Em and the entire Shady Records family have recently set up the website BigProof4Ever.com, where T-shirts and a poster bearing Proof's likeness are being sold.
On the shirts and posters, the words "Big Proof Forever 1973-2006" are read. According to a report from MTV, the images on the items were designed by graphic artist Shepard Fairey, who started his anti-authority Obey Giant campaign in the 1980s.
All proceeds of the website will go to the Big Proof Forever Foundation, an organization that will benefit Proof's five children.
The site also features words Eminem said during his longtime friend and hypeman's funeral.
"Right now, there's a lot of people focusing on the way he died," said Eminem in the clip. "I want to remember the way he lived. Proof was funny, he was smart, he was charming. He inspired everyone around him. He can never, ever be replaced. He was, and always will be, my best friend."
Proof, an original member of the Detroit group D12, was shot and killed during a dispute Keith Bender in April at Detroit's CCC nightclub. The shooter was Mario Etheridge, who was Bender's cousin.
Etheridge, who was a bouncer at the CCC nightclub, is said to have acted in his cousin's defense and was cleared of murder charges.
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