Too many of you this will mean very little. Proof was the founding member of the innovative hip-hop group D12 and his father is McKinley Jackson, the great soul producer. Proof will be a great loss to all the young up and coming hip-hop, soul, r&b artists of Detroit. He was and inspiration to them all as well as tireless worker for better opportunities for the kids on the street.

He was shoot dead outside a club on 8 mile last week, after a beef inside the club spilled out onto the street. Losses like this bring many things into sharper focus. McKinley and family are devastated by this sad lose. Although I only met him a few times, I can say, he was a real dynamic person and one of those people that makes Detroit the city it is.

Dave

Too many of you this will mean very little. Proof was the founding member of the innovative hip-hop group D12 and his father is McKinley Jackson, the great soul producer. Proof will be a great loss to all the young up and coming hip-hop, soul, r&b artists of Detroit. He was and inspiration to them all as well as tireless worker for better opportunities for the kids on the street.

He was shoot dead outside a club on 8 mile last week, after a beef inside the club spilled out onto the street. Losses like this bring many things into sharper focus. McKinley and family are devastated by this sad lose. Although I only met him a few times, I can say, he was a real dynamic person and one of those people that makes Detroit the city it is.

Dave

Did he or D12 release a track called " the good die young" a track that now takes on a spooky coincidence given this news, also did`t he have a big influence on Eminems career?? & imput into the film

" 8 mile"............. from the little that i know he was very well respected for giving young talent a push...................

Great shame,

had read a lot of good things about him. His work with D12 is beyond question...

He was shoot dead outside a club on 8 mile last week, after a beef inside the club spilled out onto the street.

Wasn't he shot after killing another guy over a pool game ? Or have I been misinformed ?

Who?

i nearly choked on my cornflakes when this boy's death was the subject of a daily telegraph obituary last week. normally it's full of things like colonel algy 'buster' blacke wishawe who fought with the chindits and once killed 200 japs with a toothbrush.

ah well. they can't say old proof wasn't 'keepin it real'.

I got involved in a thread about this on an American Football site of all places. Had a load of racist abuse, and then someone told the eejuts I was a white English guy. It still didnt shut the rednecks up.

Mind you I dont know much of D12's stuff at all. Not my darjeeling. I find a lot of that stuff too negative, and in fact helps increase the divide for the average black American. With Rap being so powerful, it would be great if a strong figure with a positive message could emerge. If a white boy like Eminem can break through...maybe there is hope.

Edited April 26, 200619 yr by in town Mikey

I was in Detroit when the news broke. Ironically the CCC After Hours Club where the shooting took place is on 8 MIle Road, not far from May's Used Record Shack, a favourite haunt of nortthern soul collectors over the years.

Wasn't he shot after killing another guy over a pool game ? Or have I been misinformed ?

https://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/1...d.ap/index.html

he who lives by the gun/sword/toothbrush.....

charlton heston's up in arms bout this