Song · D12
“Purple Hills” by D12
Released 2001
“Purple Hills” by D12 appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2001. It was first released in 2001. Its best result is #65 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #452 alternative song of 2001.
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"Purple Hills" is the cleaned-up radio twin of "Purple Pills", the second single D12 pulled from Devil's Night, their 2001 debut album for Shady and Interscope. The album cut was a woozy pharmacy crawl packed with drug and sex talk, and once the crew lined it up as a single, plenty of radio stations wanted no part of it. So most of the drugs and the sex came out and goofy jokes went in, which turns the edit into a comedy record in its own right.
Everybody gets a turn on the mic: Eminem, Bizarre, Proof and Swifty take a verse apiece, and Kuniva and Kon Artis split one between them. It climbed to 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number two in the UK, Ireland and Norway.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 65 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
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