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Released
  
April 27, 2004

Length
  
77:49

Artist
  
Label
  
Shady Records

Recorded
  
2003–04

Language
  
English

Release date
  
27 April 2004

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Producer
  
Eminem (exec.)Mr. Porter, Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo, Kanye West, Hi-Tek, Red Spyda, Trackboyz, Witt & Pep, Luis Resto

Genres
  
Hip hop music, Gangsta rap, Hardcore hip hop, Horrorcore

Nominations
  
Echo Award for Best Hip Hop/Urban Artist (International)

Similar
  
D12 albums, Hip hop music albums

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D12 World is the second studio album by Detroit hip hop group D12, released on April 27, 2004. The album sold 544,000 copies in its first week on the U.S. Billboard 200. The album is the last D12 album to feature Proof before his death in 2006, and the second D12 album to feature "Bugz" on a track.

Contents

D12 loyalty featuring obie trice


Background

In memory of Bugz, who was killed prior to a concert on May 21, 1999, the group recorded the track "Good Die Young" in memory of him. The album also includes a song entitled "Bugz '97", which is a 1997 recording of Bugz, originally taken from the song "Desperados". The band was often overshadowed by Eminem's massive success, and as such, the band toured without him for promotion of the album (but the album still reached the top of the US Billboard chart). At the time, Eminem was busy recording Encore. Although shadowed by Eminem's success, members Bizarre and Proof managed to prevail with mildly successful solo careers following D12 World, with the releases of Hannicap Circus and Searching for Jerry Garcia, respectively, in 2005. Before the album's release, "6 in the Morning" was featured on Eminem's 2003 mixtape Straight from the Lab and was entitled "Come On In".

Reception

Upon release, D12 World received mixed to positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 58, based on 13 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

D12 World debuted at the top of the US, UK, Irish, Canadian, Australian and NZ albums charts. It debuted at number 2 in Germany and also in the top 5 in Switzerland and Norway. It debuted in the top 10 in Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It sold over 500,000 records in its first week of release in the United States alone. "My Band", the first single, was also successful, reaching number one in Australia and on the US rhythmic top 40, the top 5 in the UK and Germany and top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album has sold 313,028 copies in the UK as of November 2013.

Track listing

Notes

  • The skit "Bugz" is taken from the song "Desperados", performed by Eminem, Proof, Bugz & The Almighty Dreadknaughts.
  • The song "Just Like U" does not appear on the clean version of the album.
  • The song "Barbershop" can be found on the Barbershop 2: Back in Business soundtrack.
  • The song "Just Like U" contains a sample from "Sir Galahad" by Rick Wakeman.
  • The clean version of the album allows "ass" to be uncensored but few uses of the word "hell", alcohol use, drugs, and violence are edited out.
  • The song "Get My Gun" is an unlockable song in the 2006 open-world game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
  • Personnel

  • B-Real – Guest Appearance
  • Steve Baughman – Mixing
  • Rondell Beene – Skit
  • Bizarre – Skit
  • Joe Borges – Assistant
  • Bugz – Skit
  • Tony Campana – Engineer
  • Richard Castro – Skit
  • Larry Chatman – Project Coordinator
  • Mike "Chav" Chavarria – Engineer
  • D12 – Group
  • Dr. Dre – Producer, Mixing
  • Mike Elizondo – Keyboards
  • Eminem – Producer, Executive Producer, Mixing, Skit
  • Essman – Producer
  • 50 Cent – Skit
  • Brian "Big Bass" Gardener – Mastering
  • Marcus Heisser – A&R
  • Richard Hunt – Engineer
  • Steven King – Bass, Guitar, Engineer, Mixing, Skit
  • Kuniva – Skit
  • Marc Labelle – A&R
  • Tracy McNew – A&R
  • Riggs Morales – A&R
  • Night and Day – Producer
  • Red Spyda – Keyboards, Producer
  • Luis Resto – Keyboards, Producer
  • Michael Strange – Engineer
  • Obie Trice – Guest Appearance
  • Sacha Waldman – Photography
  • Young Zee – Skit
  • Kanye West – Producer
  • Paul Williams - Songwriter
  • J.R. Rotem - Songwriter
  • Songs

    1Git Up4:03
    2Loyalty5:55
    3Just Like U3:32

    References

    D12 World Wikipedia


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