LINKIN PARK _.-°-._ LiNkIn PaRk _.-°-._ lInKiN pArK _.-°-._ THe Zik n#1 (v. 2)

le nouvo look de brad... tro moche ness po? mdr

hum... il semblerait d'apres le NY daily news que chester serait bientot papa d'un enfant de talinda....

Linkin Park front man Chester Bennington hosted another pool party at Cain, but the rest of his evening didn't go as swimmingly. The rocker blasted a Mansion nightclub bodyguard, alleging that the security man had shoved his pregnant girlfriend.

alors? réactions? perso je trouve que c'est beaucoup tro tot sa fait que 4 mois qu'ils sont ensembles alors que pour sam il a attendu plusieurs années...

L'album de Fort Minor sortira le 22 novembre, c'est sûr et certain!! C'est le magazine Rolling Stones qui nous en informe officiellement!

L'interview est dispo => iCi <= (à noter que c'est cette image qui a été donnée lors des M&G pour la faire dédicasser...). Je ferai la traduction le plus tôt possible mais en attendant, je la mets dans la partie appropriée ;-)

Un petit résumé cependant :
- donc, l'album sortira le 22 novembre
- la chanson "Kenji" parle du conflit entre les USA et la Japon après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale
- la chanson "Believe Me" rend hommage aux chanteurs de hip-hop de New York
- la chanson "Get Me Gone" sera au sujet des rumeurs circulant sur le net à propos de Linkin Park à cause de la mauvaise interprétation des journalistes, ce qui explique pourquoi Mike ne donne d'interview que par mail.



Shinoda's Fit to Be Tied
Linkin Park emcee readies Fort Minor November debut with Common, Legend

Linkin Park emcee/producer Mike Shinoda will become the first member of the multi-platinum act to release a solo album when he unveils his debut, as Fort Minor, on November 22nd. Shinoda says the album, The Rising Tied, is an opportunity for him to get back to his roots of making hip-hop beats in his room.
Rising features diverse guest appearances from Common, on the stylish "Back Home", the Roots' Black Thought, John Legend and Linkin DJ Joe Hahn, as well as Ethiopian-born alt-funk rocker Kenna and two acts signed to Linkin's Machine Shop Records, hip-hop duo Styles of Beyond and singer Holly Brooke. The album runs a gamut of topics and styles - from the poignant "Kenji", about the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II (with vocal samples by Shinoda's father and aunt), to the possible lead single, "Believe Me", whose beat pays homage to New York hip-hoppers Boogie Down Productions and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Rolling Stone speaks via phone with the rapper from Paris while he wraps up a brief European tour and prepares to head to Miami for the MTV Video Music Awards, which he helped score.

As a producer and a musician, how exciting was it for you to have this opportunity to collaborate with different artists?
This record was really about having fun and doing things that were kind of just for me. I wanted to work with friends, people that I saw eye to eye with, and I wanted to write and play every note if I could. I wrote every note, produced and mixed every song -- but I did bring in a choir and a string group at one point.
The album is a product of this anxiousness that I've had: I wanted to hear something different in hip-hop. If you read any hip-hop magazine, you'll see a letter from a kid that says, "Why do we have the same people on the cover every month? Why do we have the exact same song style on every album?" The kids are saying, "I want something new." And if I wasn't making music, I'd be the kid writing into the magazine saying the exact same thing. I like what's out there, but I like variety as well. I've been waiting for somebody to make an organic hip-hop album that doesn't rely so much on keyboards and sequencing and that has some songwriting in it, some musicianship. And I figured, "I know how to do that. I should just make it myself."

What was the timeline for working on the record?
I started out two years ago, just toying with the songs, just experimenting. I started with the idea that I wanted to get back to my roots and what I do in hip-hop. I hadn't made a strictly hip-hop song for probably about seven years just for myself -- because that's what I did before Linkin Park, I just made rap music. I made beats for my friends; I swapped beats with guys like Styles of Beyond, who lived in the neighborhood near me. Ryu and I actually did a couple of tracks back in, like, '95, and I wanted to get back to that. And funny enough, I ran into those guys at about that time and started just throwing around ideas about doing songs with them. The more I wrote and played songs for people, the more serious the album got. And eventually I went from playing it for friends to playing it for people like [the Roots emcee] Black Thought and Kenna, who then got on songs.

How excited are you to have the record finally coming out?
Everything is great, man. I've had this record in my hands just about finished for about three months now -- I've had to sit on it, waiting to play it for people. I can't tell you how excited I am to finally get it out there.

How are the live shows over in Europe going?
It's really interesting being with a new group of guys. The Fort Minor band is me, three members of Styles of Beyond and a drummer named Beat Down. We're still getting used to the material and being together on stage. And most of these are festival dates, which means we're playing in front of crowds that are anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 people -- that's a lot for these guys. They've never really consistently played in front of this many people. They're loving it.

On one of the new tracks, "Get Me Gone," there are some pointed messages to Linkin's critics. I have to ask, is it true you usually don't do interviews other than via email?
I do my best to try and just do interviews via email because I've had so many experiences where people have kind of minced my words. I just want an accountability on the other person's end for taking down what I'm saying accurately. I'm careful with my words and to kind of assume that I meant something similar to what I said isn't really fair.

What's been the overall response to the record thus far?
I've been actually surprised the response has been as positive as it has been --particularly on the Internet -- because people have a preconception about what I would do on my own, being a member of Linkin Park. You gotta step outside of the box. There's cursing on the record; there are different kinds of topics, entirely different vibes; there's no distorted guitar. But I obviously wouldn't have done the album unless the other guys gave their blessing.

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L'album The Rising Tied sortira courant novembre 2005.



source : newsletter Fort Minor

vous pouvez téléchargé la version officielle de Remember The Name (de Rising Tied, Fort Minor !!) => iCi <=

et voila les paroles officielles (trouvées sur le forum de FM) et je ferais la trad quand j'aurai le temps mdr

You ready? Lets go!
Yeah, for those of you that want to know what we're all about
It's like this y'all (c'mon!)

It's just ten percent luck,
Twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure,
Fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

Mike
He doesn't need his name up in lights
He just wants to be heard whether it's the beat or the mic
He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him
But fuck em'
He knows the code:
It's not about the salary
It's about reality and making some noise
Makin the story
Makin sure his clique stays up
That means when he puts it down Tak's pickin it up!

Who the hell is he anyway?
He never really talks much
Never concerned with status but still leavin them star struck
Humbled through opportunities given to him despite the fact
That many misjudge him because he makes a livin from writin raps
Put it together himself, now the picture connects
Never askin for someone's help, to get some respect
He's only focused on what he wrote, his will is beyond reach
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist

It's just twenty percent skill
Eighty percent fear
Be one hundred percent clear cause Ryu is ill
Who would've thought that he'd be the one to set the west in flames
And I heard him wreckin with The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game"
Came back dropped Megadef, took em to church
I'm like bleach man, why you have the stupidest verse?
This dude is the truth, now everybody be givin him guest spots
His stock's through the roof I heard he fuckin with S-Dot!

It's just ten percent luck,
Twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure,
Fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

They call him Ryu the sick
And he's spittin fire with Mike
Got him out the dryer he's hot
Found him in Fort Minor with Tak
Been a fuckin annihilist porcupine
He's a prick, he's a cock
The type woman want to be with
And rappers hope he get shot
Eight years in the makin
Patiently waitin to blow
Now the record with shinoda's takin over the globe
He's got a partner in crime his shit is equally dope
You wont believe the kind of shit that comes out of this kid's throat

Tak
He's not your everyday on the block
He knows how to work with wood
He's god makin his way to the top
People think its a common owners name
People keep askin him was it given at birth,
Or does it stand for an acronym?
No he's livin proof,
Got him rockin the booth
He'll get you buzzin quicker than a shot of vodka with juice
Him and his crew are known around as one of the best
Dedicated to what they doin give a 100%

Forget Mike
Nobody really knows how or why he works so hard
It seems like he's never got time
Because he writes every note and he writes every line
And I've seen him at work when that light goes on in his mind
It's like a design is written in his head every time
Before he even touches a key or speaks in a rhyme
And those motherfuckers he runs with, those kids that he signed?
Ridiculous, without even trying, how do they do it?!

It's just ten percent luck,
Twenty percent skill,
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
Five percent pleasure,
Fifty percent pain,
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! (x2)

Yeah! Fort Minor!
M. Shinoda, Styles of Beyond!
Ryu, Tak here!
Machine Shop!