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