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Also known as | The Dirty Dozen |
Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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D12 (also known as The Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop collective. They were formed in 1996 in Detroit, Michigan.
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).
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