War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
1998 studio album by Ice Cube From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
War & Peace Volume 1 (The War Disc) is the fifth studio album by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on November 17, 1998, through Lench Mob Records and Priority Records. The album features production by Bud'da, E-A-Ski, Ice Cube, K-Mac, N.O. Joe and T-Mix. It is the first part from the two-album project War & Peace, the subsequent volume, War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc) was released in 2000.
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| Released | November 17, 1998 | |||
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| Length | 70:27 | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
| Los Angeles Times | [4] |
| NME | 6/10[5] |
| RapReviews | 5/10[6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| The Source | [8] |
| Spin | 6/10[9] |
This album was Cube's first album in five years since his last album, Lethal Injection, while he was working on other projects. The album received generally mixed reviews and debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 180,000 copies in the first week.[10]
Content
It moves from intense street-oriented jams to rap-metal fusions, such as the Korn featured song "Fuck Dying", to social commentary such as "Ghetto Vet". "Greed" was included on the album from Gang Related, released the previous year.
Commercial performance
War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 180,000 copies in the first week.[10] This became Ice Cube's fourth US top-ten album.[10] On January 25, 1999, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies in the United States.[11]
Ice Cube performed on the 1998 edition of Family Values Tour, alongside Korn, Rammstein, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. Ice Cube performed as the third act between Rammstein & Limp Bizkit, and was there all the way up until the last five shows where he left to start filming Next Friday, with Incubus replacing him.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Ask About Me" |
| T-Mix | 3:06 |
| 2. | "Pushin' Weight" (featuring Mr. Short Khop) |
| N.O. Joe | 4:38 |
| 3. | "Dr. Frankenstein" |
| N.O. Joe, Ice Cube, Joe Joe | 4:54 |
| 4. | "Fuck Dying" (featuring Korn) |
| Ice Cube | 4:03 |
| 5. | "War & Peace" |
| Bud'da, Ice Cube | 3:18 |
| 6. | "Ghetto Vet" (featuring Mack 10 and Mr. Short Khop) |
| Bud'da | 5:05 |
| 7. | "Greed" |
| Ice Cube | 4:29 |
| 8. | "MP" (skit) | Vyshonn Miller | 0:49 | |
| 9. | "Cash Over Ass" |
| Ice Cube | 4:21 |
| 10. | "The Curse of Money" (featuring Mack 10) |
| N.O. Joe, Ice Cube, Joe Joe | 3:39 |
| 11. | "The Peckin' Order" |
| Ice Cube, Deep Fried Damp | 3:21 |
| 12. | "Limos, Demos & Bimbos" (featuring Mr. Short Khop) |
| Rick Dutch Cousin | 3:51 |
| 13. | "Once Upon a Time in the Projects 2" |
| Ice Cube | 3:05 |
| 14. | "If I Was Fuckin' You" (featuring Mr. Short Khop & K-Mac) |
| Butch | 3:28 |
| 15. | "X-Bitches" |
| N.O. Joe | 4:59 |
| 16. | "Extradition" |
| Ice Cube, Bud'da | 4:38 |
| 17. | "3 Strikes You In" |
| N.O. Joe, Ice Cube | 4:34 |
| 18. | "Penitentiary" |
| E-A-Ski, Ice Cube | 4:12 |
| Total length: | 70:27 | |||
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Canada (Music Canada)[19] | Gold | 50,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[11] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
References
External links
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