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Proof (D12)

“I Still Love H.E.R.” Detroit podcast with Black Milk interview

I Still Love H.E.R. has done a Detroit only podcast. Detroit Deli (Episode 6) also features an interview with Black Milk.

Tracklist:

1. 1st down - No place to go
2. Illa J - Me and my brother
3. Dwele - Keep on
4. Black Milk - Action
5. J.Dilla - Say it!
6. T3 - Yeah
7. J-88 - Get it together (Madlib Remix)
8. Eminem - No Apologies
9. Royce 5’9 - Death is certain
10. Jaylib - Mcnasty Filth
11. Phat Kat - Danger
12. Guilty Simpson - Man’s world
13. Blackreign & Ohkang - Manhood (self-made) myspace.com/blackreignandohkang
14. Black Milk - Sound the alarm
15. Proof - Broken
16. Lawless Element - Love
17. Slum Village - Reunion
18. Platinum Pied Pipers - 50 ways to leave your lover

Download the podcast here.

2007 08 31

Eminem
Royce Da 5'9"
Slum Village
Proof (D12)
Black Milk
Phat Kat, Ronnie Cash
Guilty Simpson
T3
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Detroit Hip Hop’s best to be honored tonight

Adam Graham of the Detroit News has written about tonight’s Detroit Hip Hop Awards show.

Killa Kaunn, K-Deezy and Marv Won are among those nominated for this year’s Detroit Hip-Hop Awards, which will be handed out tonight at Plan B in Detroit.

The show, now in its fifth year, aims to celebrate and reward the brightest and best in the Detroit hip-hop community.

“It’s an event that says, ‘We recognize what you’re doing. Maybe others don’t, but we do,’ ” says Mike “Money Mic” Matkin, who along with DJ Knice co-founded the event in 2003.

Awards will be handed out in almost 20 categories, including Song, Album and Video of the Year fields. Performers include Trick Trick, Tone Tone, Guilty Simpson, Black Milk and more. Phat Kat will be receiving the Detroit Recognition Award, a top honor that in previous years has gone to Proof, DJ House Shoes and Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg.

The awards themselves are voted on by visitors at detroithiphop.com, which Matkin runs.

Matkin says he hears from nominees that the recognition from the awards show gives them the fuel they need to pursue their hip-hop dreams on a larger scale.

“It gives them that boost so they can say, ‘I’m doing what I should be doing,’ ” he says. “It’s not a Grammy, but it’s a Detroit Grammy.”

You can reach Adam Graham at (313) 222-2284 or agraham@det news.com.

Detroit Hip-Hop Awards
9 tonight
Plan B
205 W. Congress St., Detroit
Tickets $10
Call (313) 226-1200

2007 08 13

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Proof (D12)
Black Milk
Phat Kat, Ronnie Cash
Guilty Simpson
Trick Trick
Detroit Hip Hop Scene
DJ House Shoes
K-deezy
Tone Tone
Marvwon

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Proof tribute from QD3’s “Beef IV”

This is an excerpt from the latest in QD3’s Beef series.

Tribute to Proof, from Beef IV.

Featuring commentary from 1st Born, Trick Trick, Obie Trice, T3 and several others.

2007 07 13

Artists and Personalities
Obie Trice
Slum Village
Proof (D12)
Audio
Trick Trick

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Denaun Porter on beatmaking, D12, Proof and Dilla

Denaun Porter

Two recent Denaun Porter features: here at Allhiphop and here at The Michigan Citizen.

Allhiphop asks Porter about his difficult 2006.

AllHipHop.com: 2006 was a rough year for Detroit Hiphop. Within two months of each other, both J Dilla and Proof passed away. You worked closely with both of them, how has that affected you personally?

Mr. Porter: You gotta understand, that’s the reason that I got into the game. Proof introduced me to J Dilla. I introduced J Dilla to Dre, and just having that feeling of being able to have Dre, J Dilla, and myself in the same room, both of my teachers, was the greatest feeling on Earth. And plus, this dude [J. Dilla] allowed me to come over his house late night when he was doing sessions with Pete Rock. And Proof, me and Proof, we had the relationship where I didn’t know how proud of me he was until I he was gone. Me and him would fight. We’re one in the same, I feel like, because he taught me so much about just being able to stand on my own, and not wait on one person to do anything. That’s why I’m kind of like out ahead and not waiting on Eminem to do anything, because he told me don’t do that, that’s not the move. He helped create who I am, and J Dilla helped create who I am. I got Guilty Simpson, who me and J Dilla was gon’ do his project together. That was the last artist he planned on working with, as far as his own artists. And now that I have to finish that record, it’s tough, every time I hear a song that J Dilla did. That whole year was the worst year of my life. They’re the reason that I’m in the game, because if Proof never introduced me to Jay Dee, I never would have got that serious about producing.

Porter also reiterates the extent of disintegration in D12 in the Allhiphop interview (see related posts).

2007 07 11

News item
Jay Dee aka J-Dilla
Proof (D12)
D12
Denaun Porter / Kon Artis

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