Update on "Unreleased" (The Visionaries and Linkin Park)

[NJPLP]

Back in 2001, right before Linkin Park's European tour in September, Linkin Park gave an interview to OnStage where Mr. Hahn revealed he and Mike had worked on a track with the hip hop group The Visionaries. "Chester just did a song with Cyclefly and also with DJ Lethal, and Mike and I just finished a track with the Visionaries too."

 

Later, in 2006, KeyKool, a member of The Visionaries, was questioned by a Linkin Park fan about the song. This was his answer:

"Hey, LMNO did a song with Mike Shinoda back in the day, maybe 6 years ago.

Then the Visionaries recorded a song with Joe Hahn and Mike Shinoda, and I believe some of the rest of the group was supposed to add stuff to the song...anyhow, it was before the "ReAnimation" album, and we all decided not to put the song out....so, I guess it's just one of those, never heard, never put out things.

We've only heard a rough version of the song, and never heard anything after that.

Kool, give thanks."

 

The song was finally released on April 20, 2015 by 2Mex through his Bandcamp page. The song can be purchased for $1.

 

LMNO said about the recording, "The Visionaries recorded the song at Kevin Sakodas, Mike wasn’t there Joe wasn’t either". Questioned if the song had a title, he answered, "Honestly I’m not sure".

 

Years later, we have an update on if the song had a working title or not from Dannu:

 

"Unreleased" didn't have a title because him and the rest of the Visionaries all agreed it wasn't worthy of being released. The whole recording of the song was not what you hear on this version. The song was all spilt up and the rapper was supposed to rhyme in between. That's why the song sounds weird. According to him, it would have been better we they all wrote it together.

 

When I asked him about if he knows who raps what specific parts during the chorus of that song and if they are sampled vocals from another song or is it just him and his bandmates that are rapping those parts, he said this:

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Those are all scratches from records… only DJ Rhettmatic knows.

 

I also asked him if he knew anything about the LMNO/Mike Shinoda collaboration from 2000, when Linkin Park were called Hybrid Theory, and he replied to me with this: 

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Nope, that's an LMNO question.

 

Edited October 17, 2022 by NJPLP

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

Man thanks for digging LP related news

 

You are doing a great job and I really appreciate what you are doing

 

🙏

[Justin]

I second this. I found this interesting. Thanks for keeping some news going, especially in this period of unprecedented silence from the LP team.

[NJPLP]

On 10/14/2022 at 5:55 PM, JZ-GreyDazePatheticWorship said:

Man thanks for digging LP related news

 

You are doing a great job and I really appreciate what you are doing

 

🙏

 

On 10/15/2022 at 9:55 PM, Justin said:

I second this. I found this interesting. Thanks for keeping some news going, especially in this period of unprecedented silence from the LP team.

Thanks, I've actually been trying to contact multiple LP collaboration collaborators/former band members/executives/other band members (who knew the band members early in their careers)/others that had to do with LP (mainly through Instagram) about the collaborations, along with their demos and live show information, but I still haven't gotten replies back from most of them.

Edited October 19, 2022 by NJPLP