Tom Morello Sets Record Straight On Audioslave/DMX Collaboration

Yahoo! Music, Oct 30, 2002 12:00 pm PST
(10/30/02, 12 p.m. ET) -- Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello set the record straight on his band's collaboration with rapper DMX. Morello told LAUNCH that the band got together with the rapper "a couple of months ago."

Morello explained, "We sent him a track that he just loved and we were originally going to do it for a soundtrack, but he loved it so much he wanted to put it on his next record. So we said, 'All right, fine,' and we came up with a new track which is really one of the most slamming...It's probably the definitive...Rock-rap has had a nice long life, and I'd have to say that it's gonna be tough to cap this one."

Morello added, "It's a song called 'Wrecking Ball.' It's not on our record. We're trying to find the right place for it to come out. It's really a phenomenally roaring track with DMX and (Audioslave vocalist) Chris (Cornell), or DMX and Audioslave. We're not sure where those songs...The one song will come out on DMX's record. I'm not sure where the other song will come out."

On reports that a song called "Here I Come" is on the Cradle 2 The Grave soundtrack, Morello responded, "I don't know anything about that. I read something about that in Rolling Stone. I don't have any idea what that movie is and I certainly know that's nothing we've talked about."

Audioslave hits record stores November 19. The first single from the band, "Cochise," is currently at radio.

-- Darren Davis, New York and Gary Graff, Detroit

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