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DMC Denies Presidential Run: 'I Would Never Run For President'

Published Wed, August 30, 2023 at 11:30 AM EDT

DMC denies the Outkick report that he announced plans to run for President at Lionel Messi's Major League Soccer debut over the weekend (8/26).

DMC stressed to reporters that sporting events, concerts and museum's unite people and that he was "running for President starting today." DMC told All HipHop that his words were taken out of context.

“That’s so funny," he said. "That’s why media today is a joke. They just run with anything before even confirming it. I would never run for president. I get more done as a representative of all people. The point I was trying to make is the arts succeed where politics and religion fail."

"The real world is when people who are from different races and cultures can come together at concerts, museums, plays, sporting events, restaurants and comic cons. This shows the unique diverse but universally connected world we live in. Politics and religion are used divisively, but events with art and performance bring us together."

- DMC

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Run-DMC played what was advertised as their last concerts at Yankee Stadium and the Rock The Bells Festival earlier this month. Additionally, he shared an exclusive new single with Rock The Bells on Hip-Hop's birthday, Aug. 11, called "Kingdom Come."

“[Jam Master] Jay would say, ‘We just getting started,’” he told Rock The Bells. “‘Let’s have some more fun. Tell the soundman to turn up the music.’ He would say people need to get back to dancing—stop standing around looking at and holding the goddamn phones. After all, 50 isn’t old—it’s experienced.”