Editing Limp Bizkit (section)

== Legacy and influence ==
Limp Bizkit is considered one of the defining bands of the nu metal genre.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.masterclass.com/articles/nu-metal-guide |title=nu metal guide |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205221513/https://www.masterclass.com/articles/nu-metal-guide |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="AP"/> [[Alternative Press (magazine)|''Alternative Press'']] said: "As the years have gone by, some nü-metal outfits have progressively downplayed their bracket's hip-hop sensibilities. Even so, you can guarantee one of their primary influences were Limp Bizkit... the happily mismatched band from Jacksonville, Florida, established the ground rules of nü metal.. blur(ring) the lines between the two most polarizing genres in music... Limp Bizkit created timeless odes to teenage angst that, in time, we've discovered still apply right into adulthood."<ref name="AP">{{Cite web|last=Cooper|first=Ali|date=2021-07-21|title=20 artists who defined the sound of nü metal from past to present|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/bands-who-influenced-nu-metal/|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Alternative Press|language=en-US|archive-date=April 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414232934/https://www.altpress.com/features/bands-who-influenced-nu-metal/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[Kerrang!]]'' magazine talked about the impact of the band's song "Break Stuff": "If [[Deftones]] represented something deeper about nu-metal, Limp Bizkit represented something entirely at the other end of the scale. Despite having a genuinely innovative guitarist in Wes Borland, whose vision for his genre-straddling band was probably more in line with bands like [[Primus (band)|Primus]], [[Faith No More]] and [[Mr. Bungle]]... Break Stuff, ahem, broke Limp Bizkit through its fiendishly simple two-chord motif, kick-up-the-arse drop, and its glued-to-MTV video featuring [[Jonathan Davis]], [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], as well as rap megastars [[Snoop Dogg]], [[Eminem]] and [[Dr. Dre]], taking them to an audience far beyond metal. The celebrity that followed was huge. The influence it left was huger."<ref>{{Cite web|title=The story of nu-metal in 14 songs|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-story-of-nu-metal-in-14-songs/|access-date=2021-09-22|website=Kerrang!|date=August 5, 2021|archive-date=November 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124231213/https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-story-of-nu-metal-in-14-songs/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Although Limp Bizkit inspired nu metal bands like [[Linkin Park]] in the 2000s,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gaca |first=Anna |date=2017-07-25 |title=Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst on Chester Bennington: 'He Had a Way of Making Anyone He Spoke to Feel Heard' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/limp-bizkit-fred-durst-chester-bennington-interview-7880909/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305083649/https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/limp-bizkit-fred-durst-chester-bennington-interview-7880909/ |url-status=live }}</ref> new bands in the genre continue to use Bizkit's sound as an influence, such as acclaimed nu metal revival band [[Wargasm (band)|Wargasm]], whose members grew up listening to Limp Bizkit and have said that they "wouldn't be the band we are today without them".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-15 |title=Wargasm Look Back on Wild, Inspirational Limp Bizkit Tour |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/wargasm-look-back-wild-inspirational-limp-bizkit-tour |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Revolver |language=en |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619002921/https://www.revolvermag.com/music/wargasm-look-back-wild-inspirational-limp-bizkit-tour |url-status=live }}</ref> Other bands that have cited Limp Bizkit as influence include [[Emmure]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=wookubus |date=2013-08-01 |title=Emmure's Frankie Palmeri Shares His Thoughts On Emmure/Limp Bizkit Comparisons |url=https://www.theprp.com/2013/08/01/news/emmures-frankie-palmeri-shares-his-thoughts-on-emmurelimp-bizkit-comparisons/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=Theprp.com |language=en-US |archive-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020011420/https://www.theprp.com/2013/08/01/news/emmures-frankie-palmeri-shares-his-thoughts-on-emmurelimp-bizkit-comparisons/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Attila (metalcore band)|Attila]],{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} [[Hacktivist (band)|Hacktivist]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=2011-10-17 |title=DJENT-RAPPERS HACKTIVIST KIND ENOUGH TO PUT THE WORD "HACK" RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2011/10/17/djent-rappers-hacktivist-kind-enough-to-put-the-word-hack-right-there-in-the-name/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=MetalSucks |language=en |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106092639/https://www.metalsucks.net/2011/10/17/djent-rappers-hacktivist-kind-enough-to-put-the-word-hack-right-there-in-the-name/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Lionheart (American band)|Lionheart]],<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYeKqew33uU |title=Rob Watson {{!}} LIONHEART: Limp Bizkit, Hardcore & Working w/ Ice-T {{!}} Garza Podcast 65 |date=2023-02-13 |last=Garza Podcast |access-date=2024-05-23 |via=YouTube |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523054447/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYeKqew33uU |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Rise of the Northstar]],{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} [[Islander (band)|Islander]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |date=2016-06-17 |title=How Korn, Bad Brains, A7X Helped Islander Find New 'Power' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-members-of-korn-bad-brains-a7x-helped-islander-find-new-power-37701/ |access-date=2023-10-14 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020011420/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-members-of-korn-bad-brains-a7x-helped-islander-find-new-power-37701/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jesusfreakhideout.com: Islander, "Violence & Destruction" Review |url=https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/ViolenceandDestruction.asp |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=www.jesusfreakhideout.com |archive-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020011421/https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/ViolenceandDestruction.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Of Mice & Men (band)|Of Mice & Men]],{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} [[Vision Eternel]],<ref name="ItsPsychedelicBabyMagazineInterview">{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |author-link=Klemen Breznikar |date=December 24, 2020 |title=Vision Eternel Interview |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/12/vision-eternel-interview.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224130050/https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/12/vision-eternel-interview.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=July 12, 2023 |website=[[It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="CapturedHowlsInterview">{{Cite web |last=Newton |first=Caleb R. |date=September 28, 2020 |title=Alexander Julien of Vision Eternel Explains His New Album of Illustrious 'Melogaze' |url=https://capturedhowls.com/2020/09/28/alexander-julien-of-vision-eternel-explains-his-new-album-of-illustrious-melogaze |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929033448/https://capturedhowls.com/2020/09/28/alexander-julien-of-vision-eternel-explains-his-new-album-of-illustrious-melogaze |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |access-date=July 13, 2023 |website=Captured Howls |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Zeal & Ardor]].<ref name="Gigwise">{{cite web|url=https://www.gigwise.com/features/3254601/zeal-and-ardor-interviewed-manuel-gagneux|title=Rip up the metal rulebooks: Zeal & Ardor Interviewed - Gigwise|website=www.gigwise.com|access-date=11 June 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142709/https://www.gigwise.com/features/3254601/zeal-and-ardor-interviewed-manuel-gagneux|archive-date=12 June 2018}}</ref>

[[Richard Cheese]] performed a [[Lounge music|lounge]] rendition of the songs "Nookie" and "Break Stuff" on his debut album, ''[[Lounge Against the Machine]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Henderson |first=Alex |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lounge-against-the-machine-r501485/review |title=''Lounge Against the Machine'' – Richard Cheese |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=December 20, 2011}}</ref> The [[Vitamin String Quartet]] recorded a [[tribute album]] called ''The String Quartet Tribute to Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff'', which contains reinterpretations of the band's songs performed by a violinist backed by cellos, synthesizers, and keyboard percussion.<ref>{{cite web |last=Loftus |first=Johnny |url=https://allmusic.com/album/the-string-quartet-tribute-to-limp-bizkit-break-stuff-w115684/review |title=The String Quartet Tribute to Limp Bizkit: Break Stuff |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=December 20, 2011}}</ref> [[The Blackout (band)|The Blackout]] covered "[[My Generation (Limp Bizkit song)|My Generation]]" for the compilation ''Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2007/06/get_ready_for_higher_voltage.html |title=Get ready for 'Higher Voltage'! |date=June 20, 2007 |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |access-date=March 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314031846/http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2007/06/get_ready_for_higher_voltage.html |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Limp Bizkit also had a major impact on the [[professional wrestling]] world. They famously provided the track "My Way" for the music video for the [[WrestleMania 17]] clash between Steve Austin and The Rock.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Andy |title=WWF WrestleMania X-Seven {{!}} Match Card & Results {{!}} WWE PPV |url=https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/events-results/ppv-special/wwf-wrestlemania-x-seven |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=The SmackDown Hotel |language=en-gb}}</ref> Fred Durst is also featured in the SmackDown! Just Bring It video game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SimoneSDH |title=Fred Durst {{!}} WWE SmackDown! Just Bring It Roster |url=https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/sd-jbi/roster/fred-durst |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=The SmackDown Hotel |language=en-gb}}</ref> They performed their buzz single "Crack Addict" and also during WWE Legend, The Undertaker's entrance at [[Wrestlemania 19]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sonny Kiss Keeps On Rollin', Performs On Stage With Limp Bizkit {{!}} Fightful News |url=https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/sonny-kiss-keeps-rollin-performs-stage-limp-bizkit |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=www.fightful.com |language=en}}</ref> They are the favorite band of several wrestlers including former WWE Diva's Champion and fellow Jacksonville native [[Kelly Kelly]] and former [[AEW]] athlete [[Sonny Kiss]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8FUR3pEL38 |title=Ask the Divas: Mixed Tag Partner |date=2010-05-05 |last=WWE |access-date=2025-03-20 |via=YouTube}} </ref><ref> {{Cite web |title=Sonny Kiss Keeps On Rollin', Performs On Stage With Limp Bizkit {{!}} Fightful News |url=https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/sonny-kiss-keeps-rollin-performs-stage-limp-bizkit |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=www.fightful.com |language=en}}</ref>

The band was negatively perceived in the early 21st century. In 2003, ''[[Guitar World]]'' readers voted Limp Bizkit the "worst band of the year".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003-12-31 |title=Limp Bizkit dubbed worst band of year |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/limp-bizkit-dubbed-worst-band-year-wbna3849314 |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}</ref> A 2013 ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' readers' poll voted Limp Bizkit as the third-worst band of the 1990s, behind [[Creed (band)|Creed]] and [[Nickelback]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2013-05-09 |title=Readers' Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-ten-worst-bands-of-the-nineties-13654/8-spin-doctors-241166/ |access-date=2024-10-22 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> The band was insulted by fellow musicians including [[Deftones]]' [[Chino Moreno]] and [[Slayer]]'s [[Kerry King]], with King admitting that Limp Bizkit's popularity made him consider quitting music.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=2003-05-29 |title=DEFTONES Singer Slams LINKIN PARK, LIMP BIZKIT, METALLICA And KORN |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/deftones-singer-slams-linkin-park-limp-bizkit-metallica-and-korn |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hobson |first=Rich |date=2023-01-13 |title=Kerry King once hated Limp Bizkit so much he considered quitting music: "I thought, 'If this is the way that music's going, then f**k this, I hate it'" |url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/kerry-king-once-hated-limp-bizkit-so-much-he-considered-quitting-music-i-thought-if-this-is-the-way-that-musics-going-then-fk-this-i-hate-it |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=louder |language=en}}</ref> [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']] noted how "liking Limp Bizkit can seem like an ethical failure: Durst's lyrics frequently affirm a noxious value system in which a seething hatred of [[The Man]] coexists with a seething [[Misogyny|hatred of women]]."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weiner |first=Jonah |date=2009-04-14 |title=Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad? |url=https://slate.com/culture/2009/04/limp-bizkit-deserves-another-listen-seriously.html |access-date=2024-10-22 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]'' stated that "Limp Bizkit was often... used as a similar shorthand for the misery bad rock music has apparently wrought upon the world."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-16 |title=Keep rollin' rollin': Are Limp Bizkit still the ultimate cultural punchline? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/limp-bizkit-fred-durst-backlash-chocolate-starfish-lyrics-fans-woodstock-b1073954.html |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> Following the band's set at [[Lollapalooza]] 2021, which was broadcast on [[Hulu]], and the release of the song "Dad Vibes", the band began having a shift in public opinion, garnering positive responses from critics and audiences.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/culture/events/limp-bizkit-lollapalooza-recap-fred-durst-best-moments-9608812/ |title=Lolapalooza |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619060839/https://www.billboard.com/culture/events/limp-bizkit-lollapalooza-recap-fred-durst-best-moments-9608812/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://junkee.com/resurgence-limp-bizkit-2021/308406|title=Inside Limp Bizkit's Unexpected And Unlikely Resurgence|date=September 13, 2021|website=Junkee|access-date=June 19, 2022|archive-date=June 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619060840/https://junkee.com/resurgence-limp-bizkit-2021/308406|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/limp-bizkit-see-huge-stream-sales-spike-after-lollapalooza-set-3013329 |title=huge spike |website=[[NME]] |date=August 6, 2021 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220619060839/https://www.nme.com/news/music/limp-bizkit-see-huge-stream-sales-spike-after-lollapalooza-set-3013329 |url-status=live }}</ref> The band's comeback album ''[[Still Sucks]]'' helped with the shifting opinion, with the album receiving mostly positive reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://loudwire.com/best-rock-metal-albums-2021/ |title=best albums 2021 |website=[[Loudwire]] |date=December 10, 2021 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211210173513/https://loudwire.com/best-rock-metal-albums-2021/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/top-10-alt-metal-albums-of-2021 |title=top 10 altmetal |date=December 17, 2021 |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222052627/https://www.loudersound.com/features/top-10-alt-metal-albums-of-2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Limp Bizkit was mentioned in a scene between [[Jim Carrey]]'s [[Dr. Robotnik]] and [[Idris Elba]]'s [[Knuckles the Echidna|Knuckles]] in the film ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (film)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' (2022), where Robotnik compares Knuckles to being as useless as a "Limp Bizkit backstage pass".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/movies/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-review.html|title='Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Review: Keep Up! Bada-Brrring!|website=[[New York Times]]|last=Nicholson|first=Amy|date=April 7, 2022|access-date=April 7, 2022|archive-date=April 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412155338/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/movies/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegamer.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-review/|title=Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Review: Gotta Go Fast (Again)|publisher=The Gamer|last=King|first=Jade|date=March 28, 2022|access-date=April 7, 2022|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718012441/https://www.thegamer.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-review/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Limp Bizkit appears in ''[[Generation Kill]]'' (2004), originally conceived by journalist Evan Wright as a three-part ''Rolling Stone'' magazine series, before being released as a full-length book and becoming a 2008 HBO mini-series under the same name. ''Generation Kill'' chronicles Wright's experience as a reporter traveling with a platoon of U.S. [[United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance|Recon Marines]] during the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. While driving along a winding canal en route to [[Baghdad]], a Ripped, Fuel-ed Corporal from Missouri named Josh Ray Person (played by actor [[James Ransone]]) memorably "recounts the band he formed after high school, Me or Society. A heavy-metal rap group, his band once opened for Limp Bizkit at a show in Kansas City. 'We sucked, but so did they,' Person says. 'The only difference is, they became famous right after we played together. I became a Marine.<ref>Generation Kill, p.&nbsp;71.</ref>