It astounds us how few gays listen to Talib Kweli. Of today's hip hop artists, Kweli's voice and message definitely stand in the top ranks. Above you'll see the Kanye West-produced "Get By" from 2002's Quality. After the jump, you can give a listen to Ear Drum's, "Listen!" And we've also included "Black Star" with Mos Def.

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• Oded Gross' marriage came tumbling down. And it's all your fault.

• Kanye West meets Daft Punk.

• What's gay about Weeds season three? (Don't bitch to us about spoilers.)

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Kanye West let us down a bit with his most recent aural offering, Late Registration, so we're hoping he can redeem himself with his forthcoming full-length, Graduation. Above you'll see the video for that album's first single, "Can't Tell Me Nothing". It's not as upbeat as some of his other singles, but saturated in the homo-friendly hip-hopper's signature raw emotion.

Speaking of West's older hits, we've included "The New Workout Plan" from his debut, The College Dropout. Get your "Six-Pack Shakur" on, after the jump…

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Yesterday we brought you the gayest music of the past year. This time we answer the question "What straights were So Gay in 2005?" Here are our picks. We’re going to refrain from making any Kenny Chesney jokes. Oops, too late!

5. Martha Stewart. The persnickety domestic goddess we all secretly want to be more like had a rollercoaster year. After being locked up with a bunch of female prisoners (we just know she had a bitch of her own behind bars), she busted out bigger than ever. Sure her short-lived version of The Apprentice had a lame catchphrase, but we still watched every week.

4. Sharon Stone. Out magazine slapped her on its list of the 100 most noteworthy gay and straight allies for the year. But it wasn’t her short dykey ‘do that got her on that list or ours. It's her love for The Gays. She’s been a strong supporter of both gay rights and AIDS research as the Chair of amfAR. Next up for Ms. Stone: reprising her role as bi femme fatale in Basic Instinct 2. We can’t wait.

3. Gavin Newsom. We know that it was last year that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed gays to marry in his city, but he makes our 2005 list because he continues to be an incredibly outspoken proponent of gay rights. Just this month he pulled out as honorary co-chairman of a benefit for a Tennesse congressman who voted in favor of a ban on same-sex marriage. Take that right wingers.

2. Kanye West. This year superstar Kanye West had the balls to stand up against homophobic lyrics in hip hop. Not something that happens often (if at all) in the music world, where artists like Eminem take cheap shots at the gay community as often as they can. Not only did he not lose any cred, he gained a hell of a lot more respect from everyone, mostly from us gays.

Our number one het for 2005 after the jump.

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• Madonna lost a plagiarism lawsuit in Belgium. Now that country's courts are freezing both sales and airplay of "Frozen." Of course this only means more publicity for her new album.

• Fag haven Key West is becoming gentrified. See? This is what happens when you open your anomalous door to the vanilla that is MTV.

• Sure Kanye West had the balls to speak out against homophobic rap lyrics, but how does he feel about being around queers? "I still wouldn't feel comfortable at a gay bar. I wouldn't go to a gay parade. I don't know if I'm in favor of gay marriage or not." We're not saying he's worried about appearing too soft. We're saying his PR people are worried about him appearing too soft.

• Good news and bad news. HIV rates in blacks go down but are up for gays overall.

• We know most of you will be throwing down your hard earned gay bucks for a peak at Harry Potter's broomstick this weekend. We definitely will.

• Broadway star Denis O'Hare's partner was arrested for making a terrorist joke at an airport. We now know he isn't the funny one in the relationship. Terrorism jokes are so 2001.

• No doubt timed to prove his heterosexuality if his role in Brokeback Mountain is a tad bit too convincing, Heath Ledger becomes a dad.

• No stranger to homoeroticism (Top Gun, Batman Forever), Val Kilmer was the one who suggested he tongue Robert Downey Jr. in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

• The Chocolate Show comes to New York November 10. It's an entire weekend devoted to the second favorite thing we love to put in our mouths.

• At first we thought 50 Cent disagreeing with Kanye West over Bush implied one of them was coming out. Alas, it was actually just evidence that American political discourse has reached a new low.

• He's no Harriet Miers (in more ways than one. We so miss the mascara), but Judge Alito might turn out to be homo-friendly. Stress might.

• Jeffrey Brezovar is many things: gay model, boyfriend to Nate Berkus and, um, father to Camryn Manheim's baby.

• Bored with Desperate Housewives so far this season? You're not alone.

• A lesbian has accused her basketball coach of kicking her off the team for being gay. We're siding with the coach on this one. Who in their right mind would kick a dyke off their basketball team and still expect to win?

• Kanye West has blasted homophobic hip-hop lyrics, but how does he feel about his music appearing on a gay TV show? Well, that's another story.

• Ohio plans to open a museum documenting the history of gays in the Buckeye State. And we thought museums couldn't get any gayer than Liberace's.

The usually anti-gay hip-hop world has gone all bleeding-heart on us lately. First you have Kanye West bashing homophobia followed by Sean Paul calling for people to "free up their thinking." You'd think this was all new, but we've actually had gay-friendly hip-hop for years now in the form of Homohop (yes, it's exactly what it sounds like).

And homohop even has had its own annual queer festival.

Over the past five years, GLBT hip-hop artists have been making the trek across the bay from San Francisco to Oakland for the PeaceOUT festival. It's three days of queer hip-hop music, spoken word and dance. Click here for more info on this year’s blowout.

Homohop has also been getting some recent play in film. A new documentary rolling out the history of the genre, Pick Up the Mic, premiered at the Toronoto film festival last month. But don't expect the lightheartedness of Truth or Dare. It tackles "homophobia, gender identification issues, and suicide." No plans for a release date just yet.

But will homohop cross into the mainstream recruting even more warm and fuzzies from haters like, say, Eminem? It's safe to say he'll use the word "faggot" on his next album but not the way homohop's Deadlee, "the faggot with a gat," will at PeaceOUT.