![]() Rappers often talk about their music feeling like a movie, and then they hardly have any characters. Compared to the blockbuster boasts of their peers, the Dirty Dozen’s raps felt like slice-of-life tales from folk heroes. ![]() He was so hot that a posse cut by a group of hardcore rappers was as in-demand for high school kids as one of Usher’s biggest songs of all time.Įven now, as rap has entered a previously-unknown phase of pop dominance, D12’s success was uncanny. Two years after The Eminem Show, Marshall Mathers was still the most dangerous MC on earth. It was still doing single-song giveaways via Pepsi caps. iTunes was less than a year old and it wasn’t exactly the industry’s premiere platform for debuting new music. Both were radio rips I’d gotten off Kazaa. ![]() In the spring of 2004, the hottest commodity in my high school journalism class was a CD-R that had Usher’s “Yeah” back-to-back with D12’s “My Band.” Just those songs a bunch of times. ![]()
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