Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda (/ʃɪˈnoʊdə/; Japanese: 篠田 賢治, romanized: Shinoda Kenji; born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 and created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004.
== Background ==
Fiasco revealed that they first met at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party. He continued, "I told him I was a huge LP fan and I just so happened to have a bag of my mixtapes with me...which now that I think about it may have seemed a little odd...but I gave him one, we exchanged contact info and we kept in sparse contact after that. I found out from Jay-Z, another mutual friend, sometime after that Mike was putting together a solo project and that he was Co-Executive producing on it as he is doing on my album. Jay was like it would be hot if I was apart of the project and set it up and that was that..." He admitted that he was slightly intimidated at first due to Shinoda being from one of his favorite bands."Fort Minor Unofficial, Interview With Lupe Fiasco". forminor.co.uk.
In 2006, Shinoda said of Fiasco, "He's just the greatest guy. Uhm, I can't say enough about this guy. He's technically so talented, his heart is in the right place, he's entertaining, and he killed it on this song. He writes in the same way that Jay writes, in a sense that he doesn't put anything down, he just goes in a booth and kinda thinks about things and lays them down. He'll get to let's say, a verse is 16 bars. He'll just sit there and vibe out to the music and he'll tell you to record and he'll put down the first four bars, and then he'll stop and then he'll vibe out on those 4 and add another 2, 4, 5, 6 bars, so he just kinda pieces it together and by the end he was probably finished with the verse from beginning to the end in I'd say less than 30 minutes. And he never puts a word down on paper.""Mike Walks Us Through 'The Rising Tied'". Linkin Park Association. October 27, 2006.
In 2005, Fiasco and Shinoda collaborated for Fort Minor's "Spraypaint & Inkpens" (Fort Minor: We Major) and "Be Somebody" (The Rising Tied). Shinoda was also a producer for the songs "The Instrumental" (Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor; 2006) and "Resurrection" (Download to Donate for Haiti; 2010)."Lupe Fiasco Rolls With Jay-Z, Shinoda". Billboard. March 13, 2006.Kujundzic, Peter (January 21, 2010). "Lupe Fiasco & Kenna - Resurrection (Produced by Mike Shinoda)". Hypebeast.
== Production discography ==
Title 	Year	Other artist(s) 	Album
"Spraypaint & Inkpens"	2005	Fort Minor, Ghostface Killah	Fort Minor: We Major
"Be Somebody" 	2005	Fort Minor, Holly Brook 	The Rising Tied
"The Instrumental" 	2006	Jonah Matranga 	Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
"Resurrection" 	2010	Kenna 	Download to Donate for Haiti
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