D12 World by D12

D12 World, the second album from Detroit's Dirty Dozen, hit in 2004 on Shady and Interscope, the follow-up to Devil's Night. Its opening week on the Billboard 200 moved 544,000 copies, with Eminem, the crew's de facto leader, as the obvious draw. Around him the lineup that broke through is all present: Proof, Bizarre, Kuniva, Swifty McVay and Mr. Porter, who also produced the record.

The sound is hardcore hip-hop with a horrorcore sneer, a crowd of voices elbowing each other off the mic, and "My Band" was the hit single. It went double platinum, and it has a grim footnote: it was the last D12 release with Proof, who died in 2006, and the last album with Eminem as a member before he walked away in 2018.

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