This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Can a full-blown N.W.A reunion disc be far off?
First, surviving core members MC Ren, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube put aside a decade of ill will to team up for a track on Cube’s Next Friday soundtrack. Now, here they are again, bragging about how they “started this gangsta s—” on the opening g-funk salvo from Cube’s new Peace album, the second volume in his ambitious two-disc War & Peace series. Of course, Peace is a relative term. Sure, compared to War, with its guest appearance from Korn, this is a lower-key, more passive-aggressive affair. Even so, there’s more than enough bumptious beatwork, foul-mouthed ferocity and ruffneck rhymes to ensure this isn’t exactly going to quality as soothing, New Age fare. And in the end, it’s better not to compare them but to look at the big picture — taken as a set, War & Peace is Ice’s strongest, consistent work since AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted. It might even be the best album he’ll ever make — unless that reunion disc becomes a reality.
