Linkin Park’s seventh album One More Light is out now and one of its standout singles is “Good Goodbye” featuring Stormzy and Pusha T. It’s the band’s second collab with Pusha, following a 2013 remix of “I’ll Be Gone.” The track is co-produced by Brad Delson and Mike Shinoda.
“There’s an etiquette to how you put together a song with multiple people on it because you want to show respect to everyone involved and make sure they’re each doing a verse that represents them well,” Mike Shinoda tells Genius. “They each have their shot at it, right? And I had done my verse first and then sent it to Pusha, and then Stormzy heard it separate from Pusha. Nobody heard anyone else’s verse when they wrote their verse. I prefer that. Because once people start hearing each other’s verses and stuff then you have a reaction. I don’t mind Pusha hearing my verse before he writes his, but I hate for him to feel like he wrote his verse and then I touched mine. That would be messed up. I would never do that.”
Linkin Park sat down with Genius for the latest episode of Verified, breaking down their hit. Watch them go line-for-line with “Good Goodbye” in the video above.