[00:00.49]The dude, he said that, like,
[00:03.11]when we were making the first Linkin Park record
[00:05.18]He was like,
[00:06.15]"Yeah you know, I don''''''''t know about the rapping like,
[00:08.65]I don''''''''t know... maybe you should just be a rock band."
[00:11.55]You know what I mean, like, trying to change us
[00:13.21]like they signed us as an act like what we sound like and then he''''''''s like
[00:16.68]"Oh I don''''''''t know maybe you should just play keyboard"
[00:19.37]
[00:20.59]Before the first song that you heard me on
[00:22.87]There were people already tryin'''''''' to get me gone
[00:25.21]Tellin'''''''' me to quit rapping
[00:26.48]"Just play the keys"
[00:27.65]That my band had a singer
[00:28.96]They didn''''''''t need me
[00:30.03]But my band had my back
[00:31.21]So we did the tracks
[00:32.78]Put out the album and the talk went flat
[00:34.81]It was funny at first but then the humour faded
[00:37.21]When some magazines printed that our label made us
[00:40.05]We were to be good to be true
[00:41.36]Some were saying ghost writers were writin'''''''' all that we do
[00:44.30]So we had to disprove it
[00:45.92]We spelled it out to the detail how we do it when we''''''''re making this music
[00:49.50]After that I made it a rule
[00:51.24]I only do e-mail responses to print interviews
[00:53.87]Because these people love to put a twist to your words
[00:56.53]To infer that you said something fucking absurd
[00:58.67]
[00:59.34]Oh, did I lose you at infer?
[01:01.28]Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words?
[01:05.97]People used to infer that we were manufactured
[01:09.00]Now I''''''''ve got the interviews on file
[01:10.79]Which people said what
[01:12.17]Which number to dial
[01:13.13]So now every enemy screaming insanity
[01:15.79]All they''''''''re ever gonna be''''''''s another big fan of me
[01:18.35]Bitch