Limp Bizkit

Limp Bizkit is an influental American Rapcore band and with Ko?n, are often credited with the popularization of the genre sometimes dubbed nu metal. The band is signed to Interscope Records/Geffen Records. For a short time, the band spelled their name in lowercase (limpbizkit).

Significant Other

In 1999, Limp Bizkit released their second album, Significant Other. The first single “Nookie,” was a runaway hit.

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1999 - Significant Other

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The huge success this single received however was rumored to be because certain radio stations were offered payola to play “Nookie” multiple times (some even played the songs three times in a row), A few radio disc jockeys claim Universal (the parent company of Interscope) were paying fifty dollars to programming directors every time “Nookie” was played. Limp Bizkit and Interscope have repeatedly denied this story however, and further note there is no evidence supporting such claims (though it has happened before).

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Radio station - Payola - Disc jockey - Universal - Interscope

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More scandal would follow in the same year. In the summer of 1999, Limp Bizkit played Woodstock '99. During Limp Bizkit's performance, fans begin to tear plywood from the walls of the stage and from the "tower" used by media outlets to cover the concert. There were also several rapes and sexual assaults during the group's performance. Tensions ran high and violence continued to occur, culminating in blazes and looting by the end of the show. Some concert goers claim Durst had incited the violence. Durst has stated that none of the comments he made that day were intended to cause violence. The issue was later addressed in the video for the single "Rearranged", which features the band being judged and "executed" for the Woodstock debacle.

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Woodstock '99 - Plywood - Rape - Executed

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Controversy soon started to overshadow their music. In that same year Durst would become involved in feuds with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, and with the band Slipknot. Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor mocked Fred Durst in the Nine Inch Nails music video for “Starfuckers, Inc.” (also mocked in the video were Billy Corgan and Manson himself. The brunt of the mockery was, however, directed at Courtney Love).

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Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails - Slipknot - Marilyn Manson - Music video - Billy Corgan - Courtney Love

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Reznor later proclaimed "Limp Bizkit suck and everyone knows it". Fred Durst stated that Reznor should be careful, as Durst was very influential at Interscope Records (Reznor is also contracted to Interscope Records); this comment caused an uproar. People claimed Durst practiced "mafia" style business tactics. These accusations became more frequent after an associate of the band Taproot released a threatening message Durst had left on his answering machine. Durst claimed he was simply misunderstood and was not violent or negative. However, Durst later had a very bitter and almost violent feud with Scott Stapp of Creed.

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Mafia - Taproot - Scott Stapp - Creed

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