Darryl McDaniels, aka DMC of Run-DMC, has asked US legislators to give adoptees the right to access their birth records. McDaniels, who learned he'd been adopted at the age of 35, addressed senators in the New Jersey Statehouse last week, saying: "This is really about identity and truth of a human being's existence. We never start a book from Chapter 1, as adoptees we live our lives from Chapter 2".
The rap star, who won an Emmy for a documentary about his own experience of adoption, continued: "This isn't about us going back to make the birth mother's life hectic. I believe there should be a right. That is somebody's identity, you all, somebody's identity".