write his 'Checks,' McDaniels, then 35, found himself hung up on the fact that he was playing what`s generally considered a young man`s game. |
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