Why Can't I Shake It?

I don't know why, but I'm somehow more distrurbed than I expected by the death of Proof of D12 fame. I never really listened to anything of theirs, and thought that what I did hear was a lot like Eminem himself without any insight or thought as to the source of their behaviors. But when my friend told me about it, I was shocked.

And even now it makes me sick to my stomach to think that he was not so much a victim but possibly a perpetrator at the time of his death.

I think I had some vague notion that there would be redemption for Eminem and his crew, somehow--that they would turn from violence once they had acheived some level of success. But this is what their successes glorify, I suppose. Proof was keeping it real, right? But in all seriousness, as Chappelle says, sometimes keeping it real goes wrong.