Mike Shinoda Was Almost Replaced on "In The End" & Kicked Out of Linkin Park? 

He’s def loved his life the way he wants to fr!

Because he is

He just has that chill ass dude cool guy vibe that I strive for.

That's why he's not just a rockstar but legend

@@tsukkikei571 Yeah he’s the only one who can rock a rhyme like this

Get me Gone is amazing. I always just wished it was longer, but I guess we can be thankfull that it ain't.

Ayo they tried to put him in a cowboy hat 😂

@@chrishernandez2490 I think they wanted joe to wear that, nevertheless hilarious 😂

@@cdbtheclaw that entire record is just perfect

I remember waiting in the line for his album and waiting for the premiere of his first single, yes I'm that old

“It worked” = one of the most successful albums of all time

Super friendly poppin fresh style of rap like will smith

Y'know it takes 10 percent luck

Jay Z colabs with you, you've been recognized

A lot of people (myself included) realized when the demo version of In The End dropped, that Mike has always been a top-tier rapper. But even more than that, he's been a top-tier songwriter and bandmate, which is why he dialed back his rap parts and severely simplified them in the final version of In The End, because that fits the song better. It's a similar story in many of the other demo songs, but to me on In The End it stands out the most.

People can say whatever they can but man mike is the one of the greatest rapper on earth. He is the frontman of linkin park🔥🔥🔥 Remember the time when everyone was tripping on hybrid theory songs when it was released back then. No band has ever done that since then.

Im reminded of what Zappa once said about the state of affairs in the music industry... where it shouñd be in good habds, because these guys grew up being fans of great music. But it boggles his mind how it's in worse hands of fans, than the bean counting suits before. "At least the suits were willing to throw something at the wall to see if it stuck."

The studio interfered so much on Evanescence. On the song Bring Me to Life, the male singing in it was added by the studio after the song was already recorded because the studio thought it wouldn’t sell without a man in it.

Korn is also pretty introspective and they tackle mental issues quite a bit. Limp Bizkit though is perfectly described as frat rock.

@@Gyokan7 Korn also did the I am gonna kick your ass thing. Right now is a good example. Limp bizkit was more on the surface level. Right now basically is break stuff only angrier.

"reggae" like SiM

Me design dis rhyme to explain me do time

Fort Minor "Get Me Gone" 😤

Cant read this without the music in my head hehehehe

Seriously. It would take an exceptionally creative-minded individual to make this stuff up. But it's real.

What are some of the best demo stuff as far as lyrics? I’m curious to check it out

@@alexandrefurneribeiro3265 same

​@@alexandrefurneribeiro3265 In The End demo, Reading My Eyes, Fuse.. latter two are Xero demos.. pre Chester

I'd say High Voltage, Slip, Part of Me, Carousel (don't know if was on LPU though).

Check out "dedicated" and "step up" two old diamonds showing of mikes skill

Lmao what a joke

You know he got caught with Chester's wife doing it in a closet of his own house on his birthday with his entire family there right? Mike was supposed to be his best friend so it's no wonder he unalived himself 😂

@@carbon-based-lifeform9172 those claims are rooted in nothingness. Stop talking out ur ass as if you knew them.

@@carbon-based-lifeform9172what tf kind of bullshit is that

Yeah after seeing them from the start of LP to the unfortunate finish I can't see them being a band anymore it's never going to be the same and it would be a huge huge task for the new singer just to cope with the whole thing. It was a privilege to be able to experience their rise from being called Hybrid Theory then them changing the name to LP because of the Lincoln Park and all, I only saw them once and I have to be honest it wasn't the best live gig I was on i was kind of disappointed but I get it it was so fu¢King cold and it was like June and man it was freezing and it was a outside gig the sound was terrible and you can see they were tired after South America tour, then I was supposed to see them and my another favourite band P.O.D in Warsaw in Polish state/country of Europe but they cancelled and that was it, man sometimes people are complaining and I'm the same i do complain but what a privilege it was to see all the bands from 90s and early 00s live, Deftones, Staind, Limp Bizkit, Korn, System of the down, Blink 182 just after they got back together , iLL ninio and that was probably one of the best because venue was cancelled but they were so cool that they booked the voodoo bar and played in the small pub that most of bands only starting at and because I knew security guys I was able to stay with them and we drinked to the early morning then they got on the tour bus , Twin Atlantic just on top of my head. I just wish to anyone to see all their favourite bands at least once it is worth it and don't record with your phone just enjoy it like we did back in a day.

Not really. Record and studio executives are risk averse, but they're not stupid. You see someone like Linkin Park doing things differently and getting wild success and it's like "These suits don't know what they're doing, you gotta take chances!" Problem is, you don't see the thousands of other artists who also wanted to and were allowed to take chances. Because you never heard of them. Because they failed. An artist doing what everyone else is doing is more likely to get *some* success. A fresh idea has a chance of being the Next Big Thing, but that chance is so much smaller than people realise having only seen the success stories. It's a huge gamble.

"In the end, it doesn't even matter." "Yeah mon."

I guess it'd be like the reanimation version and the rick rubin altnc merged but 100x worse

@@Xenuos lol or 100x better...

​@@ALEN1ful they never recorded it I bet 🤣

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but thats actually dope lyrics

@@krillinsindahouse1898 You're fun, bet everyone loves your company.

​@@Colin-jm8sk are you being sarcastic?

@@krillinsindahouse1898 Ah, intelligent also.

Fort Minor - "Get Me Gone"

NF raps about real emotions and issues, if you haven't heard of him.

"toxic masculine" 🤣

Mike is an awesome rapper!!! ❤️‍🔥 🤘

@@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro 🤣🤣🤣

Mike is so much more than “the rapper in LP”. That’s an insult. Mike makes LP go. Collision Course and Reanimation were both prob 90% Mike. Not to mention the keyboards, pianos and guitars he plays.

Well not everything, lol. He did most of it yes, but Chester did some too, and they also did quite a bit of co-writing together aswell. Brad even got more involved with the writing in their last album.

No. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Yeah you could say the guy really Blue it lol

@@Xeroforte Yeeeeppp 😅

It's silly how many people think that all lead singers must have created 100% of the words that they sing just because they're lead singers.

He flat out out admitted he bullied Mike in that book.

Yeah during Hybrid the label wanted to get rid of Mike's rapping and have Chester as the face/voice of the band as his. They even met Chester in secret and told him this. Chester told them to go f*ck yourselves and how it wasn't HIS band. He left that meeting and went to Mike and the guys right away and told them what had just happened and on what he said to them. That was the moment that solidified their bond as brothers. That's when all 6 members of the band knew in that moment they had each others backs 100% no matter what. Especially with Mike and Chester, they admired, supported, and were protective over each other. They always thought of themselves as a wild card, they loved expermenting with different genre/styles, and making music that has meaning and people can relate the message to wheather its on a personal level or whats going on in the world. They have always been open and honest on what they were going to do so they wouldn't mislead anyone.They are not like other bands. Never have they've always been unique. They do things that THEY want to do and not what others want them to be. After the label realized the success off of their 1st album after all the BS, the label wanted them to keep doing the same thing as before, and thats not what they wanted. So, they broke out of that very quickly, the label finally backed off of them during Meteora and let them do things their own way by doing it independently with just a little bit of guidance from Rick Ruben. Mike/Brad produced their music, Mike/Chester wrote the songs and then Brad got more involved with the writing in their last album, Mike /Joe came up with art ideas for their albums, Joe also directed majority of their music videos, Mike/Joe came up with set designs/visuals on how they want the stages to be on tour, Mike also did the band merchandise and created their web design. They did EVERYTHING that THEY WANTED to do. If anything, "Linkin Park" is its own genre. They were a very special different kind of band and did it by their own rules. Thats what I love about this band and the chemistry that they have. All 6 of them were/are very talented in many different things and each of them had something to contribute to the band.

He's not working anymore 😂🤣 Mike just won't throw shade lmao

Yup, even Chester had said it MANY MANY times. That's one of the things that I love about Mike and Chester with their brotherly bond they never bragged about themselves. Instead, Chester is the one that tells others on how amazing Mike is in literally everything that he does for the band, his creativity and as a human, and Mike always did the same with Chester about his impressive range of vocals, his passion and also as a human. Chester was the one who pushed Mike out of his comfort zone to also sing more than just doing the rap stuff so he could do both. Because he really loved Mike's singing voice. Mike once said that he couldn't believe that Chester of all people thought that he had a good singing voice and how he loved his vocals and felt very honored by that. He considered Chester as the best vocalist in their time and that he would challenge anyone to try to sing against Chester, lol. In one of the interviews that Mike did for the "OML" album, he told them how he was doing less rapping but doing more singing. He told them how it couldn't be any better because "I get to sing 7 days a week next to Chester who is the best vocal coach" and instead of talking about how good he sounded on it. Instead, he tells them on how blown away they will all be by Chester's singing in the "One More Light" album. Because (outside of his band, friends, family, and some of the fans) not many have really heard his actual singing voice like he did with the cover of "Rolling in the Deep."

Yeah, Linkin Park really wouldn't have had any effect at all on the world of music if they catered to what the label wanted, more than likely. Weird to think about that alternate reality.

I remember Tom Morello saying in a interview that at the beginning when Rage got signed that a record exec told them the band was good but they needed to get rid of the ''rap thing''. And he told at the end that when the interview was over they were about to yet meet again with the same major label exec to see if he had the same opinion, after RATM have sold millions already. Just to rub it in his face haha

Probably because they were different from those bands. Emotionally, sonically, lyrically.

Yep

Yep

Jeff blue