DMC WORKING ON NEW DOCUMENTARY

DMC working on documentary on the foster care system……

DMC’s journey to find his birth mother, My Adoption Journey, which aired as part of VH1’s Rock Docs series was nominated for an Emmy for Outsanding Arts & Culture Programming. The rapper is working on a new documentary titled, DMC: Deliver My Children, which will attempt to shed light on the illsof the foster care system. The rapper said, “The foster care system is totally obsolete. Kids are being killed, abused and even experimented on. I was fortunate. I got adopted. There’s a half a million kids here every year that don’t get adopted.”

DMC added, “At age 18, they are aged out of the system, they give them $5 and a bag of lunch and say go live your life. Most of these kids end up in trouble, jail, or a mental institution. All the kids in the group homes, juvenile detention centers and over half of the people in prison overall come from the foster care system.”

“And I learned through music if I speak about it, if I speak about it….I was suicidal too so I needed an outlet. But at the time I found out I was adopted I didn’t know nobody adopted. Even when JMJ was alive, I was like, ‘I’m adopted.’ They was like, ‘So what,’ cause they can’t relate to that. ‘You have Byford and Pam.’ I was like, ‘I know that but do you know this is ground breaking. I’m 35 years-old. This is something….’ ‘Don’t worry about it. You DMC, you should be happy.’ I got really depressed. But I said let me write a record cause there’s a kid somewhere in my position. Thinking he’s alone, ‘I’m adopted. I’m in a foster home. I’m in a group home or I’m out in the street.'”

In related news, DMC is also organizing a celebrity rally for adoption rights at the White House in Washington, DC, in conjunction with The Throw Away Kids Foundation.

The rapper’s committment to the cause was born out of the difficult time he had after finding out at the age of 35 that he was adopted. DMC explained,