Fort Minor is a side-project of Mike Shinoda, the rapper, keyboardist and producer of Linkin Park. His debut album – The Rising Tied - was released on November the 22th of 2005 and has as the fourth single the most famous song of this project, Where’d You Go, that reached the top 5 at the Billboard Hot 100. The album was produced by Shinoda along with Jay-Z.
Both the name of the project and the name of the first album were a pretty intelligent choice of Shinoda. He puts together two opposite words “Minor” and “Fort” and the title of his first album is also a prank because according to him all the invited artists by the time of the recording were all growing up together in the music industry.
This song was used in a promotional TV trailers for the 2006 movie Gridiron Gang, as well as the trailer for the remake of the movie The Karate Kid (2010). The National Basketball Association used Remember the Name as the theme song for the 2006 and 2007 NBA Playoffs as well as the 2008 NBA Draft. The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video game NBA Live 06.
In November 2006, Shinoda stated that he was going to take a break in this project, because of his dedication to his main band Linkin Park.
It's just ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
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