Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington took his life on July 20, bringing an abrupt end to his musical journey. Throughout his lucrative career, he’d collaborated with Hip Hop artists like Rob Swift of the X-ecutioners, DJ Z-Trip and JAY-Z.
JAY, who teamed up with Linkin Park for the 2004 collaborative EP Collision Course, stopped by the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge earlier this week and performed their breakout hit, “Numb/Encore.”
After his performance, he spoke to the BBC’s Clara Amfo about mental health.
“Hopefully his death serves as a wake-up call,” JAY said. “Mental health is a real thing. You never know what people are going through. Money or fame doesn’t mean anything if you’re not happy inside.
“A lot of people, we go on and we don’t deal with what’s happening to us,” he continued. “Especially if you’re a performer like that. You just start numbing yourself. You just become numb. He’s singing it. You just go and get bigger audiences and things like that and you move further away from yourself.”
Later in the performance, he also performed “Family Feud” from his critically acclaimed album, 4:44.
Watch “Numb/Encore” and “Family Feud” above.
Why did Jay Z not exhibit greater sympathy toward Kanye’s mental health issues? It’s this sort of hypocrisy which leads many hip hop fans to believe that Jay is, and always has been, self-serving and disingenuous.
Kanye’s still breathing
Chester Bennington was breathing a couple of months ago too. Does that mean that he was fine while he was alive?
Yeah I went in with barely any knowledge of the situation(s) and whatif jay-z had anything to say about any of it I’m super high and me posting on here makes no sense cause I’m not a fan of kanyes except his old beats for roc around college graduate and not of jay zs except afew tracks off American gangster. New Rock shit is dope though. Duck down still goes dumb.
Not sure egomaniacal behavior is a mental illness…
King HOV a real one for speaking on topics like this. Why hasn’t broke ass Nas touched on this subject? I think he might be on suicide watch. He can’t take being broke and paying monthly child support to Kelis anymore. That would make me suicidal for sure.
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This was/is..
Stupid.
a wake up call to understand how pedophilia and satanic abuse is real and chester and cornell was all about helping kids
Chester and Cornell were helping kids with the art of noose tying.
Since white people cant discuss black people without being racist black people shouldn’t act like they know about white people eiTher
Blacks are the minority in this country, a lot of white people don’t have to interact with us on a daily basis, so they really don’t know. Chances are their doctors, lawyers, teachers, insurance companies etc., aren’t black. And that’s our own issue to iron out, but if your only familiarity with a whole race is based on sports and entertainment, chances are you won’t know shit about those people for real…
When do we hear Camron make an emotional performance of a remix to a song of a relevant artist who just passed away? Never that’s when
Still got that ”Do What Thou Wilt” hoodie Mr Carter?