Inside The Feud Between Rage Against The Machine And Limp Bizkit

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

"We were up against Limp Bizkit, one of the dumbest bands in the history of music," Commerford later told ESPN Radio. "We're up against them and their singer made the video. So it was Limp Bizkit vs. Rage, Fred Durst-directed video vs. Michael Moore. And I'm sitting there with Michael and I'm like, 'Hey man, if that camera doesn't come over here, I'm climbing up that structure and I'm gonna sit there like a ... gargoyle and throw a wrench in this show.' And he's like, 'Tim, follow your heart.'"

Even after the whole stage-crashing debacle, Limp Bizkit continued to support their heroes. They regularly covered Rage songs and even spoke enthusiastically about their musical inspirations. "This is dedicated to the rap-rock band that started this s***," frontman Fred Durst told an audience in 2014, just before the band launched into a cover of Rage's "Killing in the Name." He later told the crowd the song had changed his life.

But while Durst proudly thanked his idols publicly over the years, the members of Rage Against the Machine only professed embarrassment from the honors. "I do apologize for Limp Bizkit," Commerford told Rolling Stone in 2015. "I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such bulls*** ... as far as I'm concerned, we're the only one that matters."

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