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.[9]
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.[9] This became Ice Cube's fourth US top-ten album.[9] 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.[10]
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.
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.[9]
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.[9] This became Ice Cube's fourth US top-ten album.[9] 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.[10]
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.