Track Listing 1. Pushin' Weight - (featuring Mr. Short Khop) 2. Check Yo Self - (remix, featuring Das EFX) 3. We Be Clubbin' 4. $100 Dollar Bill Y'All 5. Once Upon a Time in the Projects 6. Bow Down - (with Westside Connection) 7. Hello - (featuring Dr. Dre/MC Ren) 8. You Can Do It - (featuring Mack 10/Ms. Toi) 9. You Know How We Do It 10. It Was a Good Day 11. Bop Gun (One Nation) - (radio edit, featuring George Clinton) 12. What Can I Do? - (remix) 13. My Summer Vacation 14. Steady Mobbin' 15. Jackin' For Beats 16. N***A Ya Love to Hate, The 17. In the Late Night Hour
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Das EFX, Dr. Dre, George Clinton, Ice Cube, M.C. Ren, Mack 10, Mc Ren, Miss Toi, Mr. Short Khop, Ms. Toi, Westside Connection, Westsifde Connection | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Ice Cube, George Clinton, M.C. Ren, Dr. Dre, Mack 10, Ms. Toi, Das EFX, Westside Connection, Mr. Short Khop (rap vocals). Producers include: Ice Cube, D.J. Pooh, The Bomb Squad, Budda, Dutch. Recorded between 1990 & 2001. Personnel includes: Ice Cube, George Clinton, M.C. Ren, Dr. Dre, Mack 10, Ms. Toi, Das EFX, Mr. Short Khop, Westside Connection (rap vocals). Producers include: Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, Dutch, The Bomb Squad, Budda. This includes a bonus DVD disc. Personnel: Ice Cube, George Clinton, M.C. Ren, Dr. Dre, Mack 10, Ms. Toi, Das EFX, Westside Connection, Mr. Short Khop (rap vocals). Producers include: Ice Cube, D.J. Pooh, The Bomb Squad, Budda, Dutch. Recorded between 1990 & 2001. Ice Cube's ferocious frown is familiar now from multiple big and small screen appearances, but as this collection reminds us, he's still first and foremost the thinking street thug's rapper, one of the original gangstas. GREATEST HITS isn't sequenced chronologically, jumping frantically from 1998's "Pushing Weight" to 1994's "Check Yo Self" with its "Message" backing track, to 1990's furious Public Enemy-influenced "Jackin' For Beats" (Ice Cube's departure from P.E.'s rivals N.W.A. presaged his hooking up with the Bomb Squad, Public Enemy's production team). But though the patchwork song list makes a clear overview of Cube's career difficult, it also makes for some thrilling twists and turns, for instance between the rowdy, early-'90s "The Nigga Ya Love to Hate" to the equally tumultuous but more sophisticated "Late Night Hour," recorded in 2001. What's obvious from even the most cursory overview of this set is Ice Cube's huge contribution to rap and hip-hop music, and over a decade's worth of unswerving dedication to putting his message across.
Editorial Reviews ...Cube's ghetto dissent never goes out of style... Entertainment Weekly (11/16/2001)
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