Kenji

Album: The Rising Tied (2005)
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Songfacts®:

  • Fort Minor is a side project for Mike Shinoda of Linkin' Park. This song is about his family, and their internment during World War II. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, many Japanese Americans were forced into camps in retaliation and held there for the duration of the war.
  • The interviews that play in this song are Shinoda's father and his aunt, who were both held in camps. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR

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