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The World Is Mine (Ice Cube song)

song by Ice Cube

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7775985 ↗
Source-derived summary

"The World Is Mine" is a song written, produced and performed by American recording artist Ice Cube. It was released as the first single from the soundtrack to the 1997 action thriller film Dangerous Ground. It was recorded at Ice Cube's home recording studio Westside Studios in California, and released on January 13, 1997, via Jive Records. Fellow rappers Mack 10 and K-Dee made cameo appearance on the track and in its music video. The single peaked at number 55 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and number 39 on the Hot Rap Songs. The song was later re-released on Ice Cube's compilation In the Movies.

Editorial summary

“The World Is Mine (Ice Cube song)” enters the record as song by Ice Cube. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Mine and Cube 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—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Mine and Cube.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The World Is Mine (Ice Cube song)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Mine and Cube provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7775985. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “The World Is Mine (Ice Cube song)” 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.