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Set the Tone (Guns & Roses)

2024 studio album by Ghostface Killah

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ126029289 ↗
Source-derived summary

Set the Tone (Guns & Roses) is the twelfth studio album by American rapper Ghostface Killah. It was released on May 10, 2024, through Mass Appeal Records. The album features guest appearances from Jim Jones, Sheek Louch, Method Man, Raekwon, Nas, Kanye West and more.

Background

On May 1, 2024, Ghostface Killah announced the album, with its first single, "Scar Tissue" featuring Nas, arriving two days later. The album's cover art and track listing were revealed on May 6.

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The public source identifies “Set the Tone (Guns & Roses)” as 2024 studio album by Ghostface Killah. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tone, Guns and Roses.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tone, Guns and Roses providing the first useful test.
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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 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126029289. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Set the Tone (Guns & Roses)” 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.