What is D12?
{{Infobox musical artist | name = D12 | image = D12 at the Anger Management Tour in 2005.jpg | caption = D12 at the Anger Management tour in 2005 | alias = The Dirty Dozen | origin = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S. | genre = {{hlist|[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]|[[horrorcore]]<ref>{{cite web |first=Mosi |last=Reeves |title=World Famous |url=http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2004-07-08/music/world-famous/ |work=[[New Times Broward-Palm Beach]] |date=July 8, 2004 |access-date=October 17, 2017 |archive-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223205610/https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/world-famous-6317883 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Sara |title=Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond The Beatles |year=2007 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-0-7546-3243-6 |page=52 |quote=The music journalist and author Dan Sicko describes certain strains of Detroit hip-hop as 'an extreme, almost parodied' version of inner city life, which he links to the extremities of urban decline in the city: 'both the horrorcore of hip-hop outfits such as Insane Clown Posse, Esham and (to a lesser extent) the multi-platinum-selling Eminem, utilize shocking (and blatantly over the top) narratives to give an over-exaggerated, almost cartoon-like version of urban deprivation in Detroit' (cited in Cohen and Strachan, 2005).}}</ref>}} | years_active = {{hlist|1996–2006|2008–2018}}{{efn|2023: Partial reunion}} | label = {{hlist|[[Shady Records|Shady]]|[[Interscope]]}} | past_members = * [[Eminem]] * [[Proof (rapper)|Proof]] * [[Bizarre (rapper)|Bizarre]] * [[Denaun Porter|Mr. Porter]] * Kuniva * Swifty McVay * Bugz * Fuzz Scoota }} '''D12''' (also known as '''The Dirty Dozen''') was an [[United States|American]] [[hip hop]] [[Band|collective]]. They were formed in 1996 in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]]. ==History== The band gained significant notoriety thanks to Eminem's interna