

Check it for his raps and the excellent "My Band," but leave your taste and morality at home. Their debut - and there's a dry spell in the middle - but since Eminem spends a lot of time in the background it does do a better job of developing the careers of Swift, Proof, and mostly Bizarre. The album feels more slapped together than

That's hard to relate to unless you have a beef with Benzino yourself, but fans who look at D12 albums as updates on the soap opera that is Eminem'sĬareer should eat it up. His raps areĬoncerned with his relationship to D12 and hip-hop in total or they focus on his numerous beefs, most prominent being his one with Benzino. Rules the first two songs, and sporadically pops up throughout theĪlbum, but don't expect any of the usual reflection. Dre is at the helm for the quirky and dark "American Psycho II," killer track number three. His production work on the title track gives the album another highlight, while Dr. The socially conscious hero of the moment, Kanye West. Just as irresponsible, but the group must not be sick enough to repel Hear dis/He probably suffocate me," but it's hardly the only track that Horrific exchange between parent and child that's so disgusting theĮdited version of the album totally drops it. His grotesque masterpiece is "Just Like U," a On earth, smoking Newports, carrying a blowup doll, and owning every ICP might trade in the same sickness as the group, but D12 have better skills and more street cred, and they also have Bizarre. D12 are B-list players in the world of Shadyville (addressed on "My Band" when a fan asks, "Where's Obie and Dre?"), but they're the Three Stooges meets Andrew Dice Clay with that Detroit horror-show edge, which makes them like nothing else in the rap world. On D12 World, an album that's proudly sick in the head. Productions to ever come out of Shadyville.

(or band, or whatever you want to call it) is, and one of the best Is as exciting as "My Band," the catchy explanation of what this group "My Band," the debut single from D12's sophomore album, D12 World, is the group's greatest moment and a great introduction to the way they work.
