Purple Pills

"Purple Pills"
Single by D12
from the album Devil's Night
Released January 8, 2001
Format CD single, Casette
Recorded 54 Sound and The Lodge
Genre Hip hop
Length

4:19 ("Purple Hills")

5:04 ("Purple Pills")
Label Shady / Interscope
Producer Eminem
Certification Gold (ARIA)
Silver (BPI)
D12 singles chronology
"Shit on You"
(2000)		 "Purple Pills"
(2001)		 "Fight Music"
(2001)

"Purple Pills", also known as the censored version, "Purple Hills", is a hip hop single by D12 from their 2001 debut album Devil's Night. It achieved notable success, reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Background

The song contains many references to drug use, with "purple pills," "golden seals," and "Mushroom Mountain" being examples of recreational drug use. The song was deemed inappropriate for play on many radio stations, and a radio edit was made removing most drug and sex references. The edit was called "Purple Hills", and lines such as "I've been to mushroom mountain" were altered to things such as "I've climbed the highest mountain," and "I take a couple uppers" was changed to "I've been so many places." The edit was the most-played version on Top 40 radio, but a number of underground radio stations played the unedited single. The clean version mutes or replaces references of drugs, profanities, and sexual references. Most of Bizarre's verse is entirely changed because of the excessive sexual and drug content in it that rendered muting it pointless. The music video is in Purple Hills form.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Purple Pills"   D. Porter, D. Holton, J. Bass, M. Mathers, O. Moore, R. Johnson, V. Carlisle Eminem 5:05
2. "Shit On You"   M. Mathers, R. Johnson, V. Carlisle, O. Moore, D. Porter DJ Head 5:30
3. "That's How"   V. Carlisle, D. Holton, R. Johnson, M. Mathers, O. Moore, D. Porter, J. Bass Denaun Porter 4:48
4. "Purple Hills - Video"   D. Porter, D. Holton, J. Bass, M. Mathers, O. Moore, R. Johnson, V. Carlisle Eminem 4:29

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[1] 3
Austrian Singles Chart[1] 41
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[1] 8
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[1] 22
Finnish Singles Chart[1] 10
Eurochart Hot 100[2] 7
German Singles Chart 39
Irish Singles Chart[3] 2
Netherlands Singles Chart[1] 8
New Zealand Singles Chart[1] 17
Norway Singles Chart[1] 2
Swedish Singles Chart[1] 5
Swiss Singles Chart[1] 25
UK Singles Chart[4] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] 19
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[5] 21
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks[5] 1

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Purple Pills", in various singles charts [1]
  2. ^ "Eurochart". http://top40-charts.com/chart.php?cid=31&date=2001-07-29. 
  3. ^ "D12's Irish chart". http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement. 
  4. ^ "Chart Stats D12". http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=81. 
  5. ^ a b c "D12". http://www.allmusic.com/artist/d12-p457773/charts-awards/billboard-singles. 

External links

D12
Bizarre · Eminem · Fuzz Scoota · Kuniva · Mr. Porter · Swifty McVay
Bugz · Proof
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
"Shit on You" · "Purple Pills" · "Fight Music" · "My Band" · "How Come"
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