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"Kenji" is a song off the album The Rising Tied
The Rising Tied

The Rising Tied is the debut album of Hip hop music ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005 through Linkin Park's Warner Bros....
 by Fort Minor
Fort Minor

Fort Minor is the hip hop music side project of Mike Shinoda, vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's first solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied, was released in 2005 with the singles "Where'd You Go" featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga and "Remember the Name" featuring Styles of Beyond....
. The song features clips from an interview with the father and aunt of lead singer Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
 and tells the vivid story of the life of Mike's family before, during and after World War II including their internment at Manzanar
Manzanar

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II....
. The title is of reference to Shinoda's middle name.

The lyrics of the song tell of how a man "Kenji" was a Japanese immigrant just before the World War II started, and how when the war started all the Japanese were moved over to camps, where they lived in fair conditions, but when they moved back how they were subjected to racial discrimination, at the end of the song Shinoda speaks of how Kenji is fictional, but he was just a cover name for the people that such events actually fell upon.

Another version is available off the Fort Minor Militia Tracks featuring an extended version of the interview featured on "Kenji" available for download off the Fort Minor Website.

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The Rising Tied

The Rising Tied is the debut album of Hip hop music ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005 through Linkin Park's Warner Bros....
, including Kenji.






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"Kenji" is a song off the album The Rising Tied
The Rising Tied

The Rising Tied is the debut album of Hip hop music ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005 through Linkin Park's Warner Bros....
 by Fort Minor
Fort Minor

Fort Minor is the hip hop music side project of Mike Shinoda, vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's first solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied, was released in 2005 with the singles "Where'd You Go" featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga and "Remember the Name" featuring Styles of Beyond....
. The song features clips from an interview with the father and aunt of lead singer Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
 and tells the vivid story of the life of Mike's family before, during and after World War II including their internment at Manzanar
Manzanar

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II....
. The title is of reference to Shinoda's middle name.

The lyrics of the song tell of how a man "Kenji" was a Japanese immigrant just before the World War II started, and how when the war started all the Japanese were moved over to camps, where they lived in fair conditions, but when they moved back how they were subjected to racial discrimination, at the end of the song Shinoda speaks of how Kenji is fictional, but he was just a cover name for the people that such events actually fell upon.

Another version is available off the Fort Minor Militia Tracks featuring an extended version of the interview featured on "Kenji" available for download off the Fort Minor Website.

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with Shinoda discussing the background stories of many of the tracks off The Rising Tied
The Rising Tied

The Rising Tied is the debut album of Hip hop music ensemble Fort Minor, the side project by Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda. The album was released on November 22, 2005 through Linkin Park's Warner Bros....
, including Kenji.