You Know What Time It Is: The Story of Limp Bizkit's Rollin'

Consider this your public service announcement - this episode is
about the kings of nu-metal, the royalty of rap-rock, and the
band responsible for the most red New York Yankee hats sold this
side of the millennium - Limp Bizkit.


If you’ve seen any of the footage from either of the Woodstock
‘99 Docs that came out a couple of years ago, or if you are of a
certain age to have lived through it - you’ll know that Limp
Bizkit - for better or for worse - were a BIG deal… like really
big.


You can head back in to the Encore Archives in our Evanescence,
Linkin Park, Sum 41 or Finger Eleven episodes to get a sense of
how popular aggressive, metal-tinged, hip-hop appropriating music
was in the early 2000s, but one could argue that none of it would
have been given such a wide blast radius in that era if it wasn’t
for the groundwork laid down by Fred Durst and the Boiz.


Of course *purists* will tell you that bands like Beastie Boys,
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, and even Faith
No More were the true innovators of the genre - and they’d be
right!


But where we’re going - we’re not bothering with such high minded
concepts as ‘innovation’ or ‘musicality’ - after all, the song
we’re talking about today is from a record called ‘Chocolate
Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water’; released in an era
where ‘Good’ music was defined as any song that had too many
swears on it. 


This is the Story of Limp Bizkit's Rollin' With newly unearthed
audio from the band themselves!