Who are in your CD or mp3 player right now? It’s a big group, because I thought that’s the only way to bring the music to life on stage. It’s me, Ryu, Tak, and Cheapshot from Styles Of Beyond, a drummer, three string players, and three backup vocalists. What can we look forward to in your coming concert? Any special guests? Plus it’s good experience for me as a producer. What is most enjoyable about collaborating with different people?Įveryone’s studio approach is a little different. So, from Common and Black Thought and Jay-Z to Styles Of Beyond and Holly Brook, I chose to work with the friends that I thought the song called for. I thought that since it’s such a personal album and the concept is so specific, working with people who don’t know me might mess it up. I worked only with people I already knew on this album. Why did you choose to work with different guest artists for Fort Minor’s first album? A song like “Kenji” in Fort Minor’s first album The Rising Tied, which is about my family being interned during WWII in the US, would have been inappropriate on a Linkin Park album, because the rest of theīand can’t stand behind it-it didn’t happen to their families. What can you do with Fort Minor that you can’t with Linkin Park?įort Minor is more of an individualized personal thing. Lyrically, I tried to tackle themes that were a little less common than most hip hop out there, as an alternative to the topics revolving around guns, money, girls, and drugs. I like to call the music “organic.” A lot of hip hop right now is based on rigid keyboard parts, so I wanted to base the album on hand-played instruments. The new Linkin Park album will be out this year. I know it would be great press for me to say “yes” because of the scandal, but unfortunately the answer is no! In fact, I’m writing new music for the next album in the bus while I’m on tour with Fort Minor.

All it takes is for a person to give the music a chance-listen to some songs-and he’ll understand.Īre you going to break away from Linkin Park? Fort Minor is a wholly unique project, and is different from Linkin Park. But I hope that through the music I put out, people realize that I can’t be defined by labels. I can’t change that, so I won’t fight it. Some people simply referred to you as “the guy from Linkin Park.” Do you try to break away from this label? If so, how? After making beats and rapping for several years, I started Linkin Park with a couple of my friends, one of them being Brad Delson, our guitarist. I studied piano for about 10 years, then got into keyboard and hip hop production. Krwlng (Mike Shinoda Reanimation) Song MP3 Krwlng (feat.Okay, first off, how did you get into music?

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