The Rising Tied

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Template:Infobox album The Rising Tied is the first, and to date only, studio album from Mike Shinoda’s side project Fort Minor. The album was released on November 22, 2005 through Warner Bros. Records and Mike's label Machine Shop Recordings. To promote the album, Mike also released a mixtape We Major which featured some of the guests that appeared on The Rising Tied as well as other friends of his.

The album produced four singles with "Remember The Name", "Petrified", "Believe Me", and "Where'd You Go".

Background

In February 2005, Questlove of The Roots said Mike was working on a solo album. In a March 4, 2005 interview with MTV, Mike confirmed that he was producing a hip hop album of his own with guests that include but are not limited to Black Thought of The Roots and Common. "I'm trying to get the music up to what we want it to be. It's pressure, because I'm producing it. I want to connect with people I see eye-to-eye with, and make great music. Like I said, it's not really about me." He also added, "It's not straight hip-hop, but it's not rock at all. For our fans who only like the rock side of Linkin Park, I hope you enjoy it, but you never know."

Mike created a website and forum for fans and artists to post on, and he joined in regularly. A summer 2005 post read, "FM is in no way an indicator that LP is breaking up. LP is fine, in fact we have been talking recently about new music. talk to you soon!"

A June 14, 2005 coded message on Fort Minor’s website read, "The debut fort minor album is entitled the rising tied in an effort to get back to his hip hop roots. mike wrote and played virtually every note on the album. the album features a group of his friends in the hip hop community.”

In an October 9, 2005 interview with All Hip Hop, Mike said, "Mr. Hahn, our DJ, is on a track called "Slip Out The Back." And since we're putting this out on our label, Machine Shop Records, I got to choose our guitarist, Brad Delson, as my A&R. The name "The Rising Tied," is basically a play on words: this "tied" group of people is coming up together on this album."

Writing and Recording

Mike created the beats himself, only using a sample from Apple’s GarageBand for "Believe Me". The album was recorded at Mike’s home studio (commonly referred to in LPTV episodes and album liner notes as The Stockroom) and at NRG, where Hybrid Theory and Meteora were recorded (as well as later Linkin Park albums and songs).

As far as guests go, he brought in a lot of friends like Styles of Beyond, which he had an extended relationship with for over eight years prior. In an April 18, 2005 interview with MTV, Mike said, "Their producer helped me buy my first sampler. I've known these guys forever, and for me to be able to come back and put them on [Linkin Park's] label, Machine Shop Records, it's a good feeling. You can tell on the song "Remember The Name" [that] we were having fun with it and being able to brag on it." Eric Bobo from Cypress Hill, another good friend of Mike’s, recorded Latin percussion on "Believe Me". David Campbell, known for his work on Linkin Park’s Meteora with "Breaking The Habit", arranged strings for "Remember The Name", "Feel Like Home", "Cigarettes", and "Slip Out The Back". Additionally, Mike had a choir featured on "Where’d You Go", "Cigarettes", "Kenji", and "Slip Out The Back".

Other guests included John Legend, Common, Black Thought of The Roots, Lupe Fiasco, Holly Brook, Jonah Matranga, Lupe Fiasco, Sixx John, and Celph Titled. Finally, Joe Hahn from Linkin Park was featured on "Slip Out The Back". There was an early rumor that Kanye West was going to be on the album, from the Styles Of Beyond label Spytech Records who said, "S.O.B. has also been working on their first major label appearance, “ FORT MINOR ” which features Mike Shinoda ( Linkin Park ), Common, Black Thought (The Roots), Kanye West, Kenna, and more. And catch this…the album is executive produced by none other than (drum roll please) JAY-Z! This is definitely one album that you're not going to wanna sleep on. Fort Minor is slated to drop Summer 2005." DJ Cheapshot denied that rumor himself in May 2005.

At the end of the process, Mike asked Jay-Z to be the executive producer of the album and invited Brad Delson, Linkin Park’s guitarist, to serve as A&R. Together, the three of them listened to all of the songs and voted on which songs made the album. This can be seen in the album DVD with Mike saying the only two songs he 100% had to have on the album were "Kenji", about his Japanese family being interned during World War II, and "Where’d You Go", written about his wife Anna.

Composition

Mike produced the album himself but asked Jay-Z, who collaborated with Linkin Park on 2004’s Collision Course EP, to serve as the executive producer for the album. Mike also had Linkin Park’s guitarist Brad Delson, who gave Mike his old nickname “The Glue”, help with the project as the album’s A&R.

On The Rising Tied, Mike asked some of his longtime friends to join him in the recording process. Local LA rap group Styles Of Beyond, who Mike knew for over six years, ended up being featured on six songs. Other guests included Jonah Matranga, Holly Brook, Linkin Park’s own Joe Hahn, and hip hop artists Common, John Legend, Black Thought, Lupe Fiasco, Kenna, Eric Bobo from Cypress Hill, Sixx John, and Celph Titled.

Releases

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Digital

Track Listing

Standard Edition

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1 Introduction Shinoda Michael Kenji 0:43
2 Remember The Name Bashir Takbir, Maginn Ryan, Shinoda 3:50
3 Right Now Bashir, Maginn, Shinoda, Trotter Tariq 4:14
4 Petrified Shinoda 3:40
5 Feel Like Home Bashir, Maginn, Shinoda 3:53
6 Where'd You Go Shinoda 3:51
7 In Stereo Shinoda 3:29
8 Back Home Bashir, Lynn Lonnie Rashid, Maginn, Shinoda 3:44
9 Cigarettes Shinoda 3:39
10 Believe Me Bashir, Maginn, Shinoda 3:42
11 Get Me Gone Shinoda 1:56
12 High Road Shinoda 3:16
13 Kenji Shinoda 3:51
14 Red To Black Bashir, Maginn, Shinoda 3:11
15 The Battle Shinoda 0:32
16 Slip Out The Back Hahn Joseph, Shinoda 3:57

Special Edition

No. Title Writer(s) Length
17 [Silence] 0:04
18 [Silence] 0:04
19 Be Somebody Shinoda, Jaco Wasalu 3:15
20 There They Go Shinoda, John Sixx 3:17
21 The Hard Way Shinoda 3:54

Tour Edition

No. Title Writer(s) Length
17 Petrified (Los Angeles Remix) Shinoda 3:32

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