| The dude, he said that, like
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| When we were making the first Linkin Park record
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| He was like:
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| «Yeah you know, I don’t know about the rapping like, I don’t know…
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| If it’s like.
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| Maybe you should just be a rock band.»
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| You know what I mean, like, trying to change us
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| Like they signed us as an act like what we sound like
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| And then he’s like:
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| «Oh I don’t know maybe you should just play keyboard»
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| Before the first song that you heard me on
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| There were people already tryin' to get me gone
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| Tellin' me to quit rapping, «Just play the keys»
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| That my band had a singer, they didn’t need me
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| But my band had my back so we did the tracks
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| Put out the album and the talk went flat
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| It was funny at first but then the humor faded
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| When some magazines printed that our label made us
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| We were to be good to be true
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| Some were saying ghost writers were writing all that we do
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| So we had to disprove it:
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| We spelled it out to the detail how we do it when we’re making this music
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| After that I made it a rule:
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| I only do E-mail responses to print interviews
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| Because these people love to put a twist to your words
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| To infer that you said something fucking absurd
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| Oh, did I lose you at «infer»?
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| Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words?
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| People used to «infer» that we were manufactured
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| Now I’ve got the interviews on file
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| Which people said what, which number to dial
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| So now every enemy screaming insanity
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| All they’re ever gonna be’s another big fan of me
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| Bitch
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| Can you believe that?
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| Like it’s crazy, it sounds crazy right?
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| Like at this point, at this point you’re thinking, you hear it out and you’re
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| like
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| «That guy was out of his mind»
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| But honestly that’s what he wrote
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| Besides the fact that he wanted me to just play keyboard or whatever
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| He didn’t want me to rap
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| He was like «Maybe Joe Hahn should, um
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| Wear a lab coat and a cowboy hat» on, like when we play
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| I swear to God he was crazy
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| And later on he claimed he wrote all our songs so that was really bad." |