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Fort Minor is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Machine Shop Recordings, Ryu, Skylar Grey, Styles of Beyond and JAY-Z. Those roots explain a lot about how Fort Minor arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mike Shinoda, Styles of Beyond, Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and DMX, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Skylar Grey, Celph Titled and John Legend, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 30 connections around Fort Minor, reaching back through Machine Shop Recordings and forward to Skylar Grey. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Fort Minor was a hip hop side project by American musician Mike Shinoda, who is better known as the rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, producer, and rapper of the rock band Linkin Park. The project's only album, The Rising Tied, was released in 2005. The album's fourth single "Where'd You Go" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Fort Minor connections
Fort Minor grew out of Machine Shop Recordings, Ryu, Skylar Grey and Styles of Beyond, shares an orbit with Mike Shinoda, Styles of Beyond, Jay-Z and Linkin Park and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, went on to shape Skylar Grey, Celph Titled and John Legend. 30 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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