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Overview of the events of 2005 in hip hop music
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 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
|
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 3
|
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
|
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
|
Roc-A-Fella Records, 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
|
13 & God
|
13 & God
|
May 10
|
Fannypack
|
See You Next Tuesday
|
Tommy Boy Records
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
Refs
|
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
|
|
See also
References