Proof raps posthumous verse on new Gorillaz song ‘The Manifesto’
The late Proof is featured on a song from Gorillaz. The Detroit rapper appears on the newly released ‘The Manifesto’, which serves as a second taste of The Mountain.
The D12 member, who died in 2006, raps alongside Argentine rapper Trueno, which comes from his early days as an MC.
In his verse, he raps, “You never seen a killer with fangs and millimetres/ That bang and killers need to be swangin’ and still I reach ya/ Y’all aren’t ready for death until I showed up/ Hold breath until you blow the one set my n*ggas throw up.”
Proof also references Gorillaz’s hit 2005 song, ‘Dirty Harry’. He spits, “A medic case that’ll detonate, Derty Harry/ A pathetic taste, a shroomhead that murder fairies/ A recovering heroin addict, looking down the barrel with my peerman’s eye.”
Speaking on the record, fictional band member Russell Hobbs said, “As space dust we are here forever and that’s a mighty long time. This is a musical meditation infused with light. A journey of the soul, with beats.”
Proof was shot and killed on 8 Mile Road in Detroit in 2006. A childhood friend of Eminem, he released one solo album, Searching for Jerry Garcia, in 2005, which reached number 65 on the Billboard 200.
As a member of D12 alongside Em, Bizarre, Mr Porter and co., he released the albums Devil’s Night and D12 World.
Eminem once told Rolling Stone, “The best way to describe Proof would be a rock. Somebody to confide in, somebody who always had your back.”
The upcoming Gorillaz album is stacked with hip-hop appearances, including Black Thought, De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove, and Yasiin Bey.