The first single from Linkin Park's sixth album was debuted on March 6, 2014 through the music app Shazam. The song was made available for listening to anyone who "Shazamed" any of the band's previous tracks. A month previously, Wiz Khalifa had become the first artist to premiere a track on Shazam when he debuted "We Dem Boyz" on the music identification service.
Co-frontman Mike Shinoda told Radio.com: "The reason we went with this single first is that we think it's a good look into the DNA of the record that we're putting out this summer." "A few months ago I was making some demos and writing this stuff and it sounded like something that you could play on the radio," he continued. "I listen to a lot of indie music… and I was listening to the demos and thought, I don't want to make any of that music. What is it that's not out there right now that I'm all about, that I'm fired up about that is a void? It ended up being this new material."
The hard rocking six-minute track features an epic intro and some intense Chester Bennington vocals centering on pointing the finger when it comes to blame. Halfway into the tune, rapper Rakim steps in to spit a few rhymes in which he questions the path some take to accumulate wealth. "That's like one of my idols," commented Shinoda. "If you get into the nitty-gritty of his rhyme pattern and the topic in this song, it's bananas what he is doing. He's on the some Steve Vai s--t vocally."
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