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Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Kanye treats forbidden pleasure as a recurring temptation, questioning why things condemned as harmful can still feel irresistible.
Bring Me Down
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Brandy joins Kanye on an orchestral R&B duet whose soaring strings and hard-edged beat give the performance a dramatic scale.
Celebration
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
A large orchestra and a KayGees sample turn this playful party track into an extravagant display of the album’s symphonic ambitions.
Crack Music
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Kanye and the Game use the comparison between addictive music and crack to examine drugs, power, and Black survival.
Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
The original version pairs a Shirley Bassey sample with Kanye’s reflections on recognition, his own ego, and loyalty to Roc-A-Fella.
Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Kanye confronts the human cost of diamond jewelry and his own consumerism before Jay-Z redirects the remix toward business loyalty.
Drive Slow
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Kanye recalls being young and ambitious through car-culture storytelling, while the unhurried production eventually slows down even further.
Gold Digger
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Jamie Foxx and a Ray Charles sample anchor a comic, suspicious look at relationships shaped by money and status.
Gone
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
An Otis Redding sample grows into a shifting piano-and-string arrangement, making this late-album track feel increasingly expansive.
Heard 'Em Say
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Gentle piano and Adam Levine’s chorus frame Kanye’s reflections on economic hardship, social unfairness, and the uncertainty of everyday life.
Hey Mama
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Kanye thanks his mother for supporting him through choices she did not always share, making gratitude the center of the song.
Intro (Skit)
Unverified import · Late Registration · Ye · Year unverified
This catalog entry needs verification: standard Late Registration listings begin with “Wake Up Mr. West,” without a separate “Intro (Skit).”
Late
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
A Whatnauts soul sample underpins the bonus-track closer, returning the album to the sample-based foundation of Kanye’s early production.
My Way Home
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Common takes the microphone for an introspective interlude built around Gil Scott-Heron, briefly shifting the album into another narrator’s perspective.
Roses
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
A grandmother’s health crisis becomes a family-centered story of fear and care, giving the album one of its most vulnerable moments.
Skit #1
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
The fictional Broke Phi Broke fraternity celebrates its lack of possessions, turning collective poverty into an absurd badge of belonging.
Skit #2
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Broke Phi Broke turns its poverty into a group chant, parodying fraternity pride through a roll call of things it lacks.
Skit #3
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
Another Broke Phi Broke interlude turns the inability to afford milk into an absurd joke about eating cereal with forks.
Skit #4
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
The fraternity expels Kanye after discovering his income and everyday comforts, exposing the tension between belonging to the group and getting ahead.
Touch the Sky
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
A Curtis Mayfield horn sample powers an exuberant celebration of perseverance and self-belief, with Lupe Fiasco joining Kanye’s upward-looking momentum.
Wake Up Mr. West
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
An irritated teacher catches Kanye sleeping in class, reviving the school-versus-ambition conflict that frames his early albums.
We Major
Late Registration · Ye · 2005 (release year; edition unverified)
An expansive celebration of success stretches into exuberant backing vocals and a brass-filled groove, letting achievement feel communal rather than solitary.