Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst appeared in the latest episode of Hot Ones Versus, the show where guests eat a hot chicken wing if they refuse to answer questions.
In round 2, Durst was asked to rank a few bands from most to least talented. The list included bands he had “openly feuded with” — Slipknot and Creed. Instead of answering, Durst quickly bit into a hot wing without much thought.
While Durst stayed silent about his feud with Slipknot, Corey Taylor shared his thoughts on the same show in another episode. When asked to rank his feuds with Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, and Machine Gun Kelly from worst to best, Taylor said, “I love that this is coming up as I’m doing all this work on myself. 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.”
He explained further: “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. 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 got worse in February 2000 after Fred Durst allegedly made a comment in 1999, saying, “Slipknot fans are a bunch of fat, ugly kids.”
The comment reached Corey Taylor, who responded during Slipknot’s Australian tour. When asked by a fan about the rivalry, Taylor said: “You would have to ask the Limp Bizkit question… You know what I had to say to that? Fred Durst is fat!” He continued, “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 the years, the relationship between Taylor and Durst improved. In 2011, Taylor said that Durst is just a person and even shared a photo with his kids, who liked Slipknot. By 2016, the two were sharing selfies together on Facebook.
