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| | #REDIRECT [[Freestyle (Trek Life Song)]] |
| | Name = Freestyle Audio-Live & Amad Jamal
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| | Artist = Trek Life
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| | Album = Keep The Receipt
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| | Cover = Mixtape-Keep The Receipt.jpg
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| | Released = September 18, 2005
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| | Format = Digital
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| | Length = 2:49
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| | Producer = Kevin Sakoda
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| | Misc = {{Extra track listing
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| | Album = Keep The Receipt
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| | Type = mixtape
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| | Tracks =
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| # All Times
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| # Soul Elevation ("Got Luv" Timeless Remix) feat. Taquan
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| # [[Freestyle feat. Audio-Live & Amad Jamal (Intro by Mike Shinoda)]] | |
| # DJ Primetime Freestyle (Intro by Champ MC)
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| # Big Picture
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| # Mind Right
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| # Hard Work
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| # Freestyle feat. Mykestro
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| # Get It feat. Silo (Intro by Bishop Lamont)
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| # Crazy Heat feat. Planet Asia & Spontaneous
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| # Doin Em Wrong
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| # I'm Gone
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| # Maintain Excellence (Intro by Just Beats)
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| # Hold Me Down feat. Champ & Kes
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| # Talk Trek & Beyond Interlude 1
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| # Hard Work Kev Sakoda Remix
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| # Simple (Maintain Excellence Pt 2) (Intro by Crush One & Blest)
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| # We Still Here feat. Silo (Intro by John)
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| # Brand New (Intro by Silo)
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| # Talk Trek & Beyond Interlude 2
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| # Intelligence As A Threat feat. Silo & Aloe Blacc (Intro by Aloe Blacc)
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| # Move.Meant ("Good Money" Remix) feat. Angie Stoned
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| # One Idea
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| # Talk Trek & Beyond Interlude 3
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| # Never Again
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| # Champs Hateration Outro
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| "Freestyle" is the third track on the 2005 mixtape ''Keep The Receipt'' by West Coast rapper Trek Life. The song is a freestyle featuring rappers Audio-Live (credited as A-Life) and Amad Jamal. It starts with a voicemail recorded by Mike Shinoda.
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| ==Background==
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| Trek Life was in Mike Shinoda's "Watchlist" from March 2005.<ref>[https://www.lpassociation.com/forum/threads/got-news.24532/page-33#post-335356 Got News? | Page 33 | LP Association Forums], March 28, 2005</ref> In October he gave Trek Life a shout out during an interview to HipHopSite.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051029020852/http://fortminor.co.uk/ Fort Minor Unofficial, For All the Latest Fort Minor News and Updates], October 27, 2005</ref> Trek Life had recently released a mixtape called ''Keep The Receipt'' which was available at his MySpace.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051227040717/http://forums.fortminor.com/showthread.php?t=7020 Fort Minor - Mike shinoda shouts out on trek life's myspace], October 25, 2005</ref> The mixtape was arranged and mixed by Kevin Sakoda (credited as Kev Sakoda) who also produced multiple tracks for Trek Life, including "Freestyle". He worked in marketing for Warner Bros. Records until 2004 and was involved with Linkin Park since ''[[Hybrid Theory]]''.
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| ==Versions==
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| Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.
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| | Freestyle Audio-Live & Amad Jamal
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| | ''Keep The Receipt''
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| | 2:49
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| | 2005
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| | September 18, 2005
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| *Features vocals by Mike Shinoda, Audio-Live, Amad Jamal.
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| ==Lyrics==
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| <poem>
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| What up ladies and gentlemen. You are tuned into the sounds of Trek Life, working hard over here in the city of angels. My name is Mike Shinoda, I'm coming at you straight out of Fort Minor. Big shoutout to my man Kevin Sakoda. Kev, keep the receipt big boy, peace!
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| </poem>
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| ==External Links==
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| Mixtape download: [https://treklife.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-receipt Bandcamp]
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Mike Shinoda Discography]][[Category:Mike Shinoda Songs]]
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