"We spent the next few months reworking the lyrics," says Shinoda. The Linkin Park musician says that in retrospect, he now realizes the amount of time this was going to cost Bruce in allowing for this change, and that the director was putting plenty of faith in him not fully knowing if he could pull it off. I thought we could retain the 'story' of the song, and maybe even make it more funny, but doing it as a rap song over a funk track."
I described the types of music I was listening to: rap, funk, and rock. 'OK, maybe…how would that work?' he asked. 'Would you let me change the song, and take the Elvis stuff out, and replace it with a style of music I like?' I remember him smiling at me with a complicated look on his face that I didn’t understand. Shinoda says, "The following week, when the youth group meeting was over, I sat with Bruce privately. Think about what we could do to make it work,' he told me. 'Bruce,' I said, 'I can’t do that, I really, really don’t like Elvis.' He paused. I had grown up listening to Public Enemy, and Chuck D taught me to be anti-Elvis. But even worse, the Pharaoh number was a light, funny song in the style of Elvis. The Linkin Park musician recalled, "My stomach turned. "'Hey Mike,' he said, 'There are a lot of important roles to fill in this show, and I want you to consider playing the Pharaoh.'"
"After the first group meeting about the show, Bruce took me aside privately," Shinoda recalled.
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