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Since forming in 1996, Lincoln Park has sold over 100 million records worldwide.

The enormous success, mixing genres like hip-hop, metal, and anthemic pop was spearheaded by the band's ultra-talented founder, Mike Shinoda.

Two months after Lincoln Park released their seventh album in 2017, their charismatic frontman, Chester Bunnington, died by suicide, sending the band and millions of fans into a tale scene.

Following year, Mike Shinoda detailed his grief on his solo release, Post-Traumatic.

And since that time, Mike has continued to relent in this dedication to making music.

Also, quarantine, for instance, Mike has been creating tracks from scratch live on Twitch five days a week.

He's a master community of thousands of followers who scour the internet for new artists from Mike to collaborate with, using the hashtag ShinodaProduceMe.

In this episode, Rick Rubin talks to Mike about the albums he produced with Lincoln Park that helped redefine the band's sound.

Mike also reminisces about the band's early interpersonal dynamics, and how the Beastie Boys' license to ill helped lay the foundation for Mike's life work.

This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda.

Tell me about what you're doing on Twitch.

It's so weird, man. It's great. I love it.

When quarantine started, every day was the same day. I was in pajamas half the time. I was just like walking around in sweats.

It wasn't depressed, but it was just like everything's the same.

So when I started streaming effectively because it created structure, so I stream... I started then and I still do stream five days a week, a stream weekdays.

I tend to, you know, noon or one-ish. And it was a nice way to be like, oh, I've got my weekdays now.

I'm not streaming today. I know. It's Saturday. It's just a stupid thing.

And I got to use really dig in with this space and get creative and get weird, which is part of the most fun part of it is doing stuff you go, I don't even know.

That was a weird idea. That was fun to do.

And all last year I was getting faster and faster and faster in terms of making a track.

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