Busta Rhymes ft Linkin Park – We Made It – Single Review
Linkin Park are no strangers to hooking up with heavy-hitting rap acts, so this collaboration with Busta Rhymes had us pretty excited. At first.
Don’t take this the wrong way guys, but after a few listens you realise you’re waiting for one of those massive Chester Bennington choruses that the LP do so well. We Made It bubbles under with tension all the way through, all sinister piano lines and gruff lyrics, but there’s no real ‘high point’ to the song and you walk away slightly disappointed.
Busta phones in a slightly mumbled performance, to the point where he’s unintelligible in places. Bennington and the brilliant Mike Shinoda get their fair share of vocal time, but there’s not much for either act to be proud of throughout this.
Alex Lai considers it a bit of a cash-in, and it’s certainly bringing home the bacon in the charts, but we can’t help wondering if this is the absolute best these guys could come up with…
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