Rage Against the Machine’s bassist Tim Commerford has took it upon himself to issue an apology. A deeply personal one that can only have been delivered after hours of soul-searching and personal torment.
“I do apologise for Limp Bizkit,” Commerford said, in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. “I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such [expletive].”
Impressively, this wasn’t the most offensive thing Commerford had to say about the nu-metal band. He followed it up by displaying a complete lack of awareness that Fred Durst’s rap-rockers were still a going concern.
“They’re gone, though,” he added. “That’s the beautiful thing. There’s only one left, and that’s Rage, and as far as I’m concerned, we’re the only one that matters.”
The news that RATM are deeply ashamed of their influence on pop culture will be hard to take for Limp Bizkit and their fans. The group are known for covering RATM’s 1992 song Killing in the Name and during a 2014 performance in New York, Durst dedicated it to the “rap-rock band that started this [expletive].”
He later claimed the song changed his life, pointing to his heart and saying: “When I first heard this song, that [expletive] hit me right the [expletive] here.”
Commerford does have form when it comes to Bizkit bashing. Back in 2000 he gatecrashed a Limp Bizkit acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs, scaling the backdrop until security were forced to bring him down. The bassist spent a night in jail after being arrested for disorderly conduct, but now claims he should have gone further.
“I wish I would’ve swung on that thing and brought it to the ground and just destroyed it,” he said. “If I could do it all over again, I would’ve ripped that thing to the ground and shredded it.”
