It is where the city of Detroit ends and the suburbs begin. For this eight-lane road is a dividing line. The real significance of Eight Mile echoes far beyond Detroit. Despite his success and for all his riches, Proof died on the street that has become synonymous with all that is good and bad about rap music.īut Eight Mile means far more than another dead Detroit rapper, far more than one successful movie. Best man at Eminem's wedding, he was also a promising rapper in his own right as a member of the hit group D12.īut unlike the white rapper Eminem, the black Proof - real name DeShaun Holton - showed that most people do not escape Eight Mile. The film was Eminem's homage to the tough neighbourhood of his youth, which had both nurtured his talents and proved a terrible place to grow up. To many, Eight Mile is a familiar name - made famous by the semi-autobiographical movie of the same name by rapper Eminem. It also wrote one more bloody footnote to the growing legend of Eight Mile Road: a stretch of tarmac that divides both a city and a nation. It was a fight that ended another young black life in one of America's toughest cities. It was here last week that local Detroit rapper 'Proof' died in a gun battle. The only hint at the nightclub inside is three white 'C's tacked to a dirty wall. It is a squat one-storey building, windowless and dingy. Even by the low standards of Eight Mile Road, the Triple C bar was a seedy place to die.
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