D12 Music Group

Rapper Proof fired the first bullet in a Detroit nightclub shootout that ended his life, police said Wednesday. The bullet hit Keith Bender, 35, in the head, critically injuring him early Tuesday at the C.C.C., a bar in a strip of businesses along Eight Mile, the road made famous in Eminem's movie of the same name, "8 Mile." Proof, a member of D12 and whose real name was Deshaun Holton, was taken to a nearby outpatient treatment center by a private car, where he was pronounced dead.

Now this looks like a job for me / So everybody just follow me / Cause we need a little controversy / Cause it feels so empty without me. -- "Without Me" Remember Eminem? "Without Me," his 2002 hit, is appropriate for another spin now as the impish and provocative rapper makes his way back to the pop music stage. Tuesday finds Eminem back on the new-release shelf at record stores, albeit this time sharing disc space with his old Detroit buddies, the rappers in D12.

Ready for more Eminem? On the heels of one of the most turbulent years ever experienced by a pop figure, the Grammy-winning rapper returns to record stores--and, most certainly, the Top 10--next week as a member of the group D12. The looming question: Do Eminem and his mates retreat in "Devil's Night" from the no-holds-barred language that has made him the most controversial--and acclaimed--figure in hard-core rap? Not a chance.

Rap group D12, which includes Eminem, plans to continue recording a new album despite the shooting death of bandmate Proof. "If people think that because he's not here we're not going to keep doing what we're doing, then they're wrong," said D12 member Denaun Porter, who goes by the rap name Kon Artis. Proof, whose real name was DeShaun Holton, was shot to death last month at an after-hours bar in Detroit.

Rap group D12, which includes Eminem, plans to continue recording a new album despite the shooting death of bandmate Proof. "If people think that because he's not here we're not going to keep doing what we're doing, then they're wrong," said D12 member Denaun Porter, who goes by the rap name Kon Artis. Proof, whose real name was DeShaun Holton, was shot to death last month at an after-hours bar in Detroit.

Rapper Proof fired the first bullet in a Detroit nightclub shootout that ended his life, police said Wednesday. The bullet hit Keith Bender, 35, in the head, critically injuring him early Tuesday at the C.C.C., a bar in a strip of businesses along Eight Mile, the road made famous in Eminem's movie of the same name, "8 Mile." Proof, a member of D12 and whose real name was Deshaun Holton, was taken to a nearby outpatient treatment center by a private car, where he was pronounced dead.

Now this looks like a job for me / So everybody just follow me / Cause we need a little controversy / Cause it feels so empty without me. -- "Without Me" Remember Eminem? "Without Me," his 2002 hit, is appropriate for another spin now as the impish and provocative rapper makes his way back to the pop music stage. Tuesday finds Eminem back on the new-release shelf at record stores, albeit this time sharing disc space with his old Detroit buddies, the rappers in D12.

Ready for more Eminem? On the heels of one of the most turbulent years ever experienced by a pop figure, the Grammy-winning rapper returns to record stores--and, most certainly, the Top 10--next week as a member of the group D12. The looming question: Do Eminem and his mates retreat in "Devil's Night" from the no-holds-barred language that has made him the most controversial--and acclaimed--figure in hard-core rap? Not a chance.