New Ryu Interview: Fort Minor, Mike, etc

[LPLStaff]

A new interview with Ryu touches on Fort Minor, his relationship with Mike, and more. Interesting listen!

 

 

 

 

 

[martinez]

Really dope interview! It is answering on some questions I got since 2005 and since Welcome release.

 

As a thank you I can't help it but to mention that Ryu had released his new solo album on November 14, called "Medium Raw".

 

[bloodbath]

Man, Ryu is one of those unlucky guys, he tried several times but he should have more success 

[martinez]

Added two more videos. There is a couple more also very very interesting where Ryu talks about GBC, SOB, he also talks that they never got paid for their song used on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2.

 

EDIT: added one more about leaving Machine Shop.

[Sabi]

Yeah, I was listening to all of these interview clips, and Ryu’s saying some really interesting stuff. I remember being a huge fan of their 2 tracks on the Need for Speed: Most Wanted soundtrack. It was around the time Fort Minor’s album dropped, and I was sure they were gonna blow up off those two, but obviously, that didn’t happen.

[Capacity]

Just watched the interview and I'm honestly impressed by Ryu's maturity here.

 

His sense of accountability, instead of playing the victim or throwing shade at Mike over the 'Welcome' misunderstanding or the money issues was great.  This phrase: I did it to myself by expecting others to do the work for me. It's a very grown-up take.  I'll watch the rest of the interview afterwards.

 

 

[LPLStaff]

Really good stuff by Ryu here. At the same time you can't help but feel bad for him and SOB for how the industry/Warner did them. Reseda Beach is a badass album and they literally said, na, we aren't going to promote Second to None for you. That's wild - that should have had a video, promo, they play more shows and drop Reseda Beach in 2007.

 

Can't help but want to see a Fort Minor reunion with SOB one day. It's not Mike's style to look backwards but it would really pop off with the fans...

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

1 hour ago, LPLStaff said:

Really good stuff by Ryu here. At the same time you can't help but feel bad for him and SOB for how the industry/Warner did them. Reseda Beach is a badass album and they literally said, na, we aren't going to promote Second to None for you. That's wild - that should have had a video, promo, they play more shows and drop Reseda Beach in 2007.

 

Can't help but want to see a Fort Minor reunion with SOB one day. It's not Mike's style to look backwards but it would really pop off with the fans...

 

I was just listening to Second  after many years its basically a FM song the chorus sounds very linkinpark w the guitar.

[SinisterNL]

I've been listening to SoB and Ryu since FM. And Styles of Beyond is an OG hip-hop duo, their music very well written and straight from LA.

 

If you listen to Ryu's albums you just hear the classic 90s hip-hop.

It's not rap, it's hip-hop.

 

 

[AceWav]

10 hours ago, Capacity said:

Just watched the interview and I'm honestly impressed by Ryu's maturity here.

 

His sense of accountability, instead of playing the victim or throwing shade at Mike over the 'Welcome' misunderstanding or the money issues was great.  This phrase: I did it to myself by expecting others to do the work for me. It's a very grown-up take.  I'll watch the rest of the interview afterwards.

 

 

I especially like when he talks about getting his own bag as his own man. And how he’s going to get that anyways whether Mike helps him or not. 

[bloodbath]

What happened exactly with Reseda Beach? Warner just said said "I don't like this stuff" and left SOB with nothing?

[LPLStaff]

Watch the videos above - he talks about Mike brought SOB to Machine Shop (under Warner), then the folks at Warner all changed that liked SOB. They fired a ton of people at Warner. The new people didn't like SOB. And likely didn't like Holly Brook, any of the other stuff Mike brought. And bam, adios... they shelved Reseda Beach. And didn't want to help promote Second to None. The whole situation is a shame and SOB got screwed royally.

[Yucker]

22 minutes ago, LPLStaff said:

Watch the videos above - he talks about Mike brought SOB to Machine Shop (under Warner), then the folks at Warner all changed that liked SOB. They fired a ton of people at Warner. The new people didn't like SOB. And likely didn't like Holly Brook, any of the other stuff Mike brought. And bam, adios... they shelved Reseda Beach. And didn't want to help promote Second to None. The whole situation is a shame and SOB got screwed royally.

The Holly Brook thing always intriguing me. Like Mike let everyone go (or that was what i thought back then) and then she wrote that hit with Rihanna and Eminem.

[YRQRM0]

At least Second To None got into Transformers, I probably would not know it without that. 

[Cesar656]

On 12/3/2025 at 4:34 PM, Yucker said:

The Holly Brook thing always intriguing me. Like Mike let everyone go (or that was what i thought back then) and then she wrote that hit with Rihanna and Eminem.

if u wanna know more about her theres an interesting interview about her story in the industry where she answers all questions

[bloodbath]

2 hours ago, Cesar656 said:

if u wanna know more about her theres an interesting interview about her story in the industry where she answers all questions

Link?

[Capacity]

 

New interview with apathy about Mike.