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Limp Bizkit and Lil Wayne's New Video "Ready To Go" Raises Some Important Questions

Like, how did they make a song this good? When did they invent disappearing tights? And, who is better, Limp Bizkit, Alien Ant Farm or Michael Jackson?
Ryan Bassil
London, GB

Thirteen years ago, when Limp Bizkit put out “Rollin’”, they were probably the biggest band in the world. They fitted perfectly, slotting between WWE Smackdown Hell In A Cell matches and oversized denim jeans, taking a sledgehammer to the bridge between KoЯn and hip-hop and placing themselves solely inside.

But, as someone really influential once said, “The Times They Are a-Changin’”. With Game of Thrones the most popular show on television, tight, the most popular attire of teens, and gone, the brashness of a punch to the face wake-up of early nu-metal on daytime radio, it seems almost impossible that Limp Bizkit still exist. But, word to your mother, they do, and they’re fucking great.

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Yesterday, the band put out a new track, with Lil’ Wayne, called “Ready To Go”. After I’d got over having my eardrums punctuated with something I didn’t think existed any more, I had several questions. Like…

Why is “Rollin’” not on their setlist?

Is Fred Durst channeling the look of every old guy who has ever worked at a local tattoo parlour ever?

Who is better? Limp Bizkit, Alien Ant Farm or Michael Jackson? And, how the fuck?

Shouldn’t someone be helping this guy paint himself?

You’d think Weezy (don’t forget the F around me) could have employed a make-up artist.

Or at least someone to tell the band that water will wash half your make-up off. And, apparently rip your trousers in half, too.

What is this girl doing?

What is this guy doing?

And why is it called flirting?

Does Fred Durst shit with the door open? Or does Fred Durst shit with the door open?

Answer: Fred Durst does not give a fuck.

Are heavy duty gloves the new red fiddy cap? Or did Fred Durst ride a Ducati on stage?

And why is this guy wearing armbands to jump on to a slip’n’slide?

Along the way they meet a girl…

Who leaves her child to strip off into a bikini in the middle of the street.

P.S Since when did they invent tights that disappear at will?

And how come this only ever happens in rap videos and never in real life?

What is the correlation between a blow-up swan, a blow-up giraffe and a scantily clad female?

Seriously, what happened to this woman’s child?

These guys also turn up. I’m not sure who they are. Maybe you know. But I do know that they’re not happy with Fred and Co’s use of a G-Pen, teasing them with a real life cancer stick.

They bring Lil Wayne with them, who remembered how to sound as good as he did five years ago, but forgot to take the tag off his hat.

Is it still acceptable for your go-to-move to be the thrust when you’re 42?

And did anyone give this guy an award for most inventive band merchandise?

And when is the next Limp Bizkit show and can someone take me?

For real, though. This song is great.

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