D12 Just Submitted Three Entries for the 2027 Grammys. The Group Doing the Submitting Is Two Men, Not Six.

D12 Forever, Volume 1 is in for Best Rap Album. "Tear It Down" is in twice, for Best Rap Song and Best Music Video. Here is exactly what was submitted, by whom, and on what calendar.

D12 posted a "For Your Grammy Consideration" announcement on Instagram Wednesday, October 7, confirming three submissions tied to this year's album: D12 Forever, Volume 1 for Best Rap Album, and "Tear It Down" featuring Xzibit and B-Real, entered twice, once for Best Rap Song and once for Best Music Video.

D12's official Instagram post announcing the submissions, October 7, 2026. View it on Instagram.

What was actually submitted, word for word

The caption reads, in part: "FOR YOUR GRAMMY CONSIDERATION. We're proud to share D12 Forever Volume 1 and Tear It Down featuring Xzibit & B-Real, submitted for consideration," followed by a thank-you to everyone who worked on the album and everyone still listening, and closed with the hashtags #D12 #D12Forever #ForYourGrammyConsideration #FYC #BestRapAlbum.

The production chain on the submitted material is specific. D12 Forever, Volume 1 is produced by Jake Bass, the same Detroit engineer who talked through pulling the original 24-track Infinite master tapes out of his family's F.B.T. Studios earlier this year, and executive produced by Kuniva. The guest list across the album's submitted material spans George Clinton, Method Man, Xzibit, B-Real, Tech N9ne, King Iso and Ice-T, per the post.

Who "D12" means on this submission

Here is the part the FYC graphic does not spell out, and that some quick-hit coverage of the post is likely to gloss over. The credited, currently active performers on D12 Forever, Volume 1 are Kuniva and Swifty McVay. The album also carries previously unreleased archival verses from Proof, who was killed in 2006, and Bugz, who died in 1999, alongside an appearance from Proof's son, Eli Blessed.

That is not the full original six-man group, and it should not be read as one. Eminem disbanded D12 in 2018, on record, in the song "Stepping Stone." Bizarre, the other living founding member, is not part of this project: he told Shirley Ju in a separate interview that we covered in September that he and Eminem talk, but he was not describing himself as part of an active D12 recording lineup. The "Tear It Down" video itself, which features a shoot one fan told us about from inside the room as a background extra back when it had not yet come out, has since been released and is now one of the group's two Best Music Video and Best Rap Song entries. We could not independently confirm its exact streaming premiere date, so treat "released" as confirmed and the specific day as unverified.

None of this makes the submission less real or less earned. D12 Forever, Volume 1 arrived June 19, on the 25th anniversary of Devil's Night, as the comeback album we've tracked since the group finally delivered on an old inside joke. It is just a two-man, archival-verse version of D12 doing the submitting, not a full reunion record.

The actual 2027 Grammy calendar

Since "submitted for consideration" gets thrown around loosely, here is what it means and when it gets decided. Submissions like D12's now go into first-round voting, which the Recording Academy has scheduled for October 12 through October 22, 2026. Nominations are announced November 16, 2026. Final-round voting runs December 10, 2026 through January 7, 2027. The ceremony itself airs February 7, 2027, from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and for the first time since 1972 the Grammys move networks, airing on ABC and streaming on Hulu and Disney+ instead of CBS.

So a submission is an entry into the first round, not a nomination, and nothing about D12's chances will be known until mid-November at the earliest. What is confirmed today is narrower and still notable: a Detroit rap group that Eminem publicly ended eight years ago has a 2026 album and its lead single in the Recording Academy's system for three categories, produced out of the same studio where Eminem's own career started.

Best Rap Album is a crowded category most years, and the Academy does not publish how many albums were submitted in a given cycle until voting is further along, so there is no reliable way yet to size up D12's odds against the rest of the field. What is measurable is the timeline: an album that dropped on an anniversary date, a single that took roughly six months to go from release to a completed video, and a submission filed with a little over a month to spare before first-round ballots close. Whatever happens on November 16, Kuniva and Swifty McVay got the paperwork in on time.