{"id":140030,"date":"2026-06-20T13:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=140030"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:18:05","slug":"audio-review-d-12-forever-volume-1-album-d-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=140030","title":{"rendered":"audio review : D-12 Forever [ Volume 1 ] ( album ) &#8230; D-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/140030.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : D-12 Forever [ Volume 1 ] ( album ) ... D-12\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 12 is supposed to represent the original six rappers and their split personalities, but the name still works. &#8220;D-one-two!&#8221; the chant goes as if to count the members left. This should be presented as a &#8220;Kuniv and Swift&#8221; album because that&#8217;s what it is. The only thing sadder than posthumous verses from Bugz and Proof is that Eminem, Kon Artis and Bizarre couldn&#8217;t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>Their best album is the first one and there are embers of <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=9547\" title=\"audio review : Devil's Night ( album ) ... D-12\">Devil&#8217;s Night<\/a> scattered about, including a new Public Service Announcement and a witty story entitled Kill The Engineer. Collabs with the likes of B-Real, Method Man and Tech N9ne are also decent. The aforementioned posthumous ones; Proof died 20 years ago and he&#8217;s featured more than twice; are tacky in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12 is supposed to represent the original six rappers and their split personalities, but the name still works. &#8220;D-one-two!&#8221; the chant goes as if to count the members left. This should be presented as a &#8220;Kuniv and Swift&#8221; album because that&#8217;s what it is. The only thing sadder than posthumous verses from Bugz and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=140030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : D-12 Forever [ Volume 1 ] ( album ) &#8230; D-12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[517,15478,519,142,151,516,7812,1138,11454,1137,515],"class_list":["post-140030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-bizarre","tag-bugz","tag-d-12","tag-eminem","tag-guns","tag-kuniva","tag-michigan","tag-mr-porter","tag-music","tag-proof","tag-swifty-mcvay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140030"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140044,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140030\/revisions\/140044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}