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Politics as Usual (album)

album by Termanology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ963310 ↗
Source-derived summary

Politics as Usual is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Termanology. It was released on September 30, 2008 via Nature Sounds. Produced by DJ Premier, Hi-Tek, Alchemist, Buckwild, Easy Mo Bee, Havoc, Large Professor, Nottz and Pete Rock, it features guest appearances from Bun B, Freeway, Lil' Fame, Prodigy and Sheek Louch. The album debuted at number 37 on the Heatseekers Albums chart in the United States. A music video for "How We Rock" was released in early 2009.

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“Politics as Usual (album)” enters the record as album by Termanology. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Politics, Usual and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Politics, Usual and album.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q963310. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Politics as Usual (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.