The Original Gangster of Hip Hop

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USWR31650302

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1987

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xa41c196a9c4d1f38d5c1d6db9bf46f8dcc44be8c8fb9356ecb5b1c17b0045321

Copyright registration time

2026-07-06T10:25:58+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-07T15:12:44Z

Bitcoin block

957055

Canonical record hash

sha256:8c4820b44509c47584286142142e36c46cbc721e628fabae3091e2bc00f66139

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1987, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

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