Purple Pills

Infobox Single
Name = Purple Pills

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Artist = D12
from Album = Devil's Night
Released = 2001
Format = CD
Recorded = 54 Sound and The Lodge
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 4:19 ("Purple Hills")
Label = Shady / Interscope
Producer = Eminem
Chart position =
* #2 (UK)
* #3 (AUS)
* #19 (USA)
Reviews =
Last single = "Shit on You"
(2000)
This single = "Purple Pills"
(2001)
Next single = "Fight Music"
(2001)

"Purple Pills" is a hip hop single by D12. It contains a radio version of the track called "Purple Hills", and is from D12's 2001 debut album "Devil's Night". It achieved notable success, reaching #2 on the UK Singles Chart and #19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

The song contains many references to drug use, with "purple pills," "golden seals," and "Mushroom Mountain" being examples of recreational drug use. The song was deemed inappropriate for play on many radio stations, and a radio edit was made removing most drug and sex references. The edit was called "Purple Hills", and lines such as "I've been up mushroom mountain" were altered to things such as "I've climbed the highest mountain," and "I take a couple uppers" was changed to "I've been so many places." The edit was the most-played version on Top 40 radio, but a number of underground radio stations played the unedited single.

ee also

*Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills