Mic

Mic
SongLinkin Park
Length:	4:25
Stems:	Akai MPC 1000
Tempo:	100
Producer:	Mike Shinoda

"Mic" was a demo created during the period leading up to the Hybrid Theory sessions. It was leaked online in June 2019. The song uses a Macintosh voice called Zarvox which was introduced in 1995 with the MacinTalk 3 text-to-speech component.

Background

Mike's first computer was an Apple as he explained on his blog. He wrote, "In college, I was reintroduced to Apple in a new way. Having spent years honing my skills drawing and painting, I hadn’t yet had the chance to bring those illustrations into the computer. At Art Center, there was a computer lab–a huge underground complex of rooms filled with computers. And the computer of choice for the designers and artists at Art Center was Apple. I loved the design, inside and out, and it seemed built for making art. And once it was my computer for art, it became my computer for music."

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Mic	Hybrid Party Of A Thousand Things	4:25			Released on LPLive for free download on August 5, 2019.

Lyrics

Album Version

Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Phone)

Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Phone)

Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Phone)

Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Give me the mic)
Give me the microphone
(Phone)