The birth of “In The End” has its own characteristic story. Mike Shinoda remembered building the core of the track in a rehearsal studio at Hollywood and Vine, working through the night in a room with no windows. He had no idea what time of day it was. He simply slept when he got tired and kept working until the song took shape. He described it as an overnight session in a “really horrible” space in West Hollywood, where he stayed awake until morning writing the now famous piano motif and the rap verses. The first person who heard the song was Rob, who told him, in Shinoda’s own paraphrase, that this was exactly the kind of song he wanted the band to write.