You can’t really enjoy this unless you’ve heard the original. It doesn’t match up the originals big beats, but makes Shinoda seem much more… diverse in his sarcastic humor. And guess what? This version has a remix and I can’t call it anything but decent. Falling away from the bonus tracks for a second, you’ll be unhappy to know that the god-awful Petrified is still here. The only credible moment on the song is the breakdown point at the bridge, where Sixx and Mike command “we got this place rocking, beat knocking, non-stoppin’”. The Latin strings accompanying a hardened beat doesn’t flow into each other, and in the end sounds like a LP/JZ mash-up. There They Go features underground rapper Sixx John, and a beat that lacks Shinoda’s touch of magic. While a couple of the featured tracks are excellent, the other couple don’t exactly impress. Fans will love the new additions, but others will regard it as a waste of time… respectively. You can still expect great production work and flow on the original tracks, like Remember The Name, Where’d You Go and Slip Out The Back. But Kenna’s chorus is what really makes it such a success. The lyrics talk of hate in the community, and issues left unsolved with family. Unfortunately, Shinoda doesn’t stray too far in lyrics from his days with Linkin Park, and seeing as Fort Minor is a break from it, this doesn’t surprise me. It features the pop/rock vocals of Kenna, who does a superb job on the chorus, and like Lupe Fiasco, was never really noticed until later album releases. The Hard Way is the second bonus track to really shock. He never really break out until mid-2006, but his style overshadowed Mike’s completely. Shinoda drops two verses, but Fiasco’s flow really shocked me. Lupe Fiasco teams up with Holly Brook on Be Somebody, a song that suggests the same topic as the title. The beats continue to pump in fashion, MC’s Shinoda and Styles of Beyond duet continue to murder rhymes one line at a time and Jay-Z continues his glory road in the executive production office.Īpart from the singles, which weren’t as poorly chosen as some might say, the bonus tracks featured are superb. What makes the Tour Edition so different to the original? Nothing at all. Critics saw room for error, fanboys saw room for a new poster on their wall and I saw room for megabytes on my hard drive. The Tour Edition, however, included a few new tracks. Although fairly positive, some reviews pointed out Shinoda’s faults and turned it into what critics love doing best to Linkin Park. Late 2005, The Rising Tied was released to little critical reception. What Fort Minor also did is bring out the almost hidden hip-hop side of Linkin Park, always shifting in formulas and style. The side project later started, and Fort Minor became one of those household names all fanboys love to stand up for. He brought out the group’s MC, Mike Shinoda, to a level that is only (ironically) matched by himself. Surprisingly, Jay did a little more than drag out a Grammy Award with them. Fort Minor first burst onto the scene in 2005, shortly after Linkin Park rested in the wake of a mediocre collaboration with Jay-Z.
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