Editing Collision Course (EP) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/collision-course-r718671/review |title=Collision Course |author=Jeffries, David |work=[[allmusic]] |access-date=2011-07-25}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = C−<ref name=EW>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/12/03/mtv-ultimate-mash-ups-presents-jay-zlinkin-park-collision-course/ |title=MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents— Jay-Z/Linkin Park: Collision Course (2004) |author=Fiore, Raymond |date=3 December 2004 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |publisher=CNN |access-date=2011-07-25 |archive-date=2012-10-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011235508/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,831920,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name=Guardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/nov/26/popandrock.shopping5 |title=Jay-Z/Linkin Park, Collision Course |author=Lynskey, Dorian |date=26 November 2004 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[HipHopDX]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Hiphopdx"/>
| rev5 = ''[[The Independent]]''
| rev5score = {{rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/story.jsp?story=586685|title=Album: Jay-Z / Linkin Park - Collision Course|website=[[The Independent]]|last=Gill|first=Andy|date=26 November 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041230195859/http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/story.jsp?story=586685 |access-date=13 April 2025|archive-date=30 December 2004 }}</ref>
| rev6      = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6Score = 3/10<ref name=NME>{{cite web |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/name/7551 |title=Jay-Z/Linkin Park: Collision Course |author=Long, Pat |date=11 December 2004 |work=[[NME]] |access-date=2011-07-22}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]''
| rev7score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-12-02/music_discs7.php|title=COLLISION COURSE|website=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]|last=Perlich|first=Tim|date=9 December 2004|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050410170440/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-12-02/music_discs7.php |access-date=13 April 2025|archive-date=10 April 2005 }}</ref>
| rev8      = ''RapReviews''
| rev8Score = 7.5/10<ref name="Raprev"/>
| rev9      = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/collision-course-20041209 |title=Collision Course review |author=Hoard, Christian |date=9 December 2004 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]  |access-date=2011-07-22}}</ref>
| rev10      = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10Score = B+<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fyLttHWpa9EC&dq=%22Collision+Course%22+%22Spin%22&pg=PA99|title=SPIN Jan 2005|website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|last=Shepherd|first=Julianne|date=1 January 2005|access-date=13 April 2025}}</ref>
}}

''Collision Course'' received generally mixed reviews from [[music critics]]. David Jeffries of [[AllMusic]] praised the album, calling it "awesomely fun".<ref name=allmusic /> K.B. Tindal of ''HipHopDX'' also equally praised the album, saying that the project "will open a passageway for artists who want to dare to be different as well as those who want to work hard to maintain that difference."<ref name=Hiphopdx>{{cite web |url=http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.495/title.jay-z-linkin-park-collision-course |title=Jay-Z/Linkin Park Collision Course Review |author=Tindal, K.B. |date=15 December 2004 |work=HipHopDX |access-date=2011-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006033317/http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.495/title.jay-z-linkin-park-collision-course |archive-date=6 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Steve Juon of RapReviews called the album "an experiment which bodes well since for the most part these two artists {{sic|compli|ment|nolink=y|expecting=complement}} each other."<ref name=Raprev>{{cite web |url=http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2004_12_cocourse.html |title=Jay-Z/Linkin Park :: Collision Course :: Warner Bros. Records |author=Joun, Steve |date=7 December 2004 |work=RapReviews |access-date=2011-07-22}}</ref>

Meanwhile, Raymond Fiore of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', gave a negative review of the album, saying that the pairing of Linkin Park and Jay-Z "comes off like a sanitized nonevent."<ref name=EW /> At the [[48th Grammy Awards]], the song "[[Numb/Encore]]", a mash-up of "[[Numb (Linkin Park song)|Numb]]" by [[Linkin Park]] and "[[Encore (Jay-Z song)|Encore]]" by [[Jay-Z]], won the [[Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url =http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/grammys-2015/5877097/top-10-biggest-grammy-upsets-of-the-past-10-years | title = Top 10 Biggest GRAMMY Upsets Of The Past 10 Years | author = Lipshutz, Jason|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media | date = February 4, 2015}}</ref>