#kanye west 2005

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Jha Jha with Dipset photographed by Ray Tamarra & John Ricard on set of the music video "Down and Out" by Cam'Ron & Kanye West in the Meat Packing Distict in New York (April 2005).

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Year-End Poll #56: 2005

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2005 time. With Kelly Clarkson, we're seeing the first example of an artist jumpstarting their career off of the reality TV boom of the early 2000's. Simon Fuller, the manager for a number of UK acts including Spice Girls (until he wasn't) and S Club 7, created the show Pop Idol in 2001. In 2002, Pop Idol was brought overseas under a new name, American Idol. Kelly Clarkson won the first season of American Idol, and we'll see at least two more winners featured on these polls as we continue on.

Also notable is Hollaback Girl, specifically for the production behind the scenes. Songwriting and production duo, The Neptunes, was created in 1992 by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo. In addition to Timbaland (who we will cover in more detail on the next poll), The Neptunes would become a production powerhouse in the 2000's and beyond, helping to carve out what pop music sounds like this decade while also allowing their sound to evolve. For more information (because music production techniques aren't really my strong suit), I found two videos that go into more depth about their work and history. (1) (2)

[auxgod]

On this day in 2005, Kanye West dropped his 2nd album “Late Registration”

Ye was in rare form on “We Major”, “Crack Music”, “Gone” and “Drive Slow”, helping this sell 860,000 copies the first week with many saying this is his best album

What’s the most slept on beat to you?

[bestofmidi]

She take my money when I'm in need Yeah, she's a triflin' friend indeed Oh, she's a gold digger Way over town that digs on me (Uh)

original midi at https://freemidi.org/getter-27706

[music-moon]

My most played albums released in the year 2005:

Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi

Kanye West - Late Registration

Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Coldplay - X&Y

Justice - Justice

Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business

Data from last.fm + pythfm.

2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024

[fuckjose69]

Kanye West’s Late Registration turns 18 years old today having debuted at #1 as it garnered 860,000 copies in it's first week back in 2005.

[quitecontraryy]

You work late nights just to keep on the lights

Mommy got me training wheels, so I could keep on my bike

And you would give me anything in this world

Michael Jackson leather and a glove, but didn't give me a curl

And you never put no man over me

And I love you for that, mommy, can't you see?

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A M E R I C A

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honest series timeline

(white events indicate an official date, blue events indicate no official date, red indicates which events have corresponding parts)

1989

july first: daniel ricciardo's birth december thirteenth: daphne jones' birth

1994

september first: carlos sainz's birth

1996

february seventh: pierre gasly's birth

1997

march second: penelope trevino's birth september thirtieth: max verstappen's birth october sixteenth: charles leclerc's birth december eleventh: rowan todd's birth

1998

june sixteenth: natalia ruiz's birth

1999

may eleventh: mae jones' birth march twenty-second: mick schumacher's birth november thirteenth: lando norris' birth

2000

october fourteenth: arthur leclerc's birth november twenty-first: freya vettel's birth december thirty-first: logan sargeant's birth

2001

april sixth: oscar piastri's birth july tenth: dulce perez's birth september seventh: bailey winter's birth

2002

january twentieth: isabella perez's birth february twentieth: zoya torres' birth trevino family moves to madrid, spain first meeting between penelope and carlos

2003

first meeting between natalia and charles

2004

2005

freya's adoption

2006

october twenty-fourth: daphne's debut album release

2007

2008

november eleventh: fearless release

2009

september thirteenth: daphne gets interrupted by kanye west at the vma's

2010

twenty-fifth: speak now release

2011

july tenth: daniel ricciardo's debut grand prix

2012

october twenty-second: red release

2013

2014

june twenty-seventh: mae's debut in girl meets world october twenty-seventh: nineteen eighty-nine release

2015

march fifteenth: max verstappen and carlos sainz's debut grand prix april fifteenth: eyes wide open release mae and max begin dating first meeting between daniel and daphne

2016

february twelfth: kanye west releases famous february fifteenth: daphne seemingly shades kanye west at an award show july sixteenth: kim kardashian releases video footage of kanye's phone call with daphne, daphne issues a statement defending herself after the leaked call september twenty-eight: daphne and daniel begin secretly dating october fourteenth: evolution release october twenty-third: daphne performs after the us grand prix mae and max break-up

2017

daphne disappears for a year august twenty-third: daphne announces reputation october first: pierre gasly's debut grand prix november tenth: reputation release

2018

march twenty-first charles leclerc's debut grand prix november ninth: singular act i release natalia and charles' friends with benefits relationship begins

2019

pierre and rowan's situationship begins march sixteenth: lando norris' debut grand prix june thirtieth: scooter braun purchases daphne's masters july first: lover release july nineteenth: singular act ii release september thirtieth: seven release (see seven for further info) november twelfth: zoya's debut on high school musical: the musical: the series

2020

january thirty-first: miss americana release march twenty: the entire phone call between daphne and kanye get leaked july twenty-fourth: folklore release december eleventh: evermore release daniel and joshua reunite mae and max

2021

lando and bailey's fake relationship begins april ninth: fearless (daphne's version) release march twenty-eighth: mick schumacher's debut grand prix may twenty-first: sour release september: filming for daisy jones and the six begins november twelfth: red (daphne's version) release mae and max begin dating again

2022

march: filming for daisy jones and the six wraps natalia becomes pregnant july fifteenth: emails i can't send release september twenty-eighth: daphne and daniel get married october twenty-first: midnights release pierre and rowan accidentally get married in vegas september twenty-eighth: daniel and daphne get married november twentieth: sebastian vettel's final race

2023

january seventeenth: baby leclerc is born rumors of daphne and fernando dating begin (see the daphlonso scandal for further info) lando accidentally leaks daphne and daniel's secret relationship during a livestream (see the daphlonso scandal for further info) march fifth: logan sargeant and oscar piastri's debut grand prix march seventeenth: daphne's eras tour kicks off and emails i can't send fwd release mae and max get secretly married the first meeting between logan and zoya july seventh: speak now (daphne's version) release july eleventh: daniel replaces nyck de vries at alphatauri august twenty-third: mae and max's familial wedding party september eighth: guts release october twenty-seventh: nineteen eighty-nine (daphne's version) release november 11th: daphne's famous line change, "karma is the guy on the track" (see karma is the guy on the track for further info) november fifteenth: mae and max's vegas wedding party (see what happens in vegas never stays in vegas for further info)

2024

january 25th: charles leclerc extends his contract with ferrari for a disclosed amount of time (see divorcegate for further info) january 26th: lando norris extends his contract with mclaren for a disclosed amount of time (see divorcegate for further info) february 1st: lewis hamilton announces his departure from mercedes, and announces his multi-year contract with ferrari. (see divorcegate for further info) february 4th: the 66th annual grammys, daphne announces her new album, the tortured poets department ( see let him be a trophy husband! for further info) march 2nd: the 75th formula one season begins. april 19th: the tortured poets department release

… more events to be added

[soupy-sez]

Kanye West – Touch The Sky (2005)

[pinketine]

It's like. Rap has a lot of homophobia. And rap is a genre that's mostly black people, mostly influenced by black culture, and there's a lot of history and nuance and delicacy about homophobia in black communities that's hard to unravel. But the bottom line is that rap (and r&b by extension), has a lot of homophobia in it. And it's hard to be black and queer. You end up feeling shunned either way.

One of the first notable cases of rappers calling it out was Kanye West in 2005. And it meant a lot to a lot of queer kids who loved hip hop, especially black ones.

And Frank Ocean coming out, even if I wasn't there for it at the time, meant even more. The guy who made a classic album like Channel Orange was bisexual. He was black and his first love was a man and when you go back and listen to Bad Religion it all just clicks together a little bit more. He says his coming out word doc was hard to write in 2011 but only posted it in 2012 months later. Because it's so hard.

And it wasn't just Frank Ocean either. After years of edgy lyrics and shock factor and some slight undertones at something else, Tyler the Creator released Flower Boy and it was so. Vulnerable. His albums had always had some level of vulnerability to them but this was different. On Where This Flower Blooms... he says "tell these black kids they can be who they are" and I wish I was joking about the level of emotion I felt when hearing it for the first time. As a black kid, you often feel so constricted by the expectation that you should act black, God forbid you get called an oreo or a coconut. And after that, he kept being openly bi on his following albums and he's so casual about it that it just feels. Good. To see. That it's normal.

Lil Nas X is so bold. He was so brave and so bold and I smiled to myself every time my parents complained. And I admired it so much. It was very very cathartic. I wish he wasn't attacked so much by his own communities, and while his clapbacks are fun and tongue in cheek, it makes me sad they even had to be made. But it still feels so good seeing him do his thing, happily.

And it just keeps on happening, Steve Lacy, Kevin Abstract, Syd, even more that I cannot think of rn and I'm so happy that it's like that now. More rappers and r&b singers come out, some in casual ways, others in not, but they all keep coming back to how hard it is to be black and queer, like they're two identities that are inherently compatible when they really shouldn't be. But it's getting better, even if it's slow. And it feels so good to feel represented by the music I listen to as a black kid. Argh. Rap is built on rebellion and the queerness fits into it just right, I think.