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Linkin Park discuss working with Stormzy
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 11 April 2017
Linkin Park have been talking about collaborating with Stormzy, which is apparently a thing they’ve done for a track on their new album.
“Right before we sent the record in to be finalised … we got Stormzy’s verse”, explains the band’s Chester Bennington to BeBox. “It was dope, and it was like, ‘oh, okay, great”.
If you’re feeling like there’s more to this story that that, then you would be correct. There are so many more riveting insights. Like, how did they even get Stormzy involved? Bennington explains: “It required us reaching out saying, ‘hey, we like Stormzy, here’s a track if you would like to participate on it, that would be awesome’. Apparently he was like, ‘yeah’. [So] that wasn’t that difficult”.
As I said, riveting. So insightful. But surely Stormzy was just thrust upon the band to make them look cool, because Stormzy’s the hot new guy in town right now. No, you are wrong. Linkin Park heard of Stormy ages ago and they’ve liked him since, like, forever: “We knew of Stormzy, that’s why we reached out to him, and we like Stormzy and we think that he’s dope”, says Bennington of his band’s original call to the grime king. “Little did we know that he was about to take over the world”.
If you can handle it, there’s more of this interview. Watch here: