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Mike Shinoda Biography

Michael Kenji Shinoda (/ʃɪˈnoʊdə/, born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and graphic designer. He co-founded Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band's rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, keyboardist, producer, and lead vocalist. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He served as a producer for tracks and albums by Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond and The X-Ecutioners.

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If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again. " I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

Kids, Magazines, Same, Thing, Who I Am, Writing

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Class, Dad, Remembers, Say, Teacher, Uncles

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

Kid, Kids, Loved, Transformers

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

Classical, Eventually, Keyboards, Led, Piano, Years

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Names, Pain, Pleasure, Skills, Ten

I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

Center, Couple, Focus, Rapper, Years

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

Call, Collector, Collectors, Guess, Sneakers

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

Dramatic, Jumping, Like, Make, Quiet, Song

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Ideas, Leaving, Moving, Relate

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

Done, Havens, Same, Thing

I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy

Sexy, Toothbrush, Toothbrushes

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

Band, Favorite, School, Watch, Watches

I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

Bright, Elbows, Hair, Red, Today, Wear

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Christmas, Old, Parent, Parents, Years

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Creative, Head, Idea, Ideas, Sometimes

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

Goal, Guy, Guys, Long, Same, Time

Dream big, work hard and don't be an asshole!

Bigs, Dream, Hard, Hard Work, Work

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Artist, Kids, Mom, Piano, Thought, Young

I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.

Example, Know, News, Talk, Tonight

I really enjoy it - it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.

Anymore, Car, Feelings, Gps, Seen, Videogame

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