“My Band” by D12

D12 opened the D12 World campaign in March 2004 with "My Band", the lead single from the hip-hop crew's second album. Eminem casts himself as the frontman of a make-believe band called D12 while everyone else stews on the sidelines, jealous and disrespected: the girls only come around because he's in it, and none of them could tell you the band's name. His verse plays the pampered star to the hilt, fielding advances from fans offstage and announcing Jessica Alba as his bride-to-be until Kuniva comes at him with a knife.

Eminem produced it and mixed it with Steve King, who plays bass and guitar, while Luis Resto added keyboards and extra production. It topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand and Norway, reached two in the UK and six in the US, and was the first song to top New Zealand's newly revamped singles chart.

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