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working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludacris and janet jackson. but you know, in there he wants to be his own star. so he releases his first album, the college dropout. the first single for college dropout was a song called through the wire. i spit it through the wire kanye west gets into a car accident in los angeles and in the hospital with his jaw wired shut he records the song. somebody order pancakes i just sip the sizurp it s essentially him rapping about how badly he wants to be a rapper. god saved my life. so he has me here for a reason. jesus walks college dropout was a cool first album. i told her to drop over in your new whip there s some great singles on there. but late registration to me is when it all came together. that s an incredible record. i ve got to testify
and that catches your ear. beyonce hasn t opened her mouth yet, and you re already hooked on that song. i looked so deep in your eyes i remember being asked once, what do you think, christina or britney? i said, beyonce. got me looking so crazy right now crazy in love. that s how it begins. it seemed like almost overnight she became a kind of icon. she became a deeply respected figure. beyonce! in the early 2000s the industry was so dominated by pop sensations and booming cd sales that they were totally oblivious to the new generation that didn t think music was something you had to pay for. using a pc to download music is one of the hottest of today s computer trends. that has the recording companies up in arms and heading to court. at the center of their dispute is a music sharing internet service known as napster. in the late 90s and early 2000s the music industry grew complacent. people had come to them and said you have to start investing in
year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by r.e.m. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. happy new year! so we wake up, it s 2000, we re all alive, and we re still in the middle of teen pop mania. don t want to hear you ain t nothing but a heartache boy bands were selling so many albums. every little thing i do never seems enough for you this is the biggest year in pop music history in terms of sales. brightbritney! britney! britney!
and outkast is amazing. one, two one, two, three outkast became rap s beatles in the 2000s because we found both but particularly andre becoming more obsessed with a kind of adventurous landscape of music. yeah, i m afraid hip-hop knew about outkast. but then they come out with an album speakerboxx and the love below. and they have this song called hey ya. one, two, three, four i know for sure it s barely a hip-hop song really. i m not sure what it is. but it s got this kind of frothy 60s vibe. it sounds like something motown might have put out when they were doing their sound of young america. hey ya hey ya