Late registration
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Roc-A-Fella Records Def Jam Recordings |
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21st |
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83:25 |
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Kanye West, Jon Brion , Devo Springsteen, Just Blaze , Warryn Campbell |
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Late Registration is the second solo album by US rapper and producer Kanye West . It was released on August 30, 2005 and went straight to number 1 in the US. In the first week it was sold around 860,000 times. Rolling Stone magazine named it album of the year, and the record went platinum three times. To date it has been sold over 4 million times worldwide.
The album earned West 3 Grammys in 2006, in the categories Best Rap Song (for Diamonds from Sierra Leone ), Best Rap Solo Performance (for Gold Digger ) and Best Rap Album (and thus asserted itself in this category against Eminem's Encore and 50 Cents The Massacre ).
Singles
The first single, entitled Diamonds from Sierra Leone, contains a sample of the theme music from Diamantenfieber by Shirley Bassey . The second single West released Gold Digger , along with Jamie Foxx . The track, released on September 17, 2005, was the US rapper's second single to make it to number one on the American Billboard charts. It stayed in the Top 100 for 38 weeks. The third single was Heard 'Em Say with Adam Levine from Maroon 5 and the fourth, Touch the Sky , with Lupe Fiasco followed shortly afterwards. Both were less commercially successful.
The Touch the Sky video, however, cost around $ 1 million and featured actress Pamela Anderson, among others . The last single from the successful album was called Drive Slow .
Track list
- Wake Up Mr. West - 0:41
- Heard 'Em Say - 3:24
- Touch The Sky - 3:57
- Gold Digger - 3:28
- Skin - 2:34
- Drive Slow - 4:33
- My Way Home - 1:44
- Crack Music - 4:31
- Roses - 4:06
- Bring Me Down (featuring Brandy ) - 3:19
- Addiction - 4:27
- Two - 3:31
- Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix) - 3:53
- We Major - 7:29
- Blown Away - 5:24
- Hey mom - 5:05
- Celebration - 3:19
- Sky - 1:19
- Gone - 6:03
- Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Bonus) - 3:59
- Late (Hidden Track) - 3:51
Reviews
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The album won three Grammy Awards and was also nominated for Album of the Year .
In Rolling Stone magazine , Late Registration was the only album from 2005 that received the highest rating of five stars. The magazine ranks the album at number 40 of the 100 best albums of the 2000s. It also ranks 118th among the 500 best albums of all time .
In the Pitchfork Media selection of the 200 best albums of the decade , the album reached number 18.
Spin magazine ranked it 104th out of the 300 best albums from 1985 to 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Top 50 Records of 2005. Rolling Stone , archived from the original on October 2, 2009 ; accessed on July 15, 2016 .
- ^ RIAA : Database entry , September 22, 2008
- ↑ Review by Andy Kellman on allmusic.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Rob Sheffield on rollingstone.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Alexis Petridis on theguardian.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Sean Fennessey on pitchfork.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Jon Caramanica on spin.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Hattie Collins on nme.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Alexander Engelen on laut.de (accessed on May 4, 2018)
- ↑ 100 Best Albums of the 2000s on rollingstone.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s on pitchfork.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014) on spin.com (accessed May 4, 2018)