You know where you were when you first heard about Collision Course. Whether you first saw Chester Bennington and Jay-Z rapping together on MTV, or crammed into the backseat of your mate’s Ford Fiesta to blast Numb/Encore through its tinny speakers, the 2004 collaboration was the hot topic on everyone’s lips. True to its name, Collision Course was a head-on cultural clash of titanic proportions.
Regardless of whether you were into hip-hop or metal, the news of the Collision Course union was unavoidable. When the world’s biggest rapper and the world’s leading rock band join forces, people are going to talk. And that’s no exaggeration: with seven number-one records under his belt, Jay-Z was hot shit, and Linkin Park had also sky-rocketed to global fame, 2003’s Meteora having topped charts globally, selling over 810,000 copies in the first week alone.
