Limp bizkit full discography tpb12/13/2023 Take it from somebody who has freestyled in ciphers with emcees from all over the world: nobody cares if you’re white. Give me extra credit for reverse discrimination.” Yawn. It’s a position of privilege and entitlement: “My handicap is I’m not native to this culture. Being a guest and wanting extra attention for how well-behaved you are is a slap in the face of hip-hop. Take Eminem (kinda) clearing the air with Lord Jamar as proof. They’re not new to the genre, but white people are guests in the culture of hip-hop. The problem is that even if they are good, the fact that they’re white is used as a crutch: “Man, he/she raps well for a white boy/girl.” There’s a long list of white rappers who are god-awful.īut, honestly, the problem with white rappers isn’t their penmanship as “emcees”. Yikes, yikes, baby: a note on white rappers But I am about to prove, hands down that, while he may be a limited one (and, I admit, sometimes a corny one), Fred Durst is not a bad rapper.Īnd here’s the case why. I won’t argue that the “redneck fucker from Jacksonville” is a great rapper. I won’t argue that rhyming “nookie” with “cookie” is genius lyricism. That’s where I want to set the record straight, and clear Fred Durst from hip-hop’s culture vulture shame list. Subsequently, the band still appears to be shaking their perceived cultural appropriation of hip-hop. Surely people still aren’t laying into the Florida collective? But in the wake of their recent album release, what feels more under scrutiny, and what’s always been the target on Limp Bizkit’s back, is Fred’s rapping ability. We’re now 20+ years after the band’s 15 minutes of fame - highly influential, however brief - sorry boys, I’ll always love you. What’s curious about Still Sucks is its dedication to laughing in the face of Limp Bizkit haters. But when it works, Still Sucks is Limp Bizkit doing what they do best: keeping nu-metal alive - the sub-genre that simply will not die even though its glory days’ might be impossible to recapture. “Love the Hate” is essentially a shitposting Reddit thread in real-time. This latest album starts strong - all first four tracks slap - but it drastically dips in the middle, courtesy of multiple tracks coming in at around the 2-minute mark. The “we’re over the hill, and we don’t care” energy is self-evident with record names like: “Out of Style”, “Dad Vibes”, and “Love the Hate.” The newest release’s title suggests a self-aware but unapologetic middle finger to Limp Bizkit’s detractors. In 2021, 24 years after their debut album Three Dollar Bill Y’all, John, Sam, Lethal, Wes, and Fred released the hilariously titled Still Sucks - their first album since 2011’s Gold Cobra. But their original lineup’s been restored since the 2005 EP The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) - despite a brief hiatus in the late noughties, and Sam Rivers dropping off from touring between 20 due to illness. A major sonic disruption was when Wes left for a couple of years. Since their heyday, Limp Bizkit has undergone some lineup changes. Limp Bizkit’s core lineup, like all great bands - yes, I didn’t mistype, great-is the sum of unique musicians, each with a signature sound: John Otto’s bone-rattling mix of boom-bap and head-banging percussion Sam Rivers’ heavy stank-face funk basslines DJ Lethal’s frenetic (and sometimes buried) cuts and scratches most significantly Wes Borland’s experimental and disorienting syncopated vibrato riffs and licks and all of this crowned (in a red Yankee fitted) by Fred Durst’s blend of skater boy scream vocals and b-boy rhyming. Their albums Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water (2000) were the peak of their dominance: the former delivered hit singles “ Nookie” and “ Break Stuff” and scored them two Grammy nominations the latter gifted the world “ My Generation”, “ Rollin”, “ My Way”, and the Mission Impossible II theme song “ Take a Look Around” - which notched them a third Grammy nod. The undisputed kings of 00’s nu-metal, more specifically rap-rock/ rap metal, were the Multi-Platinum-selling Limp Bizkit. But from the late ’90s to mid-2000s, the likes of Korn, Linkin Park, P.O.D, and Papa Roach ruled the radio airways. The yesteryear era of baggy khaki shorts, bike chains, spiky dyed hair, and backward New Era baseball caps, moshing to the smooshed warblings of crunchy guitars and tokenistic rapping/DJing has been keenly swept under the mainstream rug. In 2022, nu-metal is a near-forgotten subgenre of music. Image: Limp Bizkit Park Live Moscow 2013 Photographer: Eva Ivanova
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