D12 – Devil’s Night (2001)

January 29, 2023

With Devil’s Night, D12 gave the world their first full length. Production-wise, you can easily consider this a sister album to Eminem’s original Marshal Mathers LP from the year before. Dre is back in the seat, and the beatwork is more or less the same; heavy, snapping metallic instrumentation and Dre’s super surround sound production that carries over from Chronic 2001.

Flow wise, the quality of rappers in D12 varies, as does the ability to understand what folk are saying. Eminem is clearly the lead talent here, but thats not to shit on the others (I think they already did a song about that, actually lol). Anyways, the non-single versions of “Fight Music” and “Purple Pills” are drastically different (especially the latter), and the record flows with some really cool songs, but does fall off a bit in the final third.