All in the Family (song)
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"All in the Family" is a song written and recorded by American rock 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 first actual 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.

Concept

"Fred was there after Korn TV and we said, 'Let's do a song together, Hey, man, let's go back and forth and rip on each other like an old school battle.' I don't know whose idea it was, I can't remember if it was mine or Fieldy's or Fred's but we came up with the idea and we started writing and we worked on it together. I came up with some bags on myself for Fred to say. It was all in good natured fun." – Jonathan Davis

Media Response

From Rolling Stone's review of the album:

It's too bad that Korn can go so easily from the potent to the pointless. The very next track, "All in the Family," is an MC duel between Davis and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, a stomping hip-hop track with a good-natured barrage of insults – except for the "faggot" and "fairy" cracks and lame-o lines like "Suck my dick, kid, like your daddy did" and "You're a fag and on a lower level." To Davis and Durst, that may just be harmless schoolyard jivin'. But Davis knows words can hurt – that was the whole point of "Faget," on Korn – and the homosexual slams in "All in the Family" cheapen, at least for those five minutes, the power and integrity of an album otherwise devoted to kickin' it against cruelty and prejudice.^[1]

Track listing

• CD5" ESK 41269

1. "All in the Family" (rough mix) – 4:51
2. "All in the Family" (Clark World mix) – 4:45
3. "All in the Family" (Sowing the Beats mix) – 4:51
4. "All in the Family" (Beats in Peace mix) – 4:15
5. "All in the Family" (Scary Bird mix) – 8:40

References

1. ^ David Fricke "Album Review". Rolling Stone, Aug 12, 1998

External links

• Lyrics