Track Listing

1. Introduction - Fort Minor
2. Remember The Name - Fort Minor & Styles Of Beyond
3. Right Now - Fort Minor & Black Thought/Styles Of Beyond
4. Petrified - Fort Minor
5. Feel Like Home - Fort Minor & Styles Of Beyond
6. Where'd You Go - Fort Minor & Holly Brook/Jonah Matranga
7. In Stereo - Fort Minor
8. Back Home - Fort Minor & Common/Styles Of Beyond
9. Cigarettes - Fort Minor
10. Believe Me - Fort Minor & Bobo/Styles Of Beyond
11. Get Me Gone - Fort Minor
12. High Road - Fort Minor & John Legend
13. Kenji - Fort Minor
14. Red To Black - Fort Minor & Kenna/Jonah Matranga/Styles Of Beyond
15. Battle - Fort Minor & Celph Titled
16. Slip Out The Back - Fort Minor & Mr. Hahn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17094 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

CD Description
Debut album from the side project of Mike Shinoda, better known as co-vocalist in phenomenally successful nu-metallers Linkin Park. After the band collaborated with Jay-Z on the "mash-up" EP 'Collision Course', Shinoda immersed himself fully in his first love, hip-hop. Producing and playing almost every instrument on the album himself, he has assembled a team of top rappers including Common, Black Thought, Kenna andthe aforementioned Jay-Z. Includes the single 'Believe Me'.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding
I listened to this album through the MTV Leak and no words can describe how happy i am with it.

I'm a huge Linkin Park fan and was not too piped up at the thought of a rap album by Mike,but after listening to a track a few months ago i'm amazed.

This album is absoloutley amazing and i see all Mike's hard work has paid off.The lyrics are deep and thoughtful and the music is amazing.

My favourite tracks are "Kenji" which talks about Mike's families struggle when they got to the US from Japan.It's very emotional and deep.

"Red To Black" is amazing,the lyric's storyline is intresting and the music is awesome,i believe it's heavier than the rest of the tracks - more rock-ish.

"Right Now" highlights for me,how much we all take for granted.All these situations people are in all over the world right now,how often do we take time to spare a thought on other people's situations,their harship,their pain,their greif?

"Slip Out Back" is outstanding,the lyrics & music combined make it so.

There isn't a single track on this album i hate,it's brilliant.I highly suggest you order this album if you like Linkin Park/Rap/HipHop/or are just open to all kinds of music.

Mike Shinoda along with all the artists included have done an amazing job on this album.

Work of Art (Like The Album Cover)
Firstly I would like to say that this album is pushing 5 stars, but isn't quite there due to some quite poor songs, although this is made up for by the quality of the good ones.

I am not a big fan of rap myself, I only bought this album because I am quite a big fan of Linkin Park, and Mike Shinoda stars on this album and what I heard I am extremely fond of. Yes it is rap but is easy to listen to, it doesn't snap at you like most rappers, it sort of flows which I like about this album, the way the lyrics and the backing music blend together well.

The lyrics are very well written and catchy- especially kenji which really gets the listener involved in the story, (It's about WW2 and the American relationship with the Japanese- where Shinoda's family originate from)

If you want to sample a few of the songs i would recommend;
Remember The Name
Where'd You Go
Kenji
Red To Black
Out The Back

Overall Easy Listening to what ever genre is your favourite. A good Buy!

Fort Minor???
Fort Minor is Mike Shinoda's (from Linkin Park) side project. It's hard to catergorise Fort Minor, they are essentially a hip-hop group. However the use of various instruments such as a Violin would make me describe them as a Instrumental Hip-hop group. This album is very experimental and they have pulled it off.

The album has a few methodical songs such as "Get Me Gone" & "Kenji", however it still has mixture of mainstream songs mixed in. I would argue that some of the beats are fairly basic, but the rhyming flows and tells a story.

I would definetly recommend this album to Linkin Park fans, but also to hip-hop fans that enjoyed the Collision Course album by Jay-z & Linkin Park. Rising Tied doesn't have any heavy basslines or anything close to a full band playing as backing though.

Overall....an amazing album which I did not expect to be honest. Any true hip-hop or Mike Shinoda fan should definetly purchase this album. And by Hip-hop fan I don't mean poppy 50pence!