RUN DMC Star Discovers He's Was Adopted

Darryl 'DMC' McDANIELS was shocked to discover the truth about his childhood while attempting to write his autobiography King Of Rock: Respect, Responsibility And My Life With Run-dmc.

He tells MTv.com, "I wanted to start the book, 'Yo, what's up? I'm DMC, you know me, Darryl McDaniels of the groundbreaking rap group Run-DMC. I was born May 31st, 1964,' but that's all I knew, so I called my mom up."

Her subsequent bombshell changed his life - but he says couldn't have wished for a better series of events.

He says, "At first, I was gonna get really sad about it. But then I said, 'If my (birth) mother never gave me up, my mother would have never came and got me, I would have never moved to Hollis (Queens, NY), I would have never met Joe ('RUN' Simmons), we would have never formed Run-DMC and none of this rap s**t would have jumped off.

"I'm gonna write a record that's gonna help kids in the foster homes, or that are lookin' to adopt a kid."

Daniels is turning his search for his birth parents into a Vh1 reality TV show, entitled DMC: My Adoption, which debuts this month