Limp Bizkit Bizarre Connection to 9/11 - 'Rollin' & MTV VMA'S

Limp Bizkit's creepy connection with 9/11 and the World Trade Center

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Limp Bizkit were one of the biggest rock bands in 2001. They were all over rock radio and MTV and toured extensively. Limp Bizkit would have the distinct honor of being the last band to shoot on the World Trade Center prior to the attacks on 9/11. That’s what we’re going to discuss in today’s video.

Limp Bizkit’s third album, 2000’sChocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water would be the biggest album of the band’s career moving over 8 million copies in America. One of the single’s released from the record would be the song Rollin. . Whenever it hink of Rollin’ NHL Hitz 2002 always comes to my mind. But for the video for Rollin’ Limp Bizkit would shoot part of the video on the the top of the South Tower of the old World Trade Center in New York City. The shoot would happen in September of 2000, nearly a year before the 9/11 attacks. Here’s Wes Borland and Fred Durst talking to New Musical Express discussing the thinking behind the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ocN4EfEVU (0:20 - 1:16)

The music video would win the award for best rock video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards which took place on September 6, 2001. Durst would reveal in an interview that the band received a letter from the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001 congratulating the group on winning the VMA and for thanking the band for featuring the towers in the video. Durst would tell MTV years later I had it framed. I found it very ironic, very bizarre that I received that letter on Monday, and Tuesday the [attacks occurred]. For me to have gotten to go to the top of such a great, powerful structure ... to have those people embrace me and let Limp Bizkit spend 22 hours on top of the World Trade Center doing what we do. ... And for it to be taken down? The structure itself means nothing to me. I don't believe in that structure being a symbol of power, of pride, of America. What means something to me is the people that were killed around and in that building innocently, for no reason except hatred. It overwhelms me. I thank God the night we were on the World Trade Center wasn't the night they decided to do that. [RealVideo]

In 2014 guitarist Wes Borland would end up discussing the filming of the song’s video with FHM revealing “Boy, did the video for Rollin’ backfire. It was filmed on top of the World Trade Center. On 6 September 2001 we won an MTV Video Award [‘Best Rock Video’] for it and the staff at WTC sent over a fruit basket to congratulate us. After 9/11 everyone stopped playing it. Nobody wanted to see it. Neither did we.” While the infamous clear channel memorandum flagged the limp bizkit song Break Stuff on radio it seemed like the ban was likely limited to mtv.” that does it for today’s video guys thanks for watching. Limp Bizkit wasn’t