What would you like to see more on the rest of LIVING THINGS? Mike's emotional rapping (BURN IT DOWN) or Mike's tough-guy rapping (LIES GREED MISERY)? I'd like to see more of his emotional rapping.
This. The Until it Breaks rap was awesome, I like pretty much anything he does though. I remember when there was a frenzy about the whole Jamaican style of his vocal on Waiting for the End when it first came out
I think I like Shinoda's rapping best when his lyrics and his delivery are angry and violent. So ... the second one
Mike is an awesome rapper, if you listen to Faint, Waiting for the end, Burn it down and LGD, you got 4 different styles of rapping, and that's awesome
i want a papercut style rap on this album. esides that as long as the raps are good, BID and LGM im good. From the live performance of the rap of UIB, that did not sound impressive but we will see
I'm not a huge fan of his verses in either BID or LGM, they're OK but not his best. The Until it Breaks rap sounds like it's gonna be great. I'm a believer that Mike's peak as a rapper was about 1999-2002. His verses on songs like Part of Me, High Voltage, In the End Demo and the Reanimation remix, It's Goin' Down, Forgotten and FRGT-10 were just brilliant.
THIS x1,000,000. Honestly, I don't even know what he's on lately... Ever since ATS he's been trying to have this old skool / gangsta sound that really doesn't fit him... like on The Rising Tied. That never seemed good to me ... I can only think of about 10 or so songs he's been great on, and most of those are not on LP records. Most of the time, he sounds average... But he kicks ass with his genuine style on: - High Voltage - And One (ending) - It's Goin' Down - Frgt/10 - Bleed It Out - Xero Stuff - Several Demos - I Have Not Begun - Blackbirds Everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING I didn't mention (Dedicated, Hands Held High, all of HT/Meteora) is just kinda meh... Mike is incredibly talented, but he fences himself in this LP world for most of the albums until MTM. Then, he continued being outside the box, but up until ATS and forward, he's acquired this weird, white-boy style reminiscent of Fort Minor that is just... idk, cringe worthy. "Try to catch up mothafuckuuuuuh" idk man... it's just bad. On a separate note, some of his better FM verses are on the We Major mixtape (Dolla, Bloc Party, Spraypaint & Inkpens) Again, my 2 cents.
Much agreed. I was disappointed with the whole 'rapper' persona he tried to exude since 2005/2006-ish. Before meeting Jay-Z and diving into the Fort Minor project with Styles of Beyond, his signature method of rapping was defined and felt genuine. When he hopped on board with Fort Minor it is evident that the approach he took was from a standpoint of 'trying to fit in' as opposed to 'this is my own thing'. Just checkout the way he talks in the Fort Minor - Making Of video. [youtube]tdDlRLQeCAI[/youtube] For a while, Mike Shinoda even transitioned into mimicking Jay-Z's style of delivery on stage; cringe-worthy, and irritating. In review of his recent work and on-stage performances however, it sounds as though his delivery is slightly reverting back into his style of old, but not really quite there yet (positive this isn't his motive anyhow).
I prefer the Burn it Down rap style to the Until it Breaks style. I like a change of pace, but I can't deny that's how I feel overall. I wish I found this thread earlier. Dementia can attest to the fact I tried talking about this in another thread and was saying much of the same that you guys are about the rap going "too gangsta" and whatnot, and I was just called a racist lol and generally told I wasn't making sense and crap like that... Glad you guys get it. Until it Breaks is a little too hip hop, a little too Fort Minor.
Papercut It's Going Down High Voltage And One ^...when you hear these songs, you go: "how the hell did he came up with this?" Lately his rhymes are very simple with AABB rhyming structures