Collision course is a cd/dvd digipak released by rap legend jay-z and rock giants Linkin park. Released on november 30th 2004, the album was classed as an EP due to the short length of the CD; being only 21:18 minutes and 6 tracks long. The album sold 1,934,000 just in America and over 5 million worldwide.
The DVD in the digipak contained behind the scenes footage of jay-z and the band and 5 scenes from a live preformance.
Band member Mike Shinoda revealed in his 2004 acceptance speech at the grammy's that he would be working with Jay-Z for a project under MTV's Mash Ups show. MTV allowed Jay-Z to choose a group or artist for the mash-up to make the show with. Jay contacted the group, who began experimenting with mixing the tracks before sending some examples to him. As a result, Jay-Z began working personally with Shinoda by 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 asked his bandmates to re-record instrumental and vocal tracks, whilst jay-z rerecorded lyrics so they worked better with the new tracks; ultimately both parties decided they wanted to release the studio tracks.
As the both music acts involved in the project are both household names there was no real massive ad campaign for the album. It has been known as a bit off a side project for both parties involved, but jay-z and the band both done interviews (especially for MTV) and let their fans know about the project.
The album's cover is typically Linkin Park, very grundgy and gritty using dark basic colours. Despite this the cover definatly has elements of the hip hop culture in featuring images of boom boxes and spraypaint effect visuals.
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