Limp Bizkit And Staind Are Having An Incredibly Stupid Fight Involving An Airport Golf Buggy
"I wish nothing but the worst for him."
Heavy music fans, we’re pleased to report that the first utterly ridiculous beef of 2018 is now underway. Hooray!
This one comes courtesy of Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, who’s currently embroiled in a mud-slinging match with his nu-metal counterpart Aaron Lewis, the frontman of Staind (you know, they had that one song).
The two bands used to be quite tight: Limp Bizkit first signed Staind to their label Flip Records back in the ’90s, and they toured together as part of Korn’s legendary ‘Family Values‘ tour in 1998. But they haven’t had much to do with each other recently, and that’s probably because they now flat out hate each other.
This beef was actually sparked late last year, when Borland labelled Lewis a “dickhead” in an interview while recounting a story of them bumping into each other at LA airport. Lewis apparently approached Borland while he was waiting to catch a flight back to LA, but what started as a pleasant exchange turned into a bizarre argument when Lewis snapped at Borland for calling LA, rather than his native Florida, “home”. Yes, it’s that petty.
“That guy is such a dickhead,” Borland told the Talk Toomey podcast. “So full of himself, such a dickhead. I wish nothing but the worst for him. Amen. I could not believe the audacity and just, like, pretentiousness… Anyway, disgusting person. I don’t wanna be a shit talker, but I have no problem talking shit about that guy. He’s terrible.”
Now, after a few months of stony silence, Lewis has hit back at Borland and attempted to set the record straight.
“Wes Borland, who I love dearly, obviously has some fucking things to say about me,” Lewis said on stage in Las Vegas two nights ago. “Fuck that motherfucker! This is what actually happened, OK? I saw this motherfucking bougie motherfucker riding on a fucking golf cart in the airport to his gate.
“I went up to him. I said, ‘Wes, what’s up, brother? I miss you. I haven’t seen you in forever. How have you been? Good?’ This, that and the other thing. I’m, like, ‘Where are you headed?’ He’s like, ‘I’m headed home — to Los Angeles.’ And I’m like, ‘Hey, motherfucker, that ain’t home. Remember, you’re from Jacksonville, fucking Florida.’ That’s how it went down.”
Really, the only thing that differs between the two accounts is that Borland is riding in a golf cart in Lewis’ version. Regardless, it didn’t take long for Borland to snap back on Instagram:
Not quite as good as last year’s Marilyn Manson v Justin Bieber blow-up, but we’ll take it.