Article: MUSIC: DURST BAG; IS LIMP BIZKIT'S FRED DURST REALLY THE OSAMA BIN LADEN OF RAP METAL?(Features)

Byline: GAVIN MARTIN

As the frontman and mastermind of nu-metal overlords Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst has sold more than 20 million albums. He has been linked with a string of celebrity sex symbols, including Christina Aguilera, Carmen Electra and Britney Spears. He is a short (5ft 7ins), balding, 32-year-old multi-millionaire, who wears big shorts and back-to-front baseball caps. He is an over-age real-life version of cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead turned into global superstar.

But Fred, born Frederick Allen Mayne III in Jacksonville, Florida - and ...

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