OVER ONE MILLION LIMP BIZKIT
FANS CAN'T BE WRONG
Well, those folks are choking on Flip/Interscope's Limp Bizkit this week, as Fred and his posse say they're #1 with extended middle fingers and sales just south of 1.1 million copies.
"Fred Durst pays my rent. I love him," said Wherehouse's Bob Bell, who also loves his pet gerbil and a Great Dane named "Pookie"—but that's a whole other story best left for a Larry Flynt publication.
"Anyone who doubted the strength of the whole rap-rock thing has been proved wrong," said retail Einstein Bell, missing the point that the genre was not being questioned, its current standard-bearer was.
"Limp Bizkit has an incredibly strong fan base, and they all came out on the street date," said Bell, who also pulled his own limp biscuit out on the street date—but that's another story best left for HITS' Editor-In-Chief Lenny Beer's weekly Cub Scout sleepover.
Incidentally, there was also a whole bunch of controversy regarding Best Buy selling the album at $9.99, but we covered that extensively last week, and quite frankly, it does not negate the fact that the album is a FUCKING SMASH!!! Thank you. We needed that.
There were actually other debuts this week as well, like Def Jam/IDJ's Ludacris at #4, Tommy Boy's Everlast at #14 and Rawkus' Talib Kweli & HITEK at #20. Oh, yeah, Limp Bizkit's last album re-debuted in the Top 50 at #35, while last week's #1, Ja Rule, took the #2 slot in a strong showing.
If that ain't enough, kiddies, there are BIG titles hitting the street next week, including Jay-Z, Outkast, U2, Godsmack and a couple from Insane Clown Posse.
"Insane Clown Posse pays my rent. I love them," said Bell, making like a contortionist as he frantically searched for his lost gerbil in his "Chocolate Starfish."
