not a forum Linkin Park class infobox width 240px align center Archives Archive 1 Beginning Archive 2 Earlier Genre Disputes Archive 3 May 2007 February 2008 mike shinoda back up vocals it says in the style section that mike does all the backup vocals live that s almost true but phoenix sings in the little things give you away so i don t know if that s significant enough to mention but just saying it s not 100 accurate Preceding unsigned comment added by Rap metal Linkin Park is a Rap metal band not a Rap rock band It s called rap rock if rock and hip hop is mixed together but Linkin Park mixes metal and hip hop so then it s a Rap metal band Rap Metal is better known as rapcore Hence why there is no real rap metal article Actually I m not sure why someone changed it to Rap Rock in the first place I changed it back to Rapcore to avoid the redirect I changed it to Rap rock because until literally today Rapcore was a redirect to Rap rock It was reversed a few hours ago by an anon I generally prefer the term Rap rock because it s a more general term Rapcore at least in my interpretation is rap rock with hardcore punk influences making it a subgenre Anyway that s my 2 cents Why does Rap rock article seem like it should actually be called Rapcore O o Meh I ll leave that for someone else to figure out while I continue to add subtle black metal references to articles Good Day Who has changed it back to rap rock when it should be rap metal I didn t change it but I did look up the difference between the 2 just out of curiousity According to our lovely Wikipedia rap rock and rap metal quite often categorize the same genre of music If you type rap metal into the search box it automatically diverts you to rap metal so I would venture to say they are interchangeable My underlying point is this is this a battle that should be fought Look at it this way at least someone didn t change it to emo ugh Their more recent work would be classified as rap rock not rap metal which is a sub genre of rap rock Therefore it s best to use the broadest terms to describe them User Parsecboy