Thing is, I actually like Linkin Park. I mean, I've bootlegged all their material, even their japanese cd release.

But Shinoda... sure he's come up with a few good lines. But it's just not enough to make it in pure Hip-Hop.

I mean, that reanimation release was a debacle. It was just a way so the company could hold the fans at bay while they spend extra time trying to come up with new material. Sort of like when the Simpsons do an episode of nothing but old clips from other episodes.

If Shinoda came out with an album all on his own, not only would he be hard pressed to come up with those ill lyrical lines every second of the dealy, but the fans of Linkin Park would most likely just see it as a cheap way for the company they work for to make a cheap buck. After all, rock listeners don't know how hard it is to make a rap album.

To be honest, I don't question his rapping ability. I just question is lyrical content. He raps about pain inside him. He has no pain inside him. That's what is so fake about it. That song "Somewhere I Belong" was designed for angst filled teeny bopping goth wannabe posers. It was not a reflection of any member of the band. That's what is wrong with Linkin Park.

Now Serj Tankian, the vocalist to the band of System of a Down, he's about as real as you get. And he did do that one song with Wu-Tang Clan, and isn't afraid to use the 'N' word.

^agree with the statment about the lead singer of system of a down.......it just seems to me that rock groups who have excellent lyrics great wordplay albeit a different type of flow are getting dissed by kids who don't know better.......i knew Tankian was dope back when he did Prison Song..........that was a rap song done to a rock beat basically.........i just hate when a genre is judged based on bias and wack artist *cough* limp biszcit *cough*..........i do disagree with reanimation..........only cuz i thought the same thing..........once i copped it and heard how they didn't just remix the album...........they added new stuff and showed the different directions they could have gone..........and i never said shinoda should go solo.....i said he was dope.........dope where he is.......why fix what isn't broken?

Word that LP is hold'n him back
but I think thats a good thing
his rhymes are so elementary
I wrote betta shit in 4th grade
then half of what he does now

System Of a Down is dope wit both rock and rap
They did Wutang's Shame On A Nigga betta than they did
Rage Against The Machine Was Real Dope that way too
but solo is no go for me with mikey

lol your room looks like a fuckin arcade.