’s Corey Taylor has reflected on his turn-of-the-millennium feud with frontman Fred Durst. The Slipknot vocalist touches on the beef in a new video interview with . During the discussion, Taylor is asked to rank three of the bands he’s previously feuded with in order of how much he likes their music: Nickelback, Machine Gun Kelly and Limp Bizkit.
Of the three, the singer says Limp Bizkit are his favourite, saying his previous issues were not with the band but just with Durst. “I love that this is coming up as I’m doing all this work on myself,” Taylor laughs (via ). “If I were to answer with my current self, I would say that a lot of the things that I said were based off of my own ego, my own insecurities, my own arrogance.
If I was gonna say it with that ugly ego, I would say at the top, I would put Limp Bizkit.” He continues: “Because, creatively, there are so many factors to that band. And my issues truly weren’t even with Limp Bizkit.
They were with Fred. You know, it wasn’t about the band. 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 things about us.
” In the early 2000s, Taylor gave a now-famous interview to Australian TV wear he tore into a member of Limp Bizkit, seemingly Durst, for branding Slipknot fans “nothing but a bunch of fat, ugly kids”. “You know what I said to that?” Taylor responded. “1: I’m a fat, ugly kid.
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