Hahninator
10-24-2005, 08:01 PM
Mike Shinoda interview, on hiphopsite.com.
Brought to LPF by ChesterChaz00 and I :)
By DJ ETHX
Why release your solo album now? What was your inspiration behind it?
I used to rap and produce beats before Linkin Park started. Once Linkin Park took off, I shifted the focus to that, and it wasn't until a couple years ago that I decided to really try to get back to my roots. I casually started making the songs that would become Fort Minor about two years ago, and it became more and more serious as I made more music. I would play rough songs for people, and they kept telling me that I should put the album out. After Jay-Z agreed to be the executive producer on the album, I knew it was something serious.
Did the successes of Reanimation and, more recently, Collision Course play any part in your decision to do this album?
I grew up listening to hip hop, and I guess I keep coming back to it. People who have heard those other two albums you mentioned usually tell me that this album is different from those-it has its own identity altogether. There are pretty much no distorted guitars on it. The song topics are different.
Check the full interview out HERE! (http://www.hiphopsite.com/NEWS/interviews.hhs)
Credit: FM forums, hip hop site, shinoda
Brought to LPF by ChesterChaz00 and I :)
By DJ ETHX
Why release your solo album now? What was your inspiration behind it?
I used to rap and produce beats before Linkin Park started. Once Linkin Park took off, I shifted the focus to that, and it wasn't until a couple years ago that I decided to really try to get back to my roots. I casually started making the songs that would become Fort Minor about two years ago, and it became more and more serious as I made more music. I would play rough songs for people, and they kept telling me that I should put the album out. After Jay-Z agreed to be the executive producer on the album, I knew it was something serious.
Did the successes of Reanimation and, more recently, Collision Course play any part in your decision to do this album?
I grew up listening to hip hop, and I guess I keep coming back to it. People who have heard those other two albums you mentioned usually tell me that this album is different from those-it has its own identity altogether. There are pretty much no distorted guitars on it. The song topics are different.
Check the full interview out HERE! (http://www.hiphopsite.com/NEWS/interviews.hhs)
Credit: FM forums, hip hop site, shinoda