Featuring...Ice Cube is a compilation album by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on December 16, 1997, by Priority Records. The material featured on the compilation spans a length of about seven years. The earliest tracks are taken from the 1990 album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted while "Bend a Corner Wit Me" was a brand new release at the time.[2] The compilation was released while Ice Cube was enjoying notoriety from his recent success with Westside Connection. Despite the title, several of the tracks were originally released on Ice Cube's studio albums and featured other artists. The album was produced by Ice Cube with A&R and marketing by Joel Conrad Bechtolt and Greg Danylyshn for Priority Records. Featuring...Ice Cube was a Billboard Top 40 Hip-Hop/ R&B hit and went gold in 1998.

Featuring...Ice Cube
Compilation album by
ReleasedDecember 16, 1997
GenreGangsta rap
LabelPriority Records
Ice Cube chronology
Bootlegs & B-Sides
(1994)
Featuring...Ice Cube
(1997)
War & Peace - Volume 1 (The War Disc)
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Promotional T-shirt for the Featuring...Ice Cube compilation album

Track listing edit

Track Title Featured guest(s) Length Album Year
1 Bend a Corner Wit Me Mr. Short Khop 4:00 Unreleased 1997
2 Natural Born Killaz Dr. Dre 4:49 Murder Was the Case 1994
3 Bow Down Westside Connection 3:31 Bow Down 1996
4 Bop Gun (One Nation) George Clinton 4:50 Lethal Injection 1993
5 Check Yo Self Das EFX 3:56 The Predator 1992
6 Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) Chuck D 3:24 AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted 1990
7 Trespass Ice-T 2:56 Trespass 1993
8 It's a Man's World Yo-Yo 5:29 AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted 1990
9 West Up! WC and the Maad Circle and Mack 10 4:47 Curb Servin' 1995
10 Game Over Scarface, Dr. Dre and Too Short 4:03 The Untouchable 1997
11 Wicked Wayz Mr. Mike 4:07 Wicked Wayz 1996
12 Two to the Head Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Scarface and Bushwick Bill 4:46 Live and Let Die 1992


Charts edit

Charts[3] Peak
position
US Billboard 200 #116
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums #32

References edit

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ allmusic: Bend a Corner Wit Me - Ice Cube, Allmusic (AMG)/Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 2008-07-30
  3. ^ allmusic: ((( Featuring...Ice Cube > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums ))), Allmusic (AMG)/Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 2008-07-30