War & Peace, Vol. 1 (The War Disc)
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| Released | November 17, 1998 | |||
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| Length | 70:27 | |||
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| Ice Cube chronology | ||||
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| Singles from War & Peace, Vol. 1 (The War Disc) | ||||
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| AllMusic | |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| NME | 6/10 |
| RapReviews | 5/10 |
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| The Source | |
| Spin | 6/10 |
War & Peace, Vol. 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.
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.