Linkin Park - Underground V4.0 (2004)
This EP is pretty cool at times! Sure, you've got the sore spot of this EP starting with "Sold My Soul to Yo Mama" which is just a mostly-instrumental DJ cut that you can safely toss aside as being filler, but you know what this EP has? "Standing in the Middle (feat. Motion Man)", what a great track! It focuses heavily on the hip-hop elements of the band, much like their early-early material, and makes you think about how GOAT Linkin Park would've been had they remained like the nu-metal version of The Roots, or at least put out a full-length release like this. YES, I know about Fort Minor but it's not even slightly close to being the same shit, damn it! Other cool shit includes the live hip-hop medley "Step Up / Nobody's Listening / It's Goin' Down" which is HYPE AS FUCK, and of course I gotta give props to their cover of "Wish" by Nine Inch Nails, which really isn't -that- great, but I like it because it introduced me to the song/band when I was a teenager (plus Chester sounds great) but overall you probably won't get -that- much mileage out of this EP. Ah well. Good shit for what it is.. Just not a real heavy-hitter in their discography.
7/10
