Artist: Proof
Best Album: Searching for Jerry Garcia
Best Song: Kurt Kobain
This Letter Could Have Been About: Public Enemy, PM Dawn, Paris, Professor Griff, Parliament Funkadelic, Puff Daddy

Why I’m Writing About This Artist: Proof only released one album to my knowledge– certainly only one major release– before he was murdered in 2006.  He was one of Eminem’s closest friends, and Em’s tribute song about him follows the video for Kurt Kobain.  He was also supposedly the inspiration for the character of Future in the film 8 Mile.

The thing is, Searching for Jerry Garcia is a brilliant album.  I mean, hell, just the title lets you know right away that you’re in for something different– who the hell references the Grateful Dead in a rap album, much less ends the same album with a song about Kurt Cobain?  I wish to hell I’d seen more music out of this guy; he was lost far, far, far too soon.

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