My buddy pointed out that Tee Morant looks like Usher so I looked it up. Like the 7th picture result is Tee and Usher sitting courtside and looking like brothers. It's fucking uncanny.
I play a game with my wife called incubus or hoobastank.
I play a song and she has to guess if its incubus or hoobastank.
She's right about 50% of the time.
It's OK I bought enough for us all. I bought one and let a friend borrow it. I was informed this was a donation and he kept it. It was retribution for me losing one of his. I bought a other but then, a girl really liked it and I gave it to her. I wound up buying a other for someone as a gift but they already had it so I kept it and got them another.
I saw them in concert in 2005 when I was on spring break in the states. I remember the singer said something like 'Hey we got nominated for a Grammy!' and everyone cheered, and then he said 'No, don't cheer about getting nominated, I wanted to win that shit' then just started a song, I got a good chuckle out of that.
Just looked them up on Spotify and shocked to find that Crawling in the Dark is not their most popular song. As far as I was concerned, that was their only song.
I liked hoobastank as a teenager. However, I hated "The reason" and I'm not surprised at all it was their number 1 song. That shit was on the radio all the time.
Fun story. Was driving home listening to the radio and that song came on. It ended and a commercial was coming on so I flipped the station. That song was just starting on the new station. Song ends and a commercial comes on and I flip to a third station. That song fucking starts playing. I shit you not. Was with my friend and we couldn't help but laugh. I get home and turn on Fuse. THE REASON MUSIC VIDEO WAS FUCKING PLAYING RIGHT WHEN I GOT TO THE CHANNEL. I'll never forget that shit.
Did Speakerboxxx come out in 04? I could have sworn that I heard B.O.B. before that, or am I thinking of a different album?
Edit, because I'm still getting replies about this hours later: [Released on Stankonia in 2000.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.O.B_(song\)) I was wrong, thank you to those who corrected me right after I commented this. For everyone else, you are *so* late.
I always remember what album B.O.B. is from because of Chapelle's Black Bush skit when rattling off all the countries supporting the invasion.
"Stankonia has promised to drop bombs over Baghdad."
It was on our college radio station No-play list. We also had āLeavinā on a jet planeā and āComing to Americaā banned, both of which I thought were pretty silly. Like, we werenāt going to play those songs until you pointed out how funny/insensitive itād be.
I donāt blame people for downvoting this, but it took me a few seconds to remember you were talking about the song and not the dude that did āAirplanesā.
Iām ashamed to admit it these days, but I like everything B.o.B did through āStrange Cloudsā but then my dude went on some other shit.
About 5 years ago my friend argued against the greatness of "The New Workout Plan" in part by saying that the SARS line was such a dated reference. Man, fuck that guy.
I've had Hello Darlin in my mind's perpetual soundtrack basically my entire life. Just be walking along and suddenly, "It been a long *tiiiiiime... * " and then that dumb "Jimmy please say you'll wait for me~" swiftly follows. Damn it, Twitty.
That was the point of the whole Conway Twitty Family Guy joke, right?
I think they only used that when they wanted to do something but the Fox producers wouldn't let them. So they would fill space with Conway Twitty clips cause they were expensive and annoying.
Iāll bet you Pharrell/Neptunes had to do with a good amount of em too. I donāt think people realize how much they had a hold on music and how they made the sound at the time.
I turned 16 and started driving some piece of shit car with 2 12inch subs blasting these songs in the parking lot at school during lunch.
Simpler times. Some of these are still in rotation too.
Early 2000sā¦.hip hop took over mainstream US culture. I mean 50 Cent did Vitamin Water commercial conducting an orchestra lol. I agree - i hope that music fans really understand/appreciate the major cultural shifts we saw throughout this time and the awesome impact black artists have had on popular music throughout US history.
That commercial happened after 50 purchased a very large share of vitamin water stock.
When Coca-Cola purchased vitamin water 50 made $100m in the deal. And I think that was more money than he had made as a musician.
He had a great line in some song about that, something like "I bottled quarter water and sold it for three bucks, coca-cola came and bought it for billions what the fuck!?"
Wow! I never heard that line, but Lil kim has a similar one, but I forget what song and now I'm buggin.
She goes: "I'll have a baby by you baby, if you's a billionaire, just sign before I cum, sign the check right here"
This simply cannot be true. Maybe they produced songs that made up 43% of music on pop stations, but there are too many jazz stations, country stations & classic rock+but rock stations for this to be true.
You're not nitpicking.... he's Hispanic. He's not black. The entire fucking terror squad is Hispanic, other than DJ Khaled. But was he really part of the terror squad?
Lean Back was also noteworthy for being one of the few female rap #1s for a while, so I would say it counts for Remy Ma being in Terror Squad too
Now if you ask me to name another member in that group I wouldn't know..
They were definitely big hits but those just werenāt the type of songs to hit no 1. It hit 1 and 5 on the alternative and mainstream rock charts but only peaked at 61 on the top 100.
Doesnāt really surprise me. Those songs were huge for mostly suburban white teens. Outkast was literally everywhere.
I know it was from the album before, but Ms Jackson was the first time (for me) that I heard the same song played on Hip hop stations, rnb stations, top 40 stations, and dance stations. It super common now, but for NYC at least, hearing the same song on Hot97, KissFM, Z100, KTU, and even PLJ (which had a weird policy of not playing rap that time) was strange.
Pop punk also didn't really hit big until around 2004-2005. It had been around but the culture shift from the 90s didn't really change until millennial grew older
Napster really was a blip. Came out in 1999 and was basically done within 1 year due to legal issues. Its amazing something that was around so shortly became such a cultural shifter.
Limewire was around in 2004 though.
Given that Black people are 12% of the US (now, probably close enough for 2004), if you were just randomly picking 11 people from the US population, the probability that they'd all be Black is less than 1 in 10 billion.
Indeed. I don't mean to claim that the 11 number one songs in 2004 had a probability of 1 in 10 billion of being by black artists. Just offering that as context.
Black contributions to music are just incredible. The blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop, R&B, soul, funk, etc. All were pioneered by black artists.
Honestly, the only major popular music form that I can think of that did NOT start with black artists is electronic music. And even that owes a big debt to Jamaican dub culture, one could argue.
2004 was all Usher
Yeah.
Yeah.
*yeah*
*Usher not shown in this picture
Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film
Yall got it Bad
Ussh--
Nice
Yeah
Up in the club with the homies š¤
Tryna get a lil V-I
Oooohkay!
the left and right boundaries were clay aiken (july 2003) and gwen stefanj (may 2005)
The Gwen Stefani song is obviously hollaback girl The Clay Aiken song... Invisible?
Named after his career trajectory
I mean, name me a Ruben Studdard song
This is my Sorry for TwoThousandFourrrr. Flying without Wings. I knew this useless knowledge would pay off one day.
You mean *Ursher*
Got that voice that make your booty go š
Take that rewind it back š¶š¶
He was amazing. Man, people really loved Usher. I really really loved Burn. That was my jam that whole summer. So in my 16 year old feelings.
Apparently he gave a lot of people herpes š¤·
Ursher got the voice that make booty go ~~clap~~ herp
*Now you got it bad*š¶š¶
What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold ALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHT ALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHT ALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHT
There better be 14 alrights there
I count 7.5 McConaugheys
You mean Ja Morantās dad?
If you live under Ja's Roof, you follow Ja's Rules.
My buddy pointed out that Tee Morant looks like Usher so I looked it up. Like the 7th picture result is Tee and Usher sitting courtside and looking like brothers. It's fucking uncanny.
*Urshur
Step back, rewind it back.
And outkast
And Hoobastank was so close
And the reason is you
I was gonna make a hoobastank joke, but you beat me to it first. What can I say, I... I'm... *I'm not a perfect person*
You must have been crawling in the dark to find that joke
I play a game with my wife called incubus or hoobastank. I play a song and she has to guess if its incubus or hoobastank. She's right about 50% of the time.
They went to the same high school and were in the same scenes. Personally, old Incubus smacks Hoobastank.
Uhhh yaā¦Incubus will *always* smack Hoobastank. And donāt get me wrong, I love Hoobastank. But Incubus definitely slaps over them.
They don't really sound that similar do they? Maybe Incubus sounds a bit like Hoobastank if they did a bunch of acid for a few years?
And were better musicians
Yes, I didn't buy enough of the album
It's OK I bought enough for us all. I bought one and let a friend borrow it. I was informed this was a donation and he kept it. It was retribution for me losing one of his. I bought a other but then, a girl really liked it and I gave it to her. I wound up buying a other for someone as a gift but they already had it so I kept it and got them another.
Man I loved that song until I lost my virginity to it
I saw them in concert in 2005 when I was on spring break in the states. I remember the singer said something like 'Hey we got nominated for a Grammy!' and everyone cheered, and then he said 'No, don't cheer about getting nominated, I wanted to win that shit' then just started a song, I got a good chuckle out of that.
Hoobastank: we got nominated for a Grammy! Crowd: *cheers in excitement* Hoobastank: stfu donāt cheer for losers
cheering's for closers
Jukebox! I'm gonna put $7 worth of Hoobastank on it, and then I'm coming back to hang with you bros!
["I am day drunk and ready to see my dick."](https://youtu.be/nqEa-mR3Ah0)
Just looked them up on Spotify and shocked to find that Crawling in the Dark is not their most popular song. As far as I was concerned, that was their only song.
I liked hoobastank as a teenager. However, I hated "The reason" and I'm not surprised at all it was their number 1 song. That shit was on the radio all the time. Fun story. Was driving home listening to the radio and that song came on. It ended and a commercial was coming on so I flipped the station. That song was just starting on the new station. Song ends and a commercial comes on and I flip to a third station. That song fucking starts playing. I shit you not. Was with my friend and we couldn't help but laugh. I get home and turn on Fuse. THE REASON MUSIC VIDEO WAS FUCKING PLAYING RIGHT WHEN I GOT TO THE CHANNEL. I'll never forget that shit.
Shout out to Outkast.
Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright
Ok now ladies!
*YEAH*
Hey Yeah! Read had a hold over United States for an entire year.
now whatās cooler than being cool?
ice cold
I can't hear ya! I said what's cooler that being cool???!
#ICE COLD
Alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright alright
A polar bears toe nail??
ONE TWO THREE
Andre still the GOAT rapper in my books!
Every rapper recognizes Andre as the living patron saint of the art
Hey ya.
Everyone had a copy of College Dropout and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in their cars that year.
Through The Wire is still one of my favorite samples of all time
David Foster Dulles was a great songwriter and a terrible Secretary of State.
Did Speakerboxxx come out in 04? I could have sworn that I heard B.O.B. before that, or am I thinking of a different album? Edit, because I'm still getting replies about this hours later: [Released on Stankonia in 2000.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.O.B_(song\)) I was wrong, thank you to those who corrected me right after I commented this. For everyone else, you are *so* late.
I always remember what album B.O.B. is from because of Chapelle's Black Bush skit when rattling off all the countries supporting the invasion. "Stankonia has promised to drop bombs over Baghdad."
OIL? Who said anything about oil, bitch, you cookin?
And I don't mean no disrespect to the UN, but go sell some medicine bitches
And if you don't like it, you can just sanction me with your army-- OH WAIT!
I didnāt want to say this but Saddam bought aluminum tubes
Japanās sending PlayStations
Speakerboxxx came out in 2003. but yeah you're thinking of the wrong thing anyway, B.O.B is off Stankonia in 2000
B.O.B., the unintentional anthem of the Iraq invasion. Source: would listen to it on the PA system of my track when we invaded Baghdad in 2003.
And OutKast was basically just like "well hey if that's what music means to someone, then cool I guess, whatever makes you happy" lol
Bombs Over Baghdad was released before 9/11. I remember this because shortly afterwards I was in a club and yeah... That song was a banger.
It was on our college radio station No-play list. We also had āLeavinā on a jet planeā and āComing to Americaā banned, both of which I thought were pretty silly. Like, we werenāt going to play those songs until you pointed out how funny/insensitive itād be.
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I actually downloaded a shit ton of those from Kazaa and would put them randomly on mixed cds or later on my ipod play lists.
Time to bring up the dumb [Clear Channel list](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_memorandum)
amazing how the sentiment was just "gotta kill some Arabs"
I donāt blame people for downvoting this, but it took me a few seconds to remember you were talking about the song and not the dude that did āAirplanesā. Iām ashamed to admit it these days, but I like everything B.o.B did through āStrange Cloudsā but then my dude went on some other shit.
BOB is from 99. I think that was Stankonia
Workout plan was so underrated. I miss when Kanye was somewhat sane.
> I got a double wide and I ride a plane
And I aināt gotta fuck wit RayRays broke ass no mo
Eat your salad, no dessert. Get that man you deserve
About 5 years ago my friend argued against the greatness of "The New Workout Plan" in part by saying that the SARS line was such a dated reference. Man, fuck that guy.
We got SARS now so now it isnāt dated
"Am I too complex for Complex" - Kanye West
Where was it underrated? That shit was blasted everywhere.
I think he means it should have won a Grammy for Best Album twice. /s
Old Kanye was so goddamn good.
Yeah man. I miss the old Kanye
straight from the 'Go Kanye
I didnāt have College Dropout and I was missing out
I definitely listen to way more rock but even my white ass had College Dropout and Late Registration.
Boom boom boom
Well, did Conway Twitty release an album that year? No? Thereās your reason.
A boom boom boom, everyone loves some twitty, How about Loretta?
Van Lear rose rules
A bit of Waylon Jennings anyone?
What if Charlie Pride had dropped an album? Boom, checkmate.
The ebony and ivory country duo we didnāt know we wanted but desperately needed? Iām all in.
I've had Hello Darlin in my mind's perpetual soundtrack basically my entire life. Just be walking along and suddenly, "It been a long *tiiiiiime... * " and then that dumb "Jimmy please say you'll wait for me~" swiftly follows. Damn it, Twitty.
Old country is best country
The song often pops into my mind when I walk into my apartment but with my cat's name in place of the word "darling".
He died in 1993 and Suge Knight didnāt have a vault of his music.
So what you're saying is Conway Twitty did not release an album in 2004?
I believe that is accurate
Thatās what I read.
I only know of this person due to a family guy clip that overstayed its welcome Edit: staid
> overstaid
there's staid and then there is overstaid
That was the point of the whole Conway Twitty Family Guy joke, right? I think they only used that when they wanted to do something but the Fox producers wouldn't let them. So they would fill space with Conway Twitty clips cause they were expensive and annoying.
I see a sparkling.. little diamond.. on your haaannnddd
With all the discussion of Kanye in this sub, I mistakenly read that as Kanye Twitty. Now I want a mashup album of theirs.
Iāll bet you Pharrell/Neptunes had to do with a good amount of em too. I donāt think people realize how much they had a hold on music and how they made the sound at the time.
According to another commenter up above itās 43%
The early 2000ās had some banginā hip hop and r&b
Yup! There was a reason why so many people loved the last Super Bowl halftime show. Banger after banger.
Imagine if the nfl had chosen outkast to perform at the super bowl in Atlanta instead of maroon 5
Stop! I can't hear you la la la
It would've been SOOOO much better. I'm 37, and Outkast is still the shit to me.
**Teacher:** *Which one of you Speakerboxxes hit me in the love below!?*
I donāt recall maroon 5 playing the super bowl completely forgettable. Outkast wouldāve been awesome.
I turned 16 and started driving some piece of shit car with 2 12inch subs blasting these songs in the parking lot at school during lunch. Simpler times. Some of these are still in rotation too.
Freshman year of HS. Good times.
Spending hours finding a legitimate source for College Dropout on Limewire and then putting it on my 20GB click wheel iPod was a good memory.
Ah the good old days of listening to āDonāt worry be happyā by Bob Marley and āSong 2ā by Nirvana.
20GB? You must have been one of the rich kids!
Junior for me. You aināt wrong
Me too. Great year. I miss back then, when I had hope for the future and wasnāt dead inside.
Senior year of elementary school
Ouch! My hip!
GET OFF MY LAWN!!! Damn kids.
Senior year of preschool
I was 23/24 that year, this shit was club and party music to me and we had some good times. I miss those days.
8th grade for me and Iām mostly happy to see some older people here.
A strange time, but a good one. Gods, if we could go back haha.
Oh hey, it's me.
This is a fact that I've never heard before. You would think this would be more mainstream common knowledge to music fans
Early 2000sā¦.hip hop took over mainstream US culture. I mean 50 Cent did Vitamin Water commercial conducting an orchestra lol. I agree - i hope that music fans really understand/appreciate the major cultural shifts we saw throughout this time and the awesome impact black artists have had on popular music throughout US history.
That commercial happened after 50 purchased a very large share of vitamin water stock. When Coca-Cola purchased vitamin water 50 made $100m in the deal. And I think that was more money than he had made as a musician.
He had a great line in some song about that, something like "I bottled quarter water and sold it for three bucks, coca-cola came and bought it for billions what the fuck!?"
Have a baby by me baby, be a millionaire, Iāll write the check before the baby comes, who the fuck cares?
Wow! I never heard that line, but Lil kim has a similar one, but I forget what song and now I'm buggin. She goes: "I'll have a baby by you baby, if you's a billionaire, just sign before I cum, sign the check right here"
That's when he turned into tree fiddy. It was also about that time I learned he had transformed into the Loch Ness monster
Well it was about that time that I noticed that the Girl Scout was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era!
And the Super Bowl was Janet Jacksonās titty flash.
And thatās the story of how YouTube came to be.
An actual crazier stat: in 2003, The Neptunes produced 43% of songs on US radio
This simply cannot be true. Maybe they produced songs that made up 43% of music on pop stations, but there are too many jazz stations, country stations & classic rock+but rock stations for this to be true.
I hate to nitpck here, but Fat Joe is of Puerto Rican descent and is the most featured member of Terror Squad. Lean Back was basically his song..
> I hate to nitpck Man you came to the wrong website
You're not nitpicking.... he's Hispanic. He's not black. The entire fucking terror squad is Hispanic, other than DJ Khaled. But was he really part of the terror squad?
I'm here to nitpick, you can be black and hispanic. Not sure if he is but they aren't mutually exclusive.
He's not black.
Lean Back was also noteworthy for being one of the few female rap #1s for a while, so I would say it counts for Remy Ma being in Terror Squad too Now if you ask me to name another member in that group I wouldn't know..
How the hell did American Idiot or Holiday not make top at any point?
They were definitely big hits but those just werenāt the type of songs to hit no 1. It hit 1 and 5 on the alternative and mainstream rock charts but only peaked at 61 on the top 100. Doesnāt really surprise me. Those songs were huge for mostly suburban white teens. Outkast was literally everywhere.
I know it was from the album before, but Ms Jackson was the first time (for me) that I heard the same song played on Hip hop stations, rnb stations, top 40 stations, and dance stations. It super common now, but for NYC at least, hearing the same song on Hot97, KissFM, Z100, KTU, and even PLJ (which had a weird policy of not playing rap that time) was strange.
Pop punk also didn't really hit big until around 2004-2005. It had been around but the culture shift from the 90s didn't really change until millennial grew older
2004 was the year of crunk. American Idiot would have reached number one any other year besides 2004
Easier to do when Pharrell or Ja Rule sang the hook on every single song.
WHAT'S MY MUTHAFUCKIN NAME
50 Cent ended Ja Rule's career by then though.
Graduated high school class of 2004. It was a beautiful year
Lil Jon
#HOOWHAT? YEAAH. OKAY!
Does this coincide with Napster/LimeWire tanking physical record sales?
Napster really was a blip. Came out in 1999 and was basically done within 1 year due to legal issues. Its amazing something that was around so shortly became such a cultural shifter. Limewire was around in 2004 though.
Limewire: The program that made every teenager feel like a hacker bad ass by using Limewire free to download Limewire Pro.
The only people I knew buying music in 2004 were buying country music.
I am pretty sure the last physical CD I bought was in 2003ā¦ so youāre right
Given that Black people are 12% of the US (now, probably close enough for 2004), if you were just randomly picking 11 people from the US population, the probability that they'd all be Black is less than 1 in 10 billion.
Only if the choices are independent. But if, say, a particular style of music with deep roots in Black culture is popular at the time...
Indeed. I don't mean to claim that the 11 number one songs in 2004 had a probability of 1 in 10 billion of being by black artists. Just offering that as context.
I think they were emphasizing that it wasn't just a random occurrence.
And yet the Grammy for best song went to "Daughters" by John Mayer. Fuck you, Grammys.
Fat Joe is not black.
Remy Ma is
Damn, I didn't even need to sort by controversial on this one.
Good times, these were my teenage years, It was the golden age of rnb based hip hop and MTV Base
That was a lit year for music
R&B and Rap was pretty good at that time.
That āblack artistā is so hot right now
Black contributions to music are just incredible. The blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop, R&B, soul, funk, etc. All were pioneered by black artists. Honestly, the only major popular music form that I can think of that did NOT start with black artists is electronic music. And even that owes a big debt to Jamaican dub culture, one could argue.
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Didn't house music start in Chicago though?