This song is about what an artist has to go through to make it big in the music business.
According to Mike Shinoda, the chorus of the song is literally "breaking down the science of music."
Did you spot Shinoda's dodgy math in the lyrics? This is 10% luck 20% percent skill 15% percent concentrated power of will 5% percent pleasure 50% percent pain And 100% reason to remember the name Shinoda is obviously intending all those items to add up to 100 percent to "remember the name," but because the musician uses the word "and," technically his lyrics add up to 200 percent. Someone did spot the less-than-correct math and called out Shinoda on Twitter. The Linkin Park vocalist responded by claiming artistic license. "'And 100%' sounded better than 'that's 100%,'" he replied.
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