Album Review - Fort Minor

The best Rock band around, Linkin Park has Mike Shinoda come out with his own album called Fort Minor. There are a few singers in Fort Minor. Ryu and Tak are from Styles of Beyond (really never heard of them!). Almost as if Fort Minor is a seperate band by itself. Maintaining the Linkin Park feel and genre, Fort Minor is probably Mike Shinoda's true genius in rap unfold. Together with what I call the Linkin Park rhythm, the combination of lyrics and tune fusions into the best rap album I've ever heard!

Meaningful and different from the shit you get from common rap themes: sex, gangsters, mobs, drugs, etc. This album is full of soul and life. It tells a story with its balance of rap and light tunes, a work of genius! This album packs in 16 tracks with 3 more in the limited edition version, and honestly speaking, 15 of them I love it! I don't know why track 17 and 18 are missing, as if it was skipped. Maybe because its part of the Limited edition album that I got. But listen to it one after another, you really see a story unfold. Very well arranged.

Album tracks of Fort Minor (limited edition):
1) Introduction
2) Remeber the name (featuring Styles of Beyond)
3) Right Now (featuring Black Thought of the Roots and Styles of Beyond)
4) Petrified
5) Feel Like Home (featuring Styles of Beyond)
6) Where'd You Go (featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga)
7) In Stereo
8) Back Home (featuring Common and Styles of Beyond)
9) Cigarettes
10) Believe Me (featuring Bobo and Styles of Beyond)
11) Get Me Gone
12) High Road (featuring John Legend)
13) Kenji
14) Red to Black (featuring Kenna, Jonah Matranga and Styles of Beyond)
15) The Battle (featuring Celph Titled)
16) Slip Out the Back (featuring Mr. Hahn)
17) -Blank-
18) -Blank-
19) Be Somebody (featuring Lupe Fiasco, Holly Brook and Tak of Styles of Beyond)
20) There They Go (featuring Sixx John)
21) The Hard Way (featuring Kenna)

The limited edition also comes with a DVD with videos of the making of the album and art, plus interviews with Mike Shinoda, the making of the video "Petrified", and more.

Available in stores for USD$23.00. I got it on the first day, and my receipt came to USD$16.99 at Best Buy. So it is definitely worth the buck! This album is RECOMMENDED!