Best Buy offered free *audio* downloads with Minutes To Midnight. I have NO IDEA what this Jeezy guy is talking about. The Best Buy downloads were the AOL performances . . .
Weren't the Best Buy downloads from the AOL session?
"3rd Encore Studios" is where Linkin Park rehearsed for their tour. It doesn't have anything to do with the recordings for AOL, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.
Listen to Chester's vocals at around the nine second mark on that clip. Frankly, I'm surprised they would release a performance with that kind of flaw left on there. I can't say for sure that we've never heard this performance, but I know what "Third Encore" is and I've heard the AOL performance many times. This is not the AOL performance.
Third Encore is a famous rehearsal studio in California. Chester doesn't quite nail the vocals on the chorus in that clip. Clearly. the AOL session was not used for this single.