D12 World

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D12 World
Studio album by D12
Released	April 27, 2004
Recorded	N/A
Genre	Hip hop
Length	77:52
Label	Shady/Interscope
Producer(s)	Eminem, Denaun Porter, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Hi-Tek, Red Spyda
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
D12 chronology
Devil's Night (2001)	D12 World (2004)	The Ambition (TBA)

D12 World is the 2004 album by Detroit rap crew D12 which reached the top of the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic on its release on April 27, 2004.

Contents 1 Making of the album 2 Chart Success 3 US Sales 4 Track listing 5 External links

[edit] Making of the album

D12 member Eminem was the executive producer of the album recruiting Dr. Dre and Kanye West to produce tracks on the album as well as producing tracks himself. The album also features guest appearances by Obie Trice and B-Real. The album's first single "My Band" is a humorous take on the widespread, if incorrect, view that the band is solely a creation of Eminem rather than a rap crew that has been together since 1990. The tracks "Good Die Young" and "Bugz 97" on D12 World are also in the memory of Bugz, a former member shot in 1999. The album features a great deal of adult content and the Bizarre track "Just Like U" had to be left off the edited version of the album.

The image of the hand clutching the Earth is a parody of the anti-Semitic book, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

[edit] Chart Success

D12 World debuted at the top of the US, UK and Australian album charts and number 2 in Germany, selling over half a million records in its first week of release in the US alone. "My Band", the first single, also has been successful reaching number one in Australia and the US rhythmic top 40, top 5 in the UK and Germany and top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[edit] US Sales

1. Week 1: 551,920 (#1 on Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart)
2. Week 2: 200,379 (#2 on Top 200)
3. Week 3: 116,572 (#4 on Top 200)
4. Week 4: 93,492 (#6 on Top 200)
5. Week 5: 70,243 (#8 on Top 200)
6. Week 6: 66,967 (#8 on Top 200)
7. Week 7: 58,905 (#7 On Top 200)
8. Week 8: 68,507 (#7 on Top 200)
9. Week 9: 63,528 (#9 on Top 200)
10. Week 10: 66,439 (#12 on Top 200)
11. Week 11: 59,838 (#11 on Top 200)
12. Week 12: 58,605 (#14 on Top 200)
13. Week 13: 51,323 (#15 on Top 200)
14. Week 14: 40,884 (#22 on Top 200)
15. Week 15: 37,182 (#21 on Top 200)

To date, it has sold about 2 million copies.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Git Up" (Produced by Eminem) – 4:03
2. "Loyalty" (featuring Obie Trice) (Produced by Eminem) – 5:54
3. "Just Like U" (Produced by Hi-Tek) – 3:32
4. "I'll Be Damned" (Produced by Denaun Porter) – 5:32
5. "Dude (Skit)" – 1:14
6. "My Band" (Produced by Eminem) – 4:58
7. "U R The One" (Produced by Denaun Porter) – 4:19
8. "Six in the Morning" (Produced by Eminem) – 4:38
9. "How Come" (Produced by Witt & Pep) – 4:09
10. "Leave Dat Boy Alone" (Produced by Red Spyda) – 5:23
11. "Get My Gun" (Produced by Eminem) – 4:34
12. "Bizarre (Skit)" – 1:22
13. "Bitch" (Produced by Eminem) – 4:57
14. "Steve's Coffee House (Skit)" – 0:51
15. "D-12 World" (Produced by Kanye West) – 3:10
16. "40 Oz." (Produced by Trackboyz) – 4:02
17. "Commercial Break" (Produced by Eminem) – 1:12
18. "American Psycho II" (featuring B-Real from Cypress Hill) (Produced by Dr. Dre & Mike Elizondo) – 3:44
19. "Bugz '97 (Skit)" – 1:05
20. "Good Die Young" (Produced by Denaun Porter) – 5:56
21. "Keep Talkin'" (Bonus track) (Produced by Night & Day) – 4:28

[edit] External links

• All Music Guide D12 World review