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Return to the Garden

London, August 2001

Hip hop group D12 is playing festivals in the United Kingdom.

Backstage at a show, they meet up with British DJ Tim Westwood for a group freestyle.

Eminem, who joined the group two years prior after the tragic death of founding member Bugz, starts the cypher.

Rapping over the instrumental for Pause by J Dilla, he shows off the lyrical and rhythmic acrobatics that helped make him the most famous member of the group.

We're D12. Reason it ain't just D6 is when we
stomp you it feels like twelve of us sneak licks.

As per a final wish of Bugz before he was killed in 1999, Swifty McVae joined D12 at the turn of the century. In his first verse, played here in its entirity, he plays around with the same rhyme scheme for the duration of his time.