{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 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 tryin' to get me gone Tellin' 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 humor faded When some magazines printed that our label made us We were to be 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 makin' 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, f**in' absurd Oh, did I lose you at infer? Not used to hearing a verse that uses over first grade vocabulary words 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, b**h {You believe that? Like, that's crazy, sounds crazy, right You're like this point, at this point you figure, 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, he didn't want me rap He was like, "Maybe Joe Hahn should, um, wear a lab coat And a cowboy hat on, it's like when we play, I swear to God he's crazy It was crazy", What's goin' on with the cowboy hat? Yeah And later on he claimed that he wrote our all our songs So that was, that was real nice}