Remember the Name

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Remember The Name is the second single from the 2005 Fort Minor album The Rising Tied. Fort Minor is a side project of Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.

Made about hockey player Ales Hemsky According to Shinoda, the song is "breaking down the science of music", as evidenced by its chorus, systematically describing the necessities of making it big in the music business and gaining fame and recognition, hence the song's title:

"This is / Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill / Fifteen percent concentrated power of will / Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a / Hundred percent reason to remember the name"

The song introduces Shinoda and his friends Ryu and Tak of Styles Of Beyond who are heavily featured on Fort Minor's material. The verses are rapped in third person, each emcee talking about himself from the view of an outsider, with several references to Shinoda and SOB's past music and achievements.

"Remember The Name" was leaked onto the Internet on August 20, 2005, several months prior to the album's release. The song brought positive reviews from the hip hop community. It was also planned to be the first single from "The Rising Tied" but this changed just before the album came onto the shelves, and Fort Minor released "Petrified" and "Believe Me" instead, reserving "Remember The Name" for later.

The National Basketball Association used "Remember The Name" as the theme song for the 2006 NBA Playoffs. The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video game NBA Live 06.

It is also featured in promotional TV trailers for the 2006 movie, Gridiron Gang.