Even at its most sinister, its wackiest, or both, D12 Worldis overflowing with personality and authenticity. D12’s verses distinguished them not just from the mainstream, but from each other. Rappers often talk about their music feeling like a movie, and then they hardly have any characters. Compared to the blockbuster boasts of their peers, the Dirty Dozen’s raps felt like slice-of-life tales from folk heroes. He was so hot that a posse cut by a group of hardcore rappers was as in-demand for high school kids as one of Usher’s biggest songs of all time.Įven now, as rap has entered a previously-unknown phase of pop dominance, D12’s success was uncanny.
Two years after The Eminem Show, Marshall Mathers was still the most dangerous MC on earth. It was still doing single-song giveaways via Pepsi caps. iTunes was less than a year old and it wasn’t exactly the industry’s premiere platform for debuting new music. Both were radio rips I’d gotten off Kazaa. In the spring of 2004, the hottest commodity in my high school journalism class was a CD-R that had Usher’s “Yeah” back-to-back with D12’s “My Band.” Just those songs a bunch of times.
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