In the early 2000’s Slipknot and Limp Bizkit dominated the rock charts.
Limp bizkit for their part had their fare share of feuds during this time including
with groups Taproot, Creed, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson as well as System of a Down
and several other groups.
I’ve covered the taproot and Creed feud.
The links are down below.
But today I want to talk about the feud that Limp Bizkit had with Slipknot.
Stay tuned for the full story.
While it’s thought that the feud really began with Fred Durst of limp bizkit giving
an interview in 1999 calling Slipknot fans and i quote fat, ugly kids.”
By his own admission Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor took full responibility for starting
the feud during one of his solo shows.
In true Corey Taylor fashion it was all my fault.
The funny thing is it honestly didn't even start with bizkit it started with me talking
about Korn.
Not so much Korn but David Silveria's wonderful underwear commercials are you kidding me?
We were out on ozzfest 99 and we're in this truckstop somewhere in texas and everything
has dust and oil on it and i'm clawing around and looking for something to read on the bus
whatever and it wasn't revolver i think it was hit parader it's like 2 in the morning
and i don't really care at this point it's something i'll take with me into the.
I flip it over and who do i see on the back cover in underwear is the drummer of korn
and the whole band is in there at that point and i just go what the is this?
Klown loses his and throws his hat what is this coming to so i bought every copy they
had so itried to buy every copy i could find at every progressive truck stop we stopped
into and i started burning it on stage in ephigy and i was like here's your metal, we've
all become calvin klein models and i caught some heat for it and fred and legal said something
about us in the press oh you're five minutes old what do you know and i said well being
a fan i know a lot.
So that became the beginning of my f fred durst campaign.
i would write f fred come on cory change it up.
The first limp bizkit album wasn't bad i remember clown bringing it over and going you gotta
check this out it's ross robinson and the production is great blah blah blah and then
nookie came out and i was like what the f is this.
Ah Christ.
I've never been a fan to be honest.
So in retrospect i was just a young pissed off you suck i wanna rule the world you're
in my way.
It was shortly after Durst made the comments that mtv reported that during a december of
1999 writing and i quote “The group's singer, Corey Taylor, told
the crowd at Slipknot's New York show Monday night a story about an "anonymous rock star,"
telling the audience, "He said, and I quote, 'Slipknot's fans are a bunch of fat, ugly
kids.'"
"So I said, 'Fred, you may have a lot of money and be all over the world, but when you talk
s**t about Slipknot and our fans… we will kill you."
MTV would reach out to Slipknot’s camp for further comment but a spokesperson for the
band opted to withhold further comments claiming Taylor and Durst would address the matter
directly.
As Slipknot traveled down under to tour Australia they would appear on MTV and took fan questions,
one of which asked about their relationship with Limp Bizkit as you can see here.
what's going on with limp bizkit is there a bit of a rivalry going on or what cause
you'd just kill them anyway.
Limp Bizkit who?
You had to ask the one limp bizkit question.
Okay i am going to go on record right now you guys are ready are you guys ready.
Limp bizkit, somebody in limp bizkit had the audacity to say to one of our good friends
whose a vary good reliable source that slipknot fans are nothing but a bunch of fat ugly kids.
You know why Hold on a second you know what i said to that?
Fred Durst is fat.
Hold on a sec, hold on I want to tell you what i said to that one i am a fat ugly kid
two slipknot fans for the most part enjoy all kinds of music like limp bizkit maybe.
So what you are basically saying is that you're fans are fat ugly fans too?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Is that what you wanna say?
You wanna talk about people you care about we will come and kill you.
Corey Taylor would reveal that during one of his solo shows that he would mee Fred Durst
backstage at a soloshow as you can see here.
i can't the thing that sucks is that his kids are huge slipknot fans.
I met them he brought them up to me he brought them up to us, like Fred Durst's kids like
this big are total maggots.
He came up and was like man can my kids get a picture with you yes they can.
In 2011 Limp Bizkit would release their album Gold Cobra which featured the song 90.2.10
which gave a shoutout to Corey Taylor.
Then in 2014 Limp Bizkit would play Slipknot’s the metal festival knotfest in japan.
In more recent years the pair have been photographed together on social media.
With the tragic passing of former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison Limp Bizkit would find
themselves playing a show in Iowa in the summer of 2021 and took a brief moment to pay tribute
to the musician.
Durst would tell the crowd and i quote “Slipknot’s from somewhere around here, aren’t they?”
The crowd would start a chanting Joey’s name.
Durst would go on to say “Rest in peace, let’s hear it,” “That’s beautiful.
Life is short and it’s always fleeting so, man, let’s just remember all we are is right
now.
Let’s make the most of it, let’s make it fucking awesome.
You never know, man.
You never never never know.”
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