Editing Collision Course (EP) (section)

==Background and production==
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[[Mike Shinoda]] revealed in his 2004 Grammy acceptance speech that he would be mashing up with Jay-Z for a record under MTV's Mash Ups show.

The network allowed Jay-Z to choose a group or artist for the mash-up. Jay contacted Shinoda, who began experimenting with mixing the tracks before sending some examples to him. As a result, Jay-Z began working with Shinoda through email. The two decided that instead of combining the existing tracks for the live performance on MTV, they wanted to re-work and re-record parts of the songs to make them fit better. Shinoda explains, "Jay and I realized it's better to re-perform the rap vocals if you're gonna do it to a new beat because the vibe changes and you have to deliver your verse a little differently."<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite web|last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1491889/20041028/story.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041029140127/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1491889/20041028/story.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 29, 2004 |title=Jay-Z And Linkin Park Show Danger Mouse How It's Done – News Story &#124; Music, Celebrity, Artist News &#124; MTV News |publisher=Mtv.com |date=2004-10-28 |access-date=2010-07-26}}</ref> Shinoda asked his bandmates to re-record instrumental and vocal tracks as well, and ultimately both parties decided they wanted to release the studio tracks.<ref name="mtv.com" /> The entire album was put together within four days.<ref>Making of Collision Course</ref>

Sometimes, behind-the-scenes audio can be heard within the album, such as Jay-Z saying "You're wasting your talent, Randy!" before "Big Pimpin'/Papercut", or Shinoda saying "This is fun" before "Izzo/In the End".

''Collision Course'' was the first album of Linkin Park that contained a [[Parental Advisory]] sticker, since most of Jay-Z's verses contain profanity (although Shinoda and [[Chester Bennington]] are also heard using vulgar language on the album). This album was also made in an edited/censored version. However, the clean version of the album left the words "bitch", "ass", and "hoes" uncensored, which means that "[[Izzo (H.O.V.A.)|Izzo]]/[[In the End]]" is the same on the clean and explicit versions.

A year after the release of ''Collision Course'', Jay-Z was the executive producer on Mike Shinoda's solo effort [[Fort Minor]]'s ''[[The Rising Tied]]''. Also, the song "High Road" from the same record talks about how some critics negatively received ''Collision Course''.