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ProPain (album)

2004 studio album by Mars Ill

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ7246676 ↗
Source-derived summary

ProPain is a 2004 album by hip-hop duo Mars Ill.

Track listing

Pro Pain Intro

Say So

Sound Off

Dog Ear Page

More ft. Ahmad of 4th Avenue Jones and Anthony David

Just the Two of Us

Stand Back and Watch

Wicked Ways

All Out

Saturday Night Special ft. Ishues and D.R.E.S the Beatnik

Higher

Moment

Effortless ft. XL:144

Loud!

Write of Passage ft. Ben Hameen and J-Mil

When Heaven Scrapes the Pavement

I Is

We Out

Re-releases

ProPain was re-released as Pro*Pain in 2006 and a remix, Slow Flame, was released in 2007.

References

External links

"Album Reviews Archive - CBNmusic.com". cbn.com. Retrieved December 4, 2014.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “ProPain (album)” is 2004 studio album by Mars Ill. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through ProPain, album and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2006, 2007, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-10-19. For this dossier, ProPain, album and studio is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2004 studio album by Mars Ill” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7246676. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2014.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “ProPain (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.