{"id":645246,"date":"2026-06-18T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:14:09","slug":"linkin-park-uk-rapper-thanks-mike-shinoda-for-changing-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645246\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkin Park: UK rapper thanks Mike Shinoda for changing her life"},"content":{"rendered":"

An up-and-coming UK rapper’s thanked Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda for “changing my life” after he praised one of her freestyles.<\/p>\n

Morgan Da Savage’s rap went viral after she performed on DJ and producer Toddla T’s independent music platform Steeze Factory.<\/p>\n

Shinoda mentioned her name when asked by BBC News at Download Festival who he’d want to collaborate with on a 2026 version of Collision Course, their 2004 mash-up album with Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

Da Savage says it feels “surreal” as she listened to Linkin Park growing up and all the attention means her song Innit is going to be released next week.<\/p>\n

Linkin Park became the first female-fronted band to headline the UK’s biggest rock festival<\/a> last weekend. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC at Download, Shinoda said it was “refreshing” to see Da Savage’s rap and he immediately showed it to his bandmates.<\/p>\n

“She was going crazy. Whatever’s happening over here [in the UK] is cool, it’s fresh, it’s got motion,” he said.<\/p>\n

When BBC Newsbeat caught up with Da Savage, she says she cried when she found out about the clip through a message on social media.<\/p>\n

“Linkin Park have gone on the FYP and they see me,” the 21-year-old says.<\/p>\n

“It’s unbelievable, I’m just so grateful to him to even say my name. <\/p>\n

“I was like ‘no way, he knows my name’. He could have said anybody and he’s gone Morgan Da Savage.<\/p>\n

“It just shows like what a real person he is even to do that for me. It’s changed my life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An up-and-coming UK rapper’s thanked Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda for “changing my life” after he praised one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}