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DeShaun Dupree Holton , better known by his stage name, Proof, was an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. During his career, he was a member of... the groups Goon Squad, 5 Elementz, Promatic, and most notably, D12. He was a close childhood friend of rapper, Eminem, from the time that both were 14 years old; although the pair attended different schools they lived on the same block. In 2006, Proof was shot and killed during an altercation at the CCC nightclub in Detroit. Holton was born to Pepper Holton, a single mother, whilst his father, Mckinley Jackson, was a music producer who left to pursue his career prior to Holton's birth. Holton grew up in Warren, Michigan, the city where he met childhood friend and future musical collaborator Marshall Mathers . Under the moniker, "Proof", Holton first rose to national prominence as a part of the rap group, D12, a hip-hop group he was instrumental in forming; although he had achieved a degree of success prior to its formation. He was featured in The Source's "Unsigned Hype" column in 1999 and came close to winning the 1998 Blaze Battle.
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Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the... Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
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