Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst appeared in the new episode of the Hot Ones Versus, the show where if people refuse to answer the questions asked to them, they eat a hot chicken wing.
In round 2, the rocker was asked to rank a few names from most to least talented. The list included bands he had “openly feuded with” — Slipknot and Creed. The singer, however, without giving it much thought, bit into a hot wing instead of answering.
Though Durst refused to talk about his feud with Slipknot, Corey Taylor openly shared his thoughts on it on another episode of the same show. “I love that this is coming up as I’m doing all this work on myself,” the singer said when asked to rank his feuds with Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, and Machine Gun Kelly from worst to best. “If I were to answer with my current self, I would say that a lot of things that I said were based off of my own ego, my own insecurities, my own arrogance.”
“If I were to say that with that ugly ego, I would say at the top I would put Limp Bizkit. Because, creatively, there are so many factors to that band that show and have been explored. And my issues truly weren’t even with Limp Bizkit. They were with Fred,” Taylor admitted. “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.”
Slipknot and Limp Bizkit had a public feud in the early 2000s. It escalated in February 2000 after Fred Durst allegedly made a comment in 1999, saying, “Slipknot fans are a bunch of fat, ugly kids.”
The comment quickly reached Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, and during their Australian tour, he, Joey Jordison, and Shawn Crahan responded to fan questions. When a fan asked about the rivalry between the bands, Taylor replied: “You would have to ask the Limp Bizkit question… You know what I had to say to that? Fred Durst is fat!” The singer added, “I’m a fat, ugly kid, and Slipknot fans, for the most part, enjoy all kinds of music, like Limp Bizkit, maybe. So what you’re basically saying is that your fans are fat, ugly kids too? You wanna talk sh*t on the people you care about?! WE WILL COME THERE AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”
Over time, the relationship between Taylor and Durst improved. In 2011, Taylor mentioned that Durst is just a person and even shared a photo with Durst’s kids, who liked Slipknot. By 2016, they were even sharing selfies together on Facebook.
