Limp Bizkit have entered rarified territory as their monumental hit “Break Stuff” has joined the Spotify Billions Membership. The music was initially featured on the band’s 1999 sensation, Important Different.
Limp Bizkit, led by singer Fred Durst, emerged in 1997 with their debut LP, Three Greenback Invoice, Y’all$. In a 2014 interview with Steel Hammer, he spoke about how the influences featured on that first album helped form their second LP.
Describing Korn, Durst mentioned: “We were already Limp Bizkit at that point. I was in several bands before that, rapping over old Metallica-style riffs and Vulgar Display Of Power s__t, but Korn influenced us. Them, Rage Against The Machine, Urban Dance Squad… there were a few bands mixing it and Korn brought the heavier element that I’d been missing and we were doing, and we could relate to them. Jonathan [Davis] wasn’t rapping but it came from the same place as me because he’d been bullied and that was something I could feel and relate to.”
This sentiment tied again to one thing Durst mentioned to Kerrang! again in 1999 earlier than the arrival of Important Different: “We’ll be leading our own pack. The beats are tighter and the riffs are more straightforward and powerful.” Although they emerged as a part of the nu-metal renaissance, Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff,” and Important Different, marked their pursuit of a brand new sound.
The video for “Break Stuff“ stays a basic within the rock canon, that includes cameos from the aforementioned Jonathan Davis, Lily Aldridge, Eminem and his daughter Hailie, Snoop Dogg, Pauly Shore, and Tony Hawk’s son Riley.
Regardless of the thrilling information of “Break Stuff” becoming a member of Spotify’s Billions Membership, the information comes throughout a heartbreaking time for the band. Earlier this month, Sam Rivers, the band’s bassist and one of many founding members, died. His bandmates introduced the information in a tribute put up on Instagram. He was 48. In a video posted individually, Durst known as Rivers a “legend” and “such a gifted, unbelievably sweet and wonderful person.”
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