According to BallerStatus.net, Mike Shinoda's first solo hip-hop outing will be titled "The Rising Tide", released under the 'stage name' "Fort Minor" through his own Machine Shop Recordings.

The album, which will confirmedly drop later this summer, features a ton of guest artists including Common, Black Thought, Kenna, John Legend, plus other 'close friends' of Mike's, and will be co-produced by the legendary Jay-Z.

5 of the CD "14 or 15 final tracks" titles can be confirmed as "Remember The Name," "Petrified," "Where'd You Go," "Right Now" (Featuring Black Thought) and "Believe Me".

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How exciting! Jay-Z is working with Mike again, that must be really great.

I cannot wait until this album is released!

Wow, Jay-Z? I thought that Mike said that he was the one who was going to produce it. But either way it's going to sound good. I can't wait until it comes out :)

this album is already sounding really good


cant wait till it is released :thumbsup:

i hope the album is going to be go0d...well it sounds go0d already :thumbsup:

well Mike always do excelllent his work. i am sure that his new album is going to be awesome :thumbsup:

ya...cant wait to hear it

was it right decision to make an album with jwy z :dots:

Jay Z's just producing, not performing in it anyway...I think :huh: I hope it sounds more like Underground Hip Hop...I can't imagine Mike the gangsta pimp :lol: I'm really really looking forward to it :)

Cant wait, but is it coming out in Australia? I hope so. :(

im sure it is.

I think lp is destroying them selfs....ive read that this new rising tide album is going to have cursing on it....Remember Hybrid Theory? that was a great cd becuz there was no yelling (or there was somg but not that much) and there was no cursing....in meterio they screaming in almost all there songs...now imagine what this rising tide is gunan be like...cursing and yelling oh god i might ditch Linkin Park if they keep destroying them selfs you guys have to agree there not Linkin Park anymor ethere like some yelling rap band now and there screwing up this is what i think will happen with the rising tide cd they make

I disagree because...

1) the Rising Tied is not an LP album, it's something Mike Shinoda's doing with his other non-LP friends, so there will be no rock...
2) They've been screaming since the beginning, in fact, I think there was less screaming in Meteora than in Hybrid Theory
3) Just because there is swearing in an album, that does not in any way mean it's bad. If you want albums with no cursing, where you can be sheltered from everything, start a collection of Disney soundtracks or something...

the album sounds mad, think it'll reach the charts??

no what i was trying to say is that L.P used to be a band where teachers in my skool would listin to them..now they are swaring and stuff...like kids who are like 10 wont be able to listin to them...there gunna screw up now there all going into diffrent bands..all my friends say there getting worse and worse...plus Chesters voice is fading if u heard live 8 then u wood understand thats hes fading terribly...the crowd also didnt cheer as loud as i wood have expected them to, its becuz there messing up,and if u have to sware to get ur point across in a song then thats just low......theres even sites that say L.P fans will be split in half becuz of there new cd coming out..sure yah 18 year olds will be able to listin to that but i listined to lp wen i was 11 and i loved them but if i was that same age right now i woodent be able to listin to collision course becuz of the swaring...ull see it will split the fans :( :confused: :blink: ;)