New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Linkin Park are set to return with a new album titled One More Light next month. Before it arrives, though, the band have unveiled their latest venture into hip-hop-heavy territory with a collaborative cut featuring Pusha T and Stormzy.
"Enemies trying to read me," he raps. "You're all looking highly illiterate / Blindly forgetting if I'm in the mix / You won't find an equivalent / I've been here killing it / Longer than you've been alive, you idiot."
Following a hook from vocalist Chester Bennington, Pusha T steps to the plate. "King Push," he proclaims. "They got a chair for him." Then Stormzy appears with a glimpse at his growth: "Mandem were linking tings in parks / Now I got a chune with Linkin Park."
The track arrives with a lyric video, which features gloomy fog-filled scenes, rainy nights, and sci-fi special effects. According to Shinoda, however, the song was actually inspired by a sport. "I'm a basketball fan," he told Genius.
"When I was writing this song, I wanted to capture that moment at the game when someone fouls out, and the cheerleaders sing and kick out the ejected player."
Linkin Park's seventh album, One More Light, the follow-up to 2014's The Hunting Party, is due May 19.