Fort Minor

Fort Minor is a hip-hop side project created by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. It's first album is entitled The Rising Tied.

Music

Mike's goal for the project is to have fun with his friends, rather than to showcase the hottest names in underground and mainstream hip-hop.

Related Topics:
Underground - Mainstream

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: "It's called Fort Minor, instead of my name because there are a bunch of other people involved in the project. But I only wanted to work with family and friends; people that I feel are really close to me and we see eye-to-eye." -- Mike Shinoda, BallerStatus.

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Some contributors to the project are:

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• Black Thought: the lead vocalist of Philadelphia hip-hoppers The Roots. Widely renound for their unique live performances, The Roots have been making music since the late '80s, and are still going strong to this day.
• Common: he was a highly influential figure in rap's underground during the '90s, keeping the sophisticated lyrical technique and flowing syncopations of jazz-rap alive.
• Kenna: Born in Ethiopia (but raised in both Cincinnati and Virginia Beach), alt-funk artist Kenna became captivated by the sounds of U2 and Stevie Wonder early on.
• Lupe Fiasco: Close your eyes and imagine a world filled with so many contradictions that its damn near impossible to tell left from right, up from down and right from wrong.
• John Legend: Neo-soul singer and pianist John Legend combined the raw fervor of contemporaries Cody ChesnuTT and the burning precision of D'Angelo.
• Styles of Beyond: he doesn't make your average, everyday rap songs. With the impending millennium staring us all in the face, Ryu and Takbir, the two incredible gifted MCs that make up the LA-based hip-hop group.
• Jay-Z: he has reigned over the New York rap scene throughout the late '90s and early 2000s and steadily built up the Roc-a-Fella Records dynasty in the process. The Brooklyn rapper made his splash debut in 1996 and cranked out album after album and hit after hit throughout the decade and into the next.
• Holly Brook: It?s not a musical approach one might expect from the first artists signed by hard rock kingpins Linkin Park. The band?s guitarist, Brad Delson, loved Holly?s demo and offered her a deal with the group?s label Machine Shop Recordings, which will release her album LIKE BLOOD LIKE HONEY in early 2006. Now Holly Brook is fulfilling her dream. ?Music and performing are what I love,? she says. ?If I can do that for the rest of my life, I?ll be happy.