D-12's Proof shot and killed

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5552

YOU know i woke up this mornin and turned on the news and i couldnt believe my ears as i poured my coffey. The newes man said that rapper proof was shoot and killed sometime this morning. I dont know the details but i want to say this.

STOP KILLEN DETROIT MUSICIANS YOU GOD DAMN FUCKIN PUNK ASS HATERS

I HOPE THEY FIND WHO EVER DID THIS AND TORTURE THERE FUCKIN PUNK ASS
AND
WHOEVER DID THIS SHOULD GET THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

IMEAN WHO THE FUCK WERE THEY
THAT THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE PROOFS LIFE

THIS MAN WAS BLESSED BY GOD
THIS MAN AS A YOUNG MAN HAD A DREAM AND WAS LIVING IT
AND SOME JEALOSY MOTHER FUCKER HAD TO KILL HIM

20-40 YEAR OLDS WHO ARE OG GANGBANGERS OR ARE STILL TRY TO GANGBANG OR STILL TRYIN TO COME U IN THE GAME. I HAVE THIS TO SAY TO YOU.
GIVE IT THE FUCK UP.
GROW THE FUCK UP.
PUT THE FUCKIN GUNS DOWN.

AND TO THE MOTHER FUCKER WHO KILLED PROOF

I HOPE YOU ROT IN JAIL WITH NO CONVERSARY AND YOU GET ASS RAPED AND BEAT DOWN ON A DAILY BASIS AND YOU DIE FROM STARVATION BECAUSE EVERYONE HATES YO FOR KILEN PROOF.

IF YOU WILL MISS PROOF REPOST THIS AS
"R.I.P. Proof of D12 FUCK those stupid haters WHO KILLED U "

I HOPE WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE GET RODE ON BY A MACHINE GUN CREW and even that is too good for whoever is responsible

Phil, did Proof’s album ever actually come out?

My whole day is ruined now

Seriously wtf?!

I still kind of can't believe this happened.

dead prez's M-1, D12's Proof and Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets are among the artists who have agreed to appear on an album about homeownership produced by a Detroit real estate investor.

Investor Robert Shumake went from being homeless as a child to owning Inheritance Investment Group, one of the top real estate companies in Michigan. Now he wants to give back to a younger generation by expressing the importance of homeownership and the opportunities of real estate investing. Being a part of the hip-hop generation himself, he thought that a rap album would be the best way to get his message out to the youth.

"I love hip-hop and I know kids really listen to the lyrics of rap songs, so I didn't see any better way to teach them about the real estate business and the importance of home ownership," says Shumake. "It is a fun, inspiring educational tool."

After choosing to produce the album, Shumake put a call out to rappers and spoken word artists, asking them to submit demos for the project entitled Take the Land: Elements of Real Estate.

"I gave them free reign to talk about homeownership however they wanted," says Shumake. "And the results were incredible. They made the principles of homeownership not only exciting and understandable-but radio friendly."

I hope he got his tracks down before he got shot dead: http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/8714

What will your last act be, one wonders. Let's hope making snarky comments about a man being shot in the back of the head isn't the height of your achievements.

[Chorus x2]
So lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home

But yeah, RIP Proof.

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5552 :

Interscope represenatives also confirmed Bizarre was not involved in the incident.

"Contrary to earlier rumors and reports, D-12 member Bizarre was not involved in the incident in Detroit last night," Interscope said. "He was at home in Atlanta, Georgia."

i liked proof's verses.

Police believe two guns were used, men may have shot each other (second man identified as bouncer Keith Bender)

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5555

Hey Dom, you are quite despicable. You And your ilk have already ruined Stylus Magazine. Why don't you just stick to that abortion and leave ILM alone?

I'm not getting why Proof wasn't a hip-hop contender by this point -- I mean, I can't recall any of his D-12 rhymes at all, but he seems to have been pretty talented.

Proof shot the other guy first (fight about a pool game), then got killed by the cousin of the guy he'd shot. (Proof's killer has now turned himself in)

http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5563

MITCH ALBOM: Lesson from Proof: Rappers heal thyself

April 23, 2006

BY MITCH ALBOM

FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

They say the first stage of grief is denial. And at the funeral of the rapper Proof, some folks were apparently in severe denial -- about what he contributed, the world he celebrated or their own part in the culture of violence that killed him.

Let's begin with Proof himself (legal name Deshaun Holton), who died not serving his country or saving a child but after a Detroit bar fight at 4:30 in the morning. Although police say his last act on Earth was pistol-whipping then shooting another man -- before he himself was shot and killed -- Proof was nonetheless hailed at his funeral for his friendship, his aura and, ironically, his love of people.

And his music, which includes these lyrics:

You got a gun on your waist,
I got (one too)

Or this:

We gon' ride till the wheels fall off
Or God wanna kill us off (gun sound)
I don't duck when you pop that gat.

Love of people?

'We're killing each other'

One of the rappers who spoke at the funeral last week was Obie Trice, a member of the circle that includes Eminem and the group D12.

Trice, according to published reports, told mourners: "I wanna talk to the black men in here that's coming up in the hood. ... We're killing each other, dawg. And it's about nothing. Nothing. Nothing."

Powerful words. But they'd carry more weight if Obie Trice didn't make his money recording songs with lyrics like these:

I got a 12 gauge Mossberg
to pump up your chest
Have you gasping for air after
that shell hit your vest
Fear me like you fear God
cause I bring death

Or this:

You back on the streets?
I send another hit at you
This is not a hypocritical issue
I will critical condition your tissue

And then there's Eminem, the biggest star in Detroit's rap universe. He spoke of Proof, his best friend, with understandable grief. I don't doubt they were close.

But Eminem himself has recorded songs about killing his wife, stuffing her in the trunk and driving her to the beach to dump her, with his young daughter in car. And in real life he has been arrested for brandishing guns during confrontations.

Does all this stuff not count?

Intersection of art and real life

Look, every guy is a great guy at his funeral. And your friends always are going to see the best in you.

But when you enter the public stage, you are judged by your actions on that stage. I would love to have my pals race to defend me anytime I write or broadcast something disagreeable, but it doesn't work that way. What you do is what they remember.

What Proof and other rappers do -- not all the time, but too much to ignore -- is glorify guns, violence and attitude, the kind of attitude that escalates an argument into a deadly encounter.

You can't suddenly decry that in a church when you've been making money from it out on the streets.

If the mourners saying "stop the violence" are serious, they'll begin with their own lyrics. And maybe we in the Detroit media should be less mesmerized by the fame of our hometown rappers and more critical of how that fame is achieved.

Finally, for those who say the thug image is just part of rap's "art," it's role-playing, why don't I know the difference -- well, I do. Here's the difference.

A bullet.

Contact MITCH ALBOM at 313-223-4581 or malbom@freepress.com. Catch "The Mitch Albom Show" 5-7 p.m. weekdays on WJR-AM (760).

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