The Rising Tied Fort Minor

The Rising Tied Fort Minor
Remember the Name (feat. Styles of Beyond)
Right Now (feat. Black Thought of the Roots & Styles of Beyond)
Feel Like Home (feat. Styles of Beyond)
Where'd You Go (feat. Holly Brook & Jonah Matranga)
Back Home (feat. Common & Styles of Beyond)
Believe Me (feat. Bobo & Styles of Beyond)
Red to Black (feat. Kenna, Jonah Matranga & Styles of Beyond)
The Rising Tied is the debut effort from Fort Minor, the side project from Linkin Park leader Mike Shinoda. Shinoda intended the album as an outlet for his interest in hip-hop, which couldn’t always be adequately expressed within Linkin Park. Working with Jay-Z on 2004’s Collision Course album gave Shinoda the perfect in to pursue Fort Minor, which Jay-Z executive-produced. While Sean Carter himself doesn’t make an appearance, many heavy hitters do, including Common, John Legend and Black Thought. “Petrified,” “Kenji” and “Slip Out the Back” touch on the volcanic emotion of Linkin Park, but the best songs on The Rising Tied are the collaborations with underground rap crew Styles of Beyond, personal friends of Shinoda’s from way back. “Feel Like Home,” “Back Home” and “Believe Me” hold hip-hop bounce, hard-rock intensity, and storytelling virtuosity in easy balance. However, the song that best defines Shinoda’s aesthetic is “Right Now” where over a tensely layered beat Shinoda sketches a panoramic view of struggle and worry that extends from the inner-city projects to the suburbs and onto the battlefields of Iraq.
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November 22, 2005

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Breaking off into his own hip-hop universe, Linkin Park 's rapper and in-house producer Mike Shinoda presents Fort Minor, a loose side project with a steady stream of guests, yet a surprisingly personal project too that sometimes puts the listeners right in Shinoda 's shoes. On The Rising Tied, Fort Minor can strike the baller pose a little too hard and sometimes the club-minded tracks shout loud while saying nothing. Softening the blow of these standard rock-dude-doing-rap clichés is the production, with constructions that are like House of Pain meets the Crystal Method and a whole synthetic orchestra in tow. As executive producer, Jay-Z calls it during the album's intro, it's a "big sound," and as he focuses on "richness of the sound" he knows this is "something serious." Serious is something Shinoda excels at and The Rising Tied slays when it goes epic. "Right Now" connects the hood, to the 'burbs, to Iraq effortlessly while rapidly introducing a series of lonely people that are all as stuck as Eleanor Rigby. "Where'd You Go" tugs at the heart even harder while suggesting it doesn't matter if it's war or constant business trips are keeping loved ones away from home, it just plain hurts. There's also the bleak and bitter "Kenji" which focuses on the Japanese-American internees during World War II with believable venom. Empty headed numbers like "In Stereo" ("Oh-oh/Ready for it here we go/We got the block rocking in stereo") are the kind of tracks you wouldn't want to be caught dead representing as street hip-hop when in the hood, but if it's filler when compared to the soul-searching highlights, it's damn catchy filler with lyrics innocuous enough for everyday suburban partying. On the other hand, the following "Back Home" finds Shinoda holding his own next to hip-hop hero Common and a little while later "High Road" nails the "all you haters stop playin'" track perfectly and nearly at Twista speed. Even if the album is more TRL than 106 & Park, it's only an easy target for cynical folks who haven't really listened to it. The Rising Tied is brilliant in parts, "Dre Day" here and there, but mostly unique and just as "big" as Jay-Z says it is.

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So let me explain a bit. Fort Minor is a spin off of Linkin Park. The bassist can rap so while Linkin Park wasn't doing a whole lot, this is what happened. And its pretty darn good. 1. Introduction N/A 2. Remember The Name: 5/5 I'm sure you've heard it by now, its a fantastic song with a great original chorus. 3. Right Now: 4/5 This is just a flat out solid song. Nothing really great about it, but nothing bad about it. Its one you'll listen to a few times, but not one you'll listen to on a regular basis. 4. Petrified: 3/5 I'm not a big fan. The hook is lame. The beat is lazy. Just not a great song. 5. Feel Like Home: 5/5 One of the better songs on the album without a doubt. The hook is great and the beat is awesome. 6. Where'd You Go: 5/5 This is one that should of and probably was played on the radio like crazy when it first came out, absolutely fantastic song. One that you will want to listen to over and over. 7. In Stereo: 3/5 Again, a swing and a miss by Shinoda. Lazy beat makes it a forgetful song. The hook is okay though. 8. Back Home: 3/5 This is the part we're kind of in the dry part of the CD, the CD could of done without it. 9. Cigarettes: 4/5 I'm not sure what to make of this song. Its kind of making fun of rap these days. I don't know, its okay. Not Great. 10. Believe Me: 5/5 I love this song. The hook is great. The beat is also great. One you'll want to listen to quite a few times. 11. Get Me Gone: N/A 12. High Road: 5/5 John Legend does a fantastic job in this track. The beat is awesome, it makes one of the top tracks in the CD. 13. Kenji: 5/5 Freakin' Unbelievable. Without a doubt my favorite song on the CD. It tells a heart wrenching story about a Japanese person that lived in the US when Pearl Harbor Happened. I absolutely love this song. I actually think this has the best beat of any of the songs on the album. Download this one now. 14. Red To Black: 4/5 With a little help from his Linkin' Park buddies they make a solid track. Not fantastic, but its a good listen. 15. The Battle: N/A 16. Slip Out The Back: 5/5 A great way to exit the album, its got a sweet beat, everything is good, great hook. I love it. This is a CD you need to listen to. Its a Rap CD without all the crap usually found in rap CDs now a days. Must Have Songs: (In order) 1. Kenji 2. Were'd You Go 3. Remember The Name 4. Believe Me 5. Slip Out The Back 6. High Road Thats why this CD gets a final score of: 8.5/10

I was very skeptical about the playability of the CD and even considered immediately returning it but I chose to give it a play and was surprised there were no skips. I might buy more frome this seller

It's Mike Shinoda. Need i say more?

Lost this album a long time ago, finally replaced happy to have it again

I admit, I bought this album thinking there was going to be a linkin vibe kind of revamp ( a bit like that album where they collaborated with many great hip hop artists) and was a bit weary of the whole thing, but then again im glad i bought this cd. I dont particularly like Shinoda's style but he definatly has put his end into this project. My only beef is the production is not what you would expect of a typical hip hop album, almost electronicesque feel with the sub's and kicks but then again i guess that's the linkin park feel or influence, it grows on you. Not the greatest album but something I will listen to every now and then. I am really impressed with Shinoda's effort and cant wait to hear if fort minor puts out another album to see the growth and change from this one. Onto something good here... dont let it slip!

I bought this CD mainly because of "Remember the Name", but to my big surprise, I liked all the other tracks too. To be able to listen to an entire CD without skipping, because you don't like one or more songs, is a very rare thing indeed, especially nowadays. Yet this is what happened. I enjoy all of them! Some of the songs are very powerful with beautiful, meaningful lyrics. I love the idea of hip hop with a message, it rarely happens. The song "Cigarettes" even deals with that topic, the "guns, drugs and misogyny" of most of the hip hop lyrics, that don't mean anything and are sometimes just plain ugly. These guys are for real! This is so much better than anything else I've heard in a long time. The beats and the piano accents are out of this world. Excellent listening! I'm eagerly awaiting the next Fort Minor production!

That's a broad statement, but coming from a guy who listens to all styles of music but stays away from most modern rap, it makes sense. Now, OK, it might be biased that I do like Linkin Park, and checked the CD out based on the fact that Mike Shinoda was the main person in the group, but that doesn't mean that I went in expecting an LP CD. In fact, I'm glad it's not, this CD is a break from the nu-metal that Mike's been doing for the last decade. Anyway into the review. The beats on here are excellent. Yes similar to something Hahn would put in an LP song. The raps are awesome. This guy is very talented. He can make a biting angry song (Cigarette, Petrified) one minute and a sad song (Where'd You Go?) t
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