"I used to be called Maximum, Brimstone, Godfather D. "I had a lotta names, baby," Future says. In "8 Mile," Eminem's semi-autobiographical movie, Proof's life was loosely depicted by Mekhi Phifer's character, the rapper Future. "He really keeps only a few close people around him, so losing one of them is going to be completely devastating to him," Bozza said. It was Proof's idea to form D12 - the rap group to which they both belong. "Proof was really the guy who got Eminem to be a rapper," Anthony Bozza, who wrote "Whatever You Say I Am," the Eminem biography, told ABC News Radio Eminem, who was born Marshall Mathers, became serious about music at 14, but had been rejected by fellow rappers because of his race. The two rappers had been friends since high school. He will be missed as a friend, father and both the heart and ambassador of Detroit hip-hop." "Not a day will go by without his spirit and influence around us all. "You don't know where to begin when you lose somebody who's been such a big part of your life for so long," Eminem said in the statement on his Web site.
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