Proof documentary debuts Apr. 12 at Museum of African-American History

A documentary memorializing a frenzied 24-hour period spent recording an album just months before Proof's death debuts April 12 at The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

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"You see how focused he is on his music, how intense he is," says DJ Jewels Baby -- aka Julius Myers -- who posed the 24-hour challenge to Proof in Jackson, Mich., in January 2006. "This is a chance to see his greatness."

Proof, who gained worldwide fame as Eminem's right-hand man onstage and in the group D12, got together with Jewels later that month at Jewels' home studio on Detroit's west side and sat down to write an album's worth of rhymes. Sure, Red Bull helped them stay awake as the clock ticked away, but more than that, it was the spirit of creativity that drove them. "It was almost like we were kids again," Jewels says.

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