Today is a special day for us.
D12 Forever: Volume 1 is officially out now on all streaming platforms
We're doing our best to keep this legacy alive and represent everyone who helped build it.
A special thank you to Marshall for believing that we could pull this project off, even when we were doing it on our own. Thank you for the encouragement and for carrying our CD with you as the project progressed. Even with your incredibly busy schedule, you still tried to make the project deadline, and that means a lot.
Thank you to Paul for his support, motivation, and encouragement throughout this process.
To all of the brothers who helped make D12 what it is today, we hope we've done right by this project. The absence of Proof in the flesh is something we feel every day. But everything he taught us, everything he stood for, and the spirit he brought to this group was never lost. His influence was with us every step of the way, and thanks to his son Deshaun and family, so was his voice.
To everyone who has supported us through the years and stuck with us through the highs and lows, sincerely, thank you. Your support has meant the world.
Much love to Erik and the entire Theory / Compound / Virgin / A Splitter team for believing in this project and helping bring it to life. Shade 45 and Ron Millz for their support..Salute to all of you.
There were times when it would've been easier to walk away. When it was so hard to move forward, and we had every reason to quit. But y'all know us. We do what the fuck we want.
To Xzibit, Method Man, B-Real, George Clinton, Tech N9ne, King Iso, Ice-T, Eli Ble$$ed (Proof would be proud), Melanie Rutherford, Nick and Sly Piper, your support and contributions to this project mean a great deal to us. It's an honor and a blessing to have all of you be a part of this project.Derty Jake we did it!
Right now, we're in the UK getting ready for our shows, celebrating this release with fans across the world, and this is by no means a complete list of everyone who contributed.
To everyone who played a part, supported us, encouraged us, and believed in us, thank you.
From Devil's Night to D12 Forever, this has always been bigger than us.
Thank you for riding with us.
We invented the washing machine, the dryer, the dishwasher, the microwave, frozen dinners, online grocery, the robot vacuum, and DoorDash. The married household with young kids spends more total hours on chores and childcare today than it did in 1965.
Dads went from under 10 hours a week to 28.7, the 300% everyone is quoting. Moms went from the high 40s to 42.5, a slide of five or six. Stack the two and the household total rises. A full century of labor-saving invention, and the modern family with toddlers logs more unpaid hours at home than the family that did the laundry by hand.
Here is the part that should stop you. Every one of those machines did its job. Core housework genuinely collapsed. Mothers do roughly half the cooking and cleaning they did in the 1960s. The dishwasher worked. The dryer worked. The hours got freed.
Then the culture spent them. The time the appliances saved flowed straight back into the children. This is the same law that governs every efficiency gain modern life has produced. Faster email bought us more email. Automation at home bought us a higher bar for what a parent owes a kid.
Watch what childcare even means now versus then. In 1965 a kid got sent outside until dinner. Supervision was loose, the neighborhood raised half of them, and a parent hovering every waking hour would have looked unwell. Today the job is continuous. Driving to practice, sitting through homework, managing screens, booking the enrichment, never leaving a small child unwatched. The one activity that exploded is the one no machine will ever touch. You cannot DoorDash attention.
So pull back and the chart stops being about fathers. It is a portrait of a species that refuses to bank its own productivity. Every tool we built to do less at home, we spent on doing more for the kids. The washing machine freed the afternoon. We handed the afternoon to the children and quietly renamed the old, looser way neglect.
We automated the housework and poured every saved minute into the one job we decided can never be done well enough.
Some advice if you run into "these guys"
1. Don't shake hands
2. Don't attend a feast if invited
3. Don't go down creepy hallways
4. Don't listen to any of them named "Michael"
5. Bring a P90
Hey, Amazon. If you think a new Stargate series won’t perform well, consider that fans continue to religiously watch episodes from 20+ years ago.
My wife and I have the Blu-rays in constant rotation and usually watch an episode every night. We’re in the middle of our 21st marathon (currently SG-1, Season 6, Episode 4 - Frozen). Not a week goes by without Stargate playing in our house. Our daughter has watched it countless times and knows the intro music by heart.
Stargate has seen us through good times and bad. Rain and shine. Elation and heartbreak. It has a quality that hasn’t been available on television in decades. It will always be part of our lives and that’s a testament to its greatness and why it should live on with new episodes that preserve the spirit of the original.
You want a hit? Rethink the absurd decision to cancel the new series with the original team. Give them what they need to do their work. Then release it and check the numbers. Afterwards, remaster the original Blu-rays in 4K as an anniversary edition and release it alongside the new series.
You will be met with the enthusiasm of a fan base like no other.
Take a chance on this team. Take a chance on the fans. You will not be disappointed.
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#SaveStargate #Stargate
Stargate Command has a message for you.
HAVE YOU SIGNED THE STARGATE REVIVAL PETITION?
No? Well then here's the link.
That's an order SGC personnel.
https://t.co/M5cAurmUh5
I started watching SG-1 at age 15. I was the first in the family to start, but one by one they all joined me. Then one day, even my Dad joined. NOTHING on television held my Dad's interest. He never went to the movies. It was the first time I'd ever connected with him in this way. Not long after he started, he came home one day with the first season DVD box set, and the whole family started watching from the beginning. He kept buying the sets, until we caught up with the currently airing show, and then we watched like clockwork as a family every Friday night, with pizza and soda.
You have to understand, that is a CRAZY thing to type out about my Dad. He never did stuff like that. He was tough to connect with about something that wasn't mechanical or construction. I can't think of a single other fun thing he did with us that wasn't what a kid would consider "chores" or "work." My siblings and I treasured those Friday nights like nothing else. It was an entirely new experience, having something like that where he would quote the lines to you in the middle of the day (Teal'c lines were his favorite, especially the infamous "undomesticated equines" line).
My Dad has been buried for almost 8 years now. My oldest two kids barely remember him and the other two never met him. We recently watched both SG-1 and Atlantis as a family. It's been an emotional ride, sharing this with them yet wishing Grandpa was around to share it with them too. My kids ADORE Stargate. My girls have crushes on Daniel Jackson and John Sheppard. My youngest son wants to BE Jack O'neill. They cried when Daniel ascended the first time. They were over the MOON at the idea of a new series in the works to enjoy. I haven't had the heart to tell them the news that the whole thing has been called off.
Save Stargate!