Jay-Z, Linkin Park - Collision Course (with DVD)
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Free Music Review: Well Surprise, Surprise...
Hit: 5 Stars
In Linkin Park's second side album between their cd's, like Reanimation was between Hybrid Theory and Meteora, once again a great success. Reanimation is also an excellent hip-hop blended album for Linkin Park and if you don't own that, I advise you to pick it up. Anyways, onto this review.
Linkin Park is the biggest and most influencial rock band of the new millenium, and Jay-Z (even though he's retired) is one of the most popular hip-hop artists too. Even though I am not a big hip-hop fan, Linkin Park already features a lot of hip-hop vocals. The reason Linkin Park's hip-hop vocals work to me, are because of the guitar riffs behind them. Each and every song catches a new beat and adds new style to great lyrics. Even though Jay-Z is a different kind of rap then Linkin Park, the music still meshes very well.
#1 - Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You ... Now first off I'd have to say that originally I hated Dirt Off Your Shoulder. With the additions of the guitar riffs behind Jay-Z voice and the addition of Mike Shinoda to the hip-hop vocals, I changed my mind. This is my favorite song on the cd and to rate with the numbers system 5/5.
#2 - Big Pimpin'/Papercut ... definately the bust on the cd. Papercut in itself was a good song. Big Pimpin' in itself was a good song. The mix between the two, uh-no. The slow-down of Papercut's lyrics with the Big Pimpin' music behind it, a little rough and not much edge to the sound. I recommend to pass on this song. 1/5... and that's a compliment.
#3 - Jigga What/Faint ... excellent! Jay-Z rapping over the Faint music sounds incredible. The fast-paced song picks up even more with Jay-Z and his fast mouthed lyrics. When Linkin Park comes back in with their own part to Faint, it matches up to it's original quality. Great song 4.5/5
#4 - Numb/Encore ... the most family oriented song on the cd. A good mix of Jay-Z and Chester Bennington in this song. Chester's additional lyrics of "What the hell are you waiting for" throughout Jay-Z Encore lyrics sounds quite soothing. A great concert song, and a very good song on this cd. Once again ... 4.5/5
#5 - Izzo/In the End ... another suprisingly good song. Izzo by Jay-Z is one of my least favorite songs. The mix between the two however sounds great. In the End is of course Linkin Park's most famous song. Mike's mix and match with Jay-Z once again flows very nicely with the music and it's a good listening song. It doesn't quite match up with a few of the others though but still good ... 4/5.
#6 - Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer ... very close to the greatness of Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You. The mix of these three songs in absolutely insane. The beginning with Jay-Z rapping over Points of Authority sounds like how it should have originally been. Then after Points ends, Brad Delson kicks in the guitar from One Step Closer and Jay-Z continues to sing throughout One Step Closer mixing in with Chester and Mike. The police scene in 99 Problems with Jay-Z and Mike is my favorite part of this cd. Great song 5/5.
The DVD includes the MTV Mash-Up performance which I thought included great energy and sounded great also. It's another good addition along with the cd, and except for the short length I would give the dvd a 5/5.
Overall I would give the CD/DVD combo a 4.75/5 ... I know it's a weird number, but it's not perfect, but it's very very close! Incredible how great the mash-up really sounds between two total different ends of the spectrum of music. I recommend this for another hip/hop or rock fan.
Free Music Review: Dagger Dias reviews Linkin Park's Collision Course
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow, what a good cd! It would be perfect if it was only a little bit longer than 6 tracks.
Dirt Off Your Shoulders & Lying From You
Arguably the best track on the disc. Starts off with a band member being upset at not having his drink he ordered, then it kicks right in with good rapping and a nice base line for the guitars. Awesome song! Not even a few F-Bombs could stop it from getting a great score in my book.
10/10
Big Pimpin & Papercut
Papercut's chorus is added as an opening line to Big Pimpin, on this track. Nice, but could have been better if they had the ENTIRE big pimpin, they cut out the best part! More of papercut would be nicer too. Great idea, but not thought out very well. Oh, and who the heck is Randy!?!?!?
8/10
Jigga What & Faint
I like this one. First Jay-Z does some rapping, then Faint starts up. I liked the original Faint better, but this is still great.
9/10
Numb Encore
If this cd will be remembered for anything, it will very likely be the Numb Encore. They turned numb into a rap song, and did a great job of it. Very powerful song. I liked the rock version of Numb better than this rap one, but it is still extremely good, and proof of what can happen when two great bands team up, they make masterpieces like this track!
10/10
Izzo & In The End
A lot of people are disapointed with this track. Why? I don't know, I on the other hand was very pleased with it. The version of Izzo on this is FAR superior to the older (not to mention, more boring) version. In The End's chorus is added to Izzo as an extra line. Jay-Z even changed the lyrics to say "here with US" instead of "here with me", to signify that its now an LPJZ song and no longer just his, I thought that was cool. They did a great job.
9/10
Points Of Authority & 99 Problems & One Step Closer
Could you possibly ask for a better closing to such a good cd? Begins as Points Of Authority with new (and BETTER!) lyrics, with Jay-Z being pulled over by a cop (voiced over by LP's Mike Shinoda) and then the background changes to One Step Closer, as Jay-Z continues to rap about his 99 Problems, then Chester comes in with the infamous SHUT UP line from the original One Step Closer, and trades off lines with Jay-Z. "EVERYTHING YOU SAY TO ME" .... "I GOT 99 PROBLEMS BUT A B**** AINT ONE!" what an incredible closer, not as good as Dirt Off Your Shoulders, or The Numb Encore, but so good.
10/10
Overall, get this cd if you like either band. It is NOT a compilation of each band doing remixes of each other's work but on the other hand they worked together and teamed up to make something incredible. Just wished it would have more than 6 tracks, thats the only thing stopping it from being perfect.
Overall grade: 56/60 ---> 93% ---> A- !
A true "collission course" of rock and rap.
Give it a try, enjoy! ~ Dagger Dias
Free Music Review: Just to clear things up...
Hit: 5 Stars
A common misconception for many people is why Jay-Z and Linkin Park agreed to doing such a CD; one that clearly was a call for money. But there's more here than just that.
The idea of a collaboration between Jay-Z and Linkin Park to create mash-ups was concieved by MTV; after all, they did appear on the show MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups (not to mention the fact that the cover of the CD says explicitly, 'MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents...'). Why did they agree to this? Because they thought it'd be fun. The CD, the live performance all exist because Jay-Z thought it'd be cool to work with Linkin Park, and vice versa.
If you are here to hear new material by either Jay-Z or LP, you might as well turn away now. There are some people that gave this album bad ratings due to lyrical mismatches and so on and so forth, but the reader must keep in mind that this is a MASH-UP. A mash-up is where two artists' songs are literally mashed together to create something new.
There's nothing new here, just remixes of some popular Jay-Z and Linkin Park songs. If it were anything else, it wouldn't be a mash-up, would it?
With this in mind, the Collison Course album is absolutely amazing. Consider that it took DJ Danger Mouse (of the Beatles and Jay-Z's Grey Album fame) over a month to create 12 mashed up songs of the Beatles and Jay-Z. Now consider that it took the members of Linkin Park and Jay-Z 4 days to create 6 mash-ups, with rerecorded vocals and instrumentation and live performance practice included. This album took a lot of effort, and it shows. Songs like Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You and Jigga What/Faint may sound effortlessly seamed together, but only with hard work and dedication could such an effect be achieved.
So, "What the hell are you waiting for?" Buy this album to experience another breakthrough in mash-up history. Or just to hear your favorite Jay-Z or LP song mixed with the other's.
EDIT: I've been seeing a lot of bad reviews of this, trying to peg the album as a 'sell-out.' This is completely ridiculous as 1) Linkin Park AND Jay-Z are getting no money from the album (with MTV, Warner, etc. getting most of the cash) and 2) sell-outs do the same thing over and over and over again... Yet here we see a band and a retired rapper doing something they haven't done before, and crossing into new lands. Linkin Park has elements of metal, rock, hip-hop, electronica, and even more, truely a hybrid. Jay-Z has respect for rock, and shows it with this album. How can you call these two sell-outs when they clearly are not? This is just another effort to improve musicianship and close the gap on these so-called 'genres,' of which so many exist that every band pretty much has a genre for itself.
Free Music Review: Now THIS is definitely the "Best of Both Worlds"...
Hit: 5 Stars
For anyone that has been living deep in the recesses of musical knowledge over the last year, the term "mash-up" is where a DJ takes the lyrics of one artist's songs and combines them somewhat flawlessly with the beat of another artist's song from another different genre of music.
For example, take the lyrics to Destiny's Child's hit "Bootylicious" and lay them on top of the beat of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and what do you get? "Smells Like Booty". You might be laughing at this title but believe it or not it actually exists, as anyone who uses Kazaa or any other music downloading site can tell you.
One artist who has found himself being mashed-up frequently at times is Jay-Z, who was the focal point of two mash-up albums that brought this underground trend to the mainstream forefront, DJ Danger Mouse's The Gray Album (using Jay's Black Album and the Beatles' classic White Album) and The Double Black Album (again, The Black Album but this time paired with Metallica's own "Black Album" from 1991)
So when MTV decided that a legal mash-up project would be a good idea for a special album project, they enlisted Linkin Park to try and pull it off. So who better to team them up with than the man who has been mashed-up more than potatoes at a Thanksgiving dinner, Jay-Z?
Collision Course is the end result of what had originally been planned as a one-shot song deal that suddenly turned into a 6-song EP album that showcases what happens when the self-proclaimed "best rapper alive" is partnered with one of the hottest alternative rock groups out today.
Most of the tracks are definitely hot in showing that Hova can definitely match his smooth flow and unique wordplay to the beats that LP lay down, especially on the closing track, Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer. What really makes the track a standout is how LP's Mike Shinoda takes over the part of the police officer that Jay recorded for 99 Problems and how Jay hardly needs to shift style or speed as the beat changes.
The thing that really makes this a great package is that it includes a DVD that shows how the project came to be in the studio, how the artists prepared and rehearsed to get ready for a special concert to preview the new material before the album release, and the concert itself.
Hopefully MTV will do another mash-up project sometime in the near future. As for this, unlike the 2 disasterous "Best of Both Worlds" projects that Jay-Z performed with R. Kelly, this definitely fits the "best of both worlds" definition to a T...
Free Music Review: Too bad there wasn't more audio tracks on the cd
Hit: 5 Stars
Is is one awesome concept pairing the GOD MC Jsy-Z with one of the best rock bands out in the industry Linkin Park. Even though there is only 6 tracksit still 5 stars because of the DVD. The DVD shows behnid the scenes how this incredible record was done and the live conecert. You see not many rappers could this off like Jay-Z. Eminem would sound like crap with rock beats [...]. Nas would prolly sound good. but this review is about the album. The opening track Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You blend in perfect together the LP instrumental with Jay-Z's raps over it. The second track Big Pimpin'/Papercut sounds alright together it couldn't have been beeter but it also could have been worse. The third track Jigga What/Faint was better than second but still could have been better. Now the fourth song is the best song that was blended together "Numb/Encore" jay's raps over the Numb beat is perfect track sound liek it could have bben the orgianl. And the fifth track "Izzo/In the End" is not as bad as the second and is a little better than the third. The sixth and final track "Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer" was an awesoem track blended together prefectly.
heres my rating for the songs
#1 Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You - its one of the better tracks (9/10)
#2 Big Pimpin'/Papercut - not as good as the 1st, 3rd & 6th tracks but worht listening to. (7/10)
#3 Jigga What/Faint - Just look above (7/10)
#4 Numb/Encore - It sounds like a song that wasn't blended together (10/10)
#5 Izzo/In the End - better than the track #3. Mike Shinoda made this song killa. (8/10)
#6 Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer - Personally my favorite track. Mike rapas some of jay's raps from the original version of "99 Problems" blended together perfectly. (10/10)
This album was blended together perfectly...
I sure hope this review was helpful for ya.