- While in Minor Threat, he wrote the song "Straight Edge" after one of his best friends, a drug addict, died as he overdosed on heroin. In swearing off drugs, alcohol, smoking, and promiscuous sex, McKaye unintentionally invented a life-style still strictly led by thousands of people to this day.
- He was the front man of the seminal Washington D.C. hardcore punk band Minor Threat, which disbanded in 1983.
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