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The Essentials

2008 greatest hits album by Ice Cube
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The Essentials

Summary

The Essentials is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Essentials's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • The Essentials's genre is West Coast hip-hop[4].
  • The Essentials was produced by Lil Jon[5].
  • The Essentials was performed by Ice Cube[6].
  • The Essentials's record label is recorded as Priority Records[7].
  • The Essentials's place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • The Essentials is part of Ice Cube's albums in chronological order[9].
  • The Essentials's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • The Essentials was published on September 16, 2008[11].
  • The Essentials's has characteristic is recorded as greatest hits album[12].
  • The Essentials's different from is recorded as The Essentials[13].
  • The Essentials's form of creative work is recorded as compilation album[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[15]

  • Secondary type(s): Compilation[16]

  • First release date: 2008-09-16[17]

  • Genre(s): g-funk, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop, hip hop, west coast hip hop[18]

  • Community tags: g-funk, gangsta rap, golden age, hardcore hip hop, hip hop, west coast hip hop[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 52f74c31-a0e9-431c-8590-666f5783bb4d[20]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on The Essentials was Ice Cube[6]. It was produced by Lil Jon[5].

Publication

The Essentials was released on September 16, 2008[11]. Its place of publication is recorded as United States[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is West Coast hip-hop[4]. It is part of Ice Cube's albums in chronological order[9].

Why It Matters

The Essentials ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

Ice Cube

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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