This pairing may appear like strange bed-fellows but Metallica seems enthusiastic about the collaboration. The chart topping metal band posted the following on their website to enlighten their diehard fans about their experimentation with rap-metal, “Swizz Beatz explains how the unlikely pair hooked up: ‘I knew I wanted to do a rock ‘n’ roll track and I knew I wanted to get the biggest act possible to do it, but I never thought in a million years that I’d be working with Metallica on this. They had two songs already that I really liked. I took those and combined them into one song. Then I called Ja Rule and told him I needed him to be on what could be the biggest song of his career. I told him to guess who he’d be working with on it and he was naming all these people he thought it was and finally, I said, "It’s Metallica," and he said, "Hell yeah!" This song is a blessing. When people hear it, they won’t believe it!’"

The Metallica.com post continues with this quote from Lars Ulrich, "I’ve never heard anything quite like that. It sits in a different place than anything else I’ve heard. I’ve never heard anything that sits right where this sits and that’s pretty cool." The other members seem equally enthusiastic about the new direction their music is taking, “Kirk Hammett also had a fine old time, enthusiastically describing the final song as ‘unique’, whilst James Hetfield said, ‘I think they did a great job. There were riffs I had heard before somewhere,’ he added, smiling, ‘and I think the song is really cool and different, extremely different.’"

So are we hearing the first rumblings of a new musical direction for Metallica? Will James soon be exchanging his cries of  “Master!” for “Bling-Bling”?  Only time will tell but you can hear the unusual track when the album hits stores on July 16th. 

Track Listing for "Swizz Beatz Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories"

1. Intro
2. Swizz Beatz - Ghetto Stories
3. Jadakiss & Ron Isley - Big Business
4. Turn It Up (Interlude)
5. Swizz Beatz & Busta Rhymes - Endalay
6. Shyne & Mashonda - Shyne
7. Mashonda & LL Cool J - Ghetto Love
8. Alien (Interlude)
9. Styles - Good Times
10. Swizz Beatz & Lil' Kim - Gone Delirious
11. Noreaga - N.O.R.E.
12. Baby & Yung Wun - Let Me See You Do Your Thing
13. Eve - Island Spice
14. Bounty Killer - Guilty
15. Nas, Fat Joe & Cassidy - Salute Me (Remix)
16. I'm In Love Again Interlude 
17. Metallica & Ja Rule - We Did It Again

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