Customer Reviews

Rising Tied (Clean)

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Mike Shinoda is really impressive in his first solo album. Remember the Name is a great song, very catchy. This CD though, as good as it is, is annoying at times. It seems like 13 or 14 of these songs are about how everyone was dissing him, saying he couldn't make it, or whatever. Ok, Mike, you did it! Good work. Now shut up about how everybody in the world wrote you off and told you that you couldn't rap.

So let me explain a bit. Fort Minor is a spin off of Linkin Park. The bassist can rap so while Linkin Park wasn't doing a whole lot, this is what happened. And its pretty darn good.
1. Introduction N/A
2. Remember The Name: 5/5 I'm sure you've heard it by now, its a fantastic song with a great original chorus.
3. Right Now: 4/5 This is just a flat out solid song. Nothing really great about it, but nothing bad about it. Its one you'll listen to a few times, but not one you'll listen to on a regular basis.
4. Petrified: 3/5 I'm not a big fan. The hook is lame. The beat is lazy. Just not a great song.
5. Feel Like Home: 5/5 One of the better songs on the album without a doubt. The hook is great and the beat is awesome.
6. Where'd You Go: 5/5 This is one that should of and probably was played on the radio like crazy when it first came out, absolutely fantastic song. One that you will want to listen to over and over.
7. In Stereo: 3/5 Again, a swing and a miss by Shinoda. Lazy beat makes it a forgetful song. The hook is okay though.
8. Back Home: 3/5 This is the part we're kind of in the dry part of the CD, the CD could of done without it.
9. Cigarettes: 4/5 I'm not sure what to make of this song. Its kind of making fun of rap these days. I don't know, its okay. Not Great.
10. Believe Me: 5/5 I love this song. The hook is great. The beat is also great. One you'll want to listen to quite a few times.
11. Get Me Gone: N/A
12. High Road: 5/5 John Legend does a fantastic job in this track. The beat is awesome, it makes one of the top tracks in the CD.
13. Kenji: 5/5 Freakin' Unbelievable. Without a doubt my favorite song on the CD. It tells a heart wrenching story about a Japanese person that lived in the US when Pearl Harbor Happened. I absolutely love this song. I actually think this has the best beat of any of the songs on the album. Download this one now.
14. Red To Black: 4/5 With a little help from his Linkin' Park buddies they make a solid track. Not fantastic, but its a good listen.
15. The Battle: N/A
16. Slip Out The Back: 5/5 A great way to exit the album, its got a sweet beat, everything is good, great hook. I love it.

This is a CD you need to listen to. Its a Rap CD without all the crap usually found in rap CDs now a days.
Must Have Songs: (In order)
1. Kenji
2. Were'd You Go
3. Remember The Name
4. Believe Me
5. Slip Out The Back
6. High Road

Thats why this CD gets a final score of: 8.5/10

Ive always been a fan of shinoda's rappings since hearing him on linkin parks stuff. So when i heard he was putting out his own album as fort minor and i heard one of the songs i was hooked and just had to buy the album. its got alot of great songs on it and some are very catchy. i would recommend it to anyone who likes his stuff on linkin park.

Mike shinoda is by far the best rapper ever. forget eminem and 50 cent(eminem is actually ok but he's so explicit and 50 cent sucks). i love what MS did with FM. this is a great cd for LP or FM fans. all in all this cd is 9.9 out of 10.

The music is good, I like the option of gettign a clean version and really enjoy 3 or 4 of the songs, but THE CD DOESN'T WORK WITH COMPUTER MUSIC PROGRAMS. The only way I could even acess it was with my dvd drive then I couldn't copy the songs to my hard drive. I couldn't even may my own copy of the cd! I know piracy protection is important, but they can't keep me from listening to my own cd on my own computer! I need the CD drives for game discs! I also only listen to mp3 cd's in my car so I don't have to carry my whole library around, but this won't let you! If any of you know weather or not this is fixable please tell me!

This was a great album I bought it jsut last week and listen to it constantly. Its just even though I guess you got count this as "Underground Rap" because its preety much not mainstream. Though for Underground stuff I shoudlnt be hearing a song like "Petrified" that sounds like it shoudl be played at a Middle School Dance he keeps saying "Drop That" like 80 times.

Dont get me wrong if you like Linkin Park or rap pick up this album you wont be dissapointed.

A kids review above mine is wrong saying that this album is "clean" while in more than one song Mike Shinoda drops the F bomb so im not sure if that constitues clean, but it doesn't in my book. But i do agree that it is a greet album and the best songs are Kenji and Where'd you go

Mike shinoda is by far the best rapper ever. forget eminem and 50 cent(eminem is actually ok but he's so explicit and 50 cent sucks). i love what MS did with FM. this is a great cd for LP or FM fans. all in all this cd is 9.9 out of 10.

This is the coolest rap album of the year (possibly even THE best)Also, this really IS a clean cd. they even block out gunmen and shot... Shinoda even changes his verse in some parts (example, he changes "with some brand new crack" to "with a brand new attack"

ANYWAY.... the best tracks are
In stereo
Remember the name
Kenji
Get me gone


yeah... regular cd is best, but this is okay.
buy it loser!