Frontman Corey Taylor offered his rankings from the perspective of the "ugly ego" he blamed for his various spats Slipknot ’s Corey Taylor and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan revealed their favourite rockstar masks and opened up about their various music feuds while going head-to-head on Hot Ones Versus . READ MORE: Corey Taylor: “Don’t feel special – I hate everybody!” The metal musicians appeared on the viral online show, which sees celebrities take on “hot questions and even hotter wings”. During the Q&A segment, Clown asked Taylor to rank three of his most notorious rockstar feuds with Limp Bizkit , Machine Gun Kelly and Nickelback .
“I love that this is coming up as I’m doing all this work on myself,” the frontman laughed before revealing his ranking. The singer prefaced his answer by admitting that “a lot of the things that I said were based off of my own ego, my own insecurities, my own arrogance”. Answering with that “ugly ego”, however, Limp Bizkit came out on top.
“My issues truly weren’t even with Limp Bizkit, they were with Fred [Durst],” he explained. “It was just about what Fred represented at the time, the things that were being said and the people in the band that were actually saying stuff about us.” In 2000, Taylor responded to the Limp Bizkit frontman allegedly calling Slipknot fans “a bunch of fat, ugly kids”.
While appearing on Australian TV (per Metal Hammer ), Taylor addressed the rumoured spat by suggest Slipknot fans.