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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2005.

Released albums

Release Date	Artist	Album	Label
January 1	H Cube	Urban Legend (album)	Grand Hustle
January 18	The Game	The Documentary	Aftermath Entertainment, G-Unit Records, Interscope Records
January 25	Buck 65	This Right Here Is Buck 65
	Geto Boys	The Foundation	Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records
	Spice 1	Dyin' 2 Ball
	Pete Rock	The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions	BBE Records
January 27	Twista	Kamikaze (Twista album)	Atlantic Records
February 8	Krayzie Bone	Gemini: Good vs. Evil	Ball'r Records, ThugLine Records
	Mike Ladd	Negrophilia: The Album
	One Be Lo	S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (Sounds Of Nahshid Originate Good Rhymes And Music)	Subterraneous Records, Fat Beats Records
	Rapper Big Pooh	Sleepers	6 Hole Records, Caroline Distribution
	Sage Francis	A Healthy Distrust	Epitaph Records
February 22	A Gun Called Tension	A Gun Called Tension
	Aesop Rock	Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives	Definitive Jux
	Busdriver	Fear of a Black Tangent
	Jumpsteady	Master of the Flying Guillotine	Psychopathic Records
	Sole	Live from Rome
	TRU	The Truth	The New No Limit Records, Koch Records
March 1	Pimp C	Sweet James Jones Stories	Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records
March 5	50 Cent	The Massacre	G-Unit Records, Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records
March 7	Sev Statik	Slow Burn
March 8	Boom Bip	Blue Eyed In The Red Room
March 8	Tame One	O.G. Bobby Johnson	Eastern Conference Records
March 15	Kurupt	Originals
March 22	Anybody Killa	Road Fools	Psychopathic Records
	C-Murder	The Truest Shit I Ever Said	Bossalinie Records, Koch Records
	M.I.A.	Arular	XL Recordings, Interscope Records
	The Perceptionists	Black Dialogue	Definitive Jux
	Prefuse 73	Surrounded By Silence
March 29	Blueprint	1988	Rhymesayers Entertainment
	Beanie Sigel	The B. Coming	Dame Dash Music Group, Def Jam Recordings
	Edan	Beauty And The Beat
	Fat Killahz	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?	No Tyze Entertainment
	Will Smith	Lost and Found	Interscope Records
April 19	Esham	A-1 Yola	Psychopathic Records
	Roots Manuva	Awfully Deep
	Zion I	True & Livin'	Live Up Records
May 3	Quasimoto	The Further Adventures of Lord Quas	Stones Throw Records
May 3	13 & God	13 & God
May 10	Fannypack	See You Next Tuesday	Tommy Boy Records
May 10	Jus Allah	All Fates Have Changed	Babygrande Records
May 17	The Away Team	National Anthem	6 Hole Records, Caroline Distribution
	Insane Clown Posse	The Calm	Psychopathic Records
	Memphis Bleek	534	Get Low Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings
	Nobody	And Everything Else...
May 24	Common	Be	GOOD Music, Geffen Records
May 24	Gorillaz	Demon Days	Virgin Records
May 31	The High & Mighty	The 12th Man	Eastern Conference Records
	M.E.D.	Push Comes to Shove	Stones Throw Records
	Sean Price	Monkey Barz	Duck Down Music
June 14	Afu-Ra	State of the Arts	Life Force Records, Decon Records
June 21	9th Wonder & Buckshot	Chemistry	Duck Down Music
	Canibus	Mind Control	Tommy Boy Records
	Guru	Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures	7 Grand Records
June 27	Kano	Home Sweet Home
June 28	Bizarre	Hannicap Circus
	Twiztid	Man's Myth (Vol. 1)	Psychopathic Records
	Ying Yang Twins	USA (United State Of Atlanta)	TVT Records
July 5	Missy Elliott	The Cookbook	The Goldmind Inc., Atlantic Records
July 12	Felt	Felt, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet	Rhymesayers Entertainment
July 12	Frayser Boy	Me Being Me	Hypnotize Minds
July 26	Buck 65	Secret House Against The World
	Jeezy	Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101	CTE World, Def Jam Recordings
	Twiztid	Mutant (Vol. 2)	Psychopathic Records
	7L & Esoteric	Moment of Rarities	Babygrande Records
August 2	Necro	The Sexorcist	Psycho+Logical-Records
August 9	Proof	Searching for Jerry Garcia	Iron Fist Records
August 16	Vanilla Ice	Platinum Underground	Ultrax Records
August 23	Kurupt	Against the Grain	Death Row Records, Koch Records
	Pumpkinhead	Orange Moon Over Brooklyn	Soulspazm Records, Rawkus Records
	Skrapz	The 12 Step Program	Genetic Soil LLC
August 30	Kanye West	Late Registration	Roc-A-Fella Records, Def Jam Recordings
August 30	Tony Yayo	Thoughts of a Predicate Felon	G-Unit Records, Interscope Records
September 6	AZ	A.W.O.L.	Quiet Money Records
September 13	Big Shug	Who's Hard?
	DJ Quik	Trauma	Mad Science Records
	Little Brother	The Minstrel Show	ABB Records, Atlantic Records
	Smif-n-Wessun	Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded	Duck Down Music
	U-God	Mr. Xcitement
September 20	Cage	Hell's Winter	Definitive Jux
September 20	David Banner	Certified	SRC Records, Universal Records
September 27	Bizzy Bone	Speaking in Tongues
	Blackalicious	The Craft
	Lil' Kim	The Naked Truth	International Rock Star Records, Atlantic Records
October 3	Ms. Dynamite	Judgement Days
October 4	Twista	The Day After	Atlantic Records
	Atmosphere	You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having	Rhymesayers Entertainment
	Why?	Elephant Eyelash
	Spice 1	The Truth
	Tragedy Khadafi	Thug Matrix
October 11	DANGERDOOM	The Mouse and the Mask	Epitaph Records
October 11	Warren G	In the Mid-Nite Hour	G-Funk Entertainment
October 18	Black Milk	Sound of the City
	Bun B	Trill	Rap-a-Lot Records, Asylum Records
	Circle of Tyrants	The Circle of Tyrants	Psycho+Logical-Records
	Ninja High School	Young Adults Against Science
	Rev. Run	Distortion	Def Jam Recordings
October 25	DJ Muggs and GZA	Grandmasters
November 1	Canibus	Hip-Hop for Sale	Babygrande Records
	Fatlip	The Loneliest Punk	Delicious Vinyl
	Public Enemy	New Whirl Odor	Slam Jamz Records
	Tha Dogg Pound	Dillinger & Young Gotti II: Tha Saga Continuez...	Gangsta Advisory Records
November 8	Bigg Jus	Poor People's Day
November 8	Sheek Louch	After Taxes	D-Block Records, Koch Records
November 15	Mike Ladd	Father Divine
November 22	Talib Kweli	Right About Now	Koch Records
	Chamillionaire	The Sound of Revenge	Universal
	Rich Boyz	Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us	Guttar Music
December 6	Eminem	Curtain Call: The Hits	Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records, Web Entertainment
December 6	Lil Wayne	Tha Carter II	Cash Money Records, Universal Records
December 13	Snoop Dogg	Bigg Snoop Dogg Presents...Welcome to tha Chuuch: Da Album	Doggystyle Records, Koch Records
December 27	Trick-Trick	The People vs.	Motown Records

Highest first-week sales

List of top ten albums with the highest first-week
Number	Album	Artist	1st-week sales	1st-week position
1	The Massacre	50 Cent	1,140,000	1
2	Late Registration	Kanye West	860,000	1
3	The Documentary	The Game	586,000	1
4	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem	441,000	1
5	Get Rich Or Die Tryin' OST	Various Artists	317,000	2
6	Tha Carter II	Lil Wayne	254,000	2
7	Thoughts Of A Predicate Felon	Tony Yayo	214,000	2
8	U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta)	Ying Yang Twins	201,000	2
9	Be	Common	185,000	2
10	The Cookbook	Missy Elliott	176,000	2

Highest critically reviewed albums (Metacritic)

Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	M.I.A.	Arular	88	33 reviews	^[1]
2	Kanye West	Late Registration	85	31 reviews	^[2]
3	Edan	Beauty And The Beat	85	18 reviews	^[3]
4	Common	Be	83	26 reviews	^[4]
5	Gorillaz	Demon Days	82	37 reviews	^[5]
6	DangerDoom	The Mouse And The Mask	81	34 reviews	^[6]
7	Blackalicious	The Craft	80	22 reviews
8	13 & God	13 & God	80	20 reviews
9	Roots Manuva	Awfully Deep	80	19 reviews
10	Quasimoto	The Further Adventures of Lord Quas	79	23 reviews

References

[1] "Arular by M.I.A."

[2] "Late Registration by Kanye West".

[3] "Beauty And The Beat by Edan".

[4] "Be by Common".

[5] "Demon Days by Gorillaz".

[6] "The Mouse And The Mask by DangerDoom".

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Revision as of 21:31, 23 February 2019

Released albums

Highest first-week sales

Highest critically reviewed albums (Metacritic)

See also

References