Behind the Lyrix with The Durst--Part One

Published under username Fred Durst Has A Posse

As a service to K5, myself, The Durst, will be personally going over my albums, in depth and in detail. This is in order to give new insight about what was going on mentally with me at the time I produced the album, in order to give my listeners new context. See, I understand when a new Limp Bizkit cut comes out, people get all lost in the hype and immense popularity of the songs, and forget that real emotion and real thought go into the creation.

This week, I'll start with selections off the critically acclaimed and bestselling album Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water...

Though it garnered huge raves in the music media, after the juggernauts that were "Three Dollar Bill Y'all" and "Significant Other", some people thought that "Chocolate Starfish" was a slight let down. Now, this was when the album first came out, cuz Starfish is the kind of album that has a complexity that doesn't sink in right away. You gotta let it play a bunch of times before it's impact really sinks in.

Another thing that was artistically controversial about Chocolate Starfish is that it was one of our first attempts at a concept album. We wanted this to be our Pink Floyd moment: to have a record that stands along side Darkside of the Moon or The Wall. What was the concept? What is behind the Durst Code?

First of all, the character of The Chocolate Starfish figures prominently. Many people didn't know what the Starfish was about. Well, simply, the Chocolate Starfish is my anus, but you're not supposed to get that right away. It goes back to my roots in Kappa Tau Alpha house back in college, when you didn't wash your drawers, you got a brown stain in them that looked like a "chocolate starfish" (it was also mentioned in a hazing ritual which I'm bound by tradition and decency not to repeat here).

Why do I create my anus as a prominent character in a rap metal album? It represents my belief that everything in the world is shitty. In the first cut of the album (well, second if you count the intro track with the alien sayin' "Bizkits in the house...") called Hot Dog, I use the F-Word about 26 times. I was in a fucked up state during that song. For one thing, everybody was fucking with me. Especially that pissant Trent Reznor. Just cuz he has his own label on Interscope (I was VP there at the time and he publically stated that I was "an ignoranus").

Now, I just gotta say, Nine Inch Nails is the most PUSSY and WHINY bands I've ever heard. I have more respect for fucking Justin Timberlake than Reznor and faggit buddies. So I take his song "Closer" where he says "I wanna fuck you like an animal" and turn it around back at him. "You wanna fuck me like an animal" cuz that's where all his hate comes from. Trent Reznor is gay folks. Gays like NIN. A gay guy at a Bizkit show would be drowned in the porta-potties cuz we believe in Manhood.

Well, I gotta get going. Tomorrow, I'll discuss the brilliant sophmore track on the album "My Generation."