All in the Family (song)
"All in the Family" is a song written and recorded by American nu metal band Korn and Limp Bizkit vocalist Fred Durst for Korn's third studio album, "Follow the Leader". The demo version was released as a "radio teaser" shortly before the release of the album's second single, "Got the Life". Music and structure. The song is a rhyme duel between Jonathan Davis and Fred Durst, mixing elements of hip-hop beats, distorted 7-string guitars, and Fieldy's signature bass sound. The song begins with Jonathan and Fred insulting each other on  hygiene, sexual orientation, family roots, and other things. At the ending, both say they will perform sexual acts on each other in an ironic way, in fact giving the song a confusing twist. There are lyrical references to each other's songs, including Limp Bizkit's "Counterfeit" and Korn's "Blind", "Shoots and Ladders", and "No Place To Hide". Parts of the riff from "Blind" can also be heard during Jon's insults. Musical acts Vanilla Ice, Hanson, and Winger are also tossed around as insults along with references to the 1993 Waco siege, Buffalo Bill, Jerry Springer, Austin Powers , Raggedy Ann, Zingers, Fruity Pebbles, Funkdoobiest, the Confederate flag, and the opening lyrics to Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money Mo Problems". Concept. After the song's release, Davis said in an interview, "It's just me and him ragging on each other. Some kids think that Korn and Limp Bizkit hate each other. But hey, why we would be in the same room talking to each other if we hated each other? We have total respect..." Originally, the song was for B-Real of Cypress Hill, but his record label wouldn't let him do it. Davis and Durst would  often offer suggestions for each other's lyrics; a lyric written by Durst as "tootin' on your bagpipe" was changed to "fagpipes" by Davis, who stated "I helped him bag on me better". In 2015, Davis would refer to the song as "the dumbest fucking track Korn ever did", attributing the song to the excessive drugs and alcohol consumed during the album's production. Media response. In an otherwise positive review of the album, "Rolling Stone" wrote about the song: Similarly, Steve Appleford of the "Los Angeles Times" called the song "a duet of cheap insults with Bizkit's Fred  Durst that only diminishes one of Korn's strongest albums", and the "Winston-Salem Journal" wrote, "one wonders how [Davis] could stumble so badly with 'All in the Family' – a scatological song crammed with crude jive and anti-gay jibes that severely undercuts an otherwise potent disc." The "Austin American-Statesman"s critic wrote that the song's "pulsating rhythms... are undermined by countless references to guys' private parts, the f- word, 'faggots' and incest." Mike Boehm, commenting in the "Los Angeles Times", attempted to consider the band's motivations in writing the lyrics: About the homophobia accusations directed at the  song, Fred Durst said: "I called Jon [Davis of Korn] a fag, he called me a fag. We were just poking fun at each other. We didn’t mean it in any homophobic way". Track listing. Track 2 was remixed by DJ Clark Kent, tracks 3 and 4 were remixed by Level X, and track 5 was remixed by Scarecrow Adams. References. Other sources