The song 'U R the One' contains a sample from 'Girl Callin'' by Chocolate Milk.The song 'Just Like U' contains a sample from 'Sir Galahad' by Rick Wakeman.The song 'Git Up' contains a sample from ' The Name Game' by Shirley Ellis.The song '6 In The Morning (Come On In)' was leaked in the bootleg mixtape Straight From The Lab.The clean version of the album allows 'ass' to be uncensored but few uses of the word 'hell', some references to alcohol use, most references to drugs, sexual content, and violence are edited out, although all sound effects remain intact.The song 'Barbershop' can be found on the Barbershop 2: Back in Business soundtrack.The song 'Get My Gun' is an unlockable song in the 2006 open-world game Scarface: The World Is Yours.The song 'Just Like U' does not appear on the clean version of the album.The skit 'Bugz' is taken from the song 'Desperados', performed by DJ Butter, Eminem, Proof, Bugz & the Almighty Dreadnaughtz.At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 58, based on 13 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Upon release, D12 World received mixed reviews from critics. ' My Band', the first single, was also successful, reaching number one in Australia and on the US Rhythmic Top 40, the Top 5 in the UK and Germany, and Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ultimately the album was certified platinum total sales of the album stand at 323,649 as of December 2017. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with approximately 76,666 copies sold during the first week of release.

Ultimately the album was certified double platinum, having a twenty-eight week stay on the chart overall. The album went on to have the best performing first-week sales for a hip hop release of that year until the release of Eminem's Encore that November. On the week of May 22, 2004, Usher's Confessions regained the Billboard 200's number-one spot, sending D12 World to number two. Debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, the album ended the first five-week run of singer Usher's best-selling album, Confessions. It sold about 544,000 records in its first week of release in the United States alone. It debuted in the top 10 in Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It debuted at number 2 in Germany and also in the top 5 in Switzerland and Norway. Guest appearances on the album included Obie Trice, Dina Rae, Young Zee and B-Real.ĭ12 World debuted at the top of the US, UK, Irish, Canadian, Australian and NZ albums charts. Dre, Essman, Hi-Tek, Kanye West, Luis Resto, Mike Elizondo, Night & Day, Red Spyda, Trackboyz and Witt & Pep. The album was executively produced by Eminem, who also handled most of the audio production for the album along with Denaun Porter, Dr. The album produced two singles, My Band and How Come, which were released in March 2004 and June 2004, respectively. Before the album's release, '6 in the Morning' was featured on Eminem's 2003 mixtape Straight from the Lab and was entitled 'Come On In'. Although shadowed by Eminem's success, members Bizarre and Proof managed to prevail with mildly successful solo careers following D12 World, with the releases of Hannicap Circus and Searching for Jerry Garcia, respectively, in 2005. At the time, Eminem was busy recording Encore. The group was often overshadowed by Eminem's massive success, and as such, the group toured without him for promotion of the album (but the album still reached the top of the US Billboard chart). The album also includes a skit entitled 'Bugz '97', which is a 1997 recording of Bugz, originally taken from the song 'Desperados'. In memory of Bugz, who was killed prior to a concert on May 21, 1999, the group recorded the track 'Good Die Young' in memory of him. The album is also the last D12 release to feature Proof before his death in 2006, and the second D12 album to feature Bugz on a track. The album sold 544,000 copies in its first week on the U.S. D12 World is the second and final studio album by American hip-hop supergroup D12, released on April 27, 2004.

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