Kevin Nash gave Korn about 30 seconds before deciding he had heard enough — and then he sent the CD flying out of his Lincoln Continental.
During the latest episode of Kliq This, Nash talked about how much music was part of his road life back in the day. He said whenever new CDs dropped, he would hit stores like Best Buy or Circuit City and load up before heading out. Nash explained that he was buying stacks of albums at the time because he was constantly traveling, but Korn did not exactly win him over on the first listen.
“Back when music came out, I would go to either Best Buy or Circuit City. Because I was making coin, when the new CDs dropped, I’d buy 12 or 14 CDs. I’d buy whatever was out because I was going on the road.”
That’s when Nash said people kept pushing Korn on him, but his head was somewhere totally different musically. At the time, he was deep into Tupac and the Death Row Records sound, so Korn’s style hit him the wrong way immediately.
“I just remember everybody was telling me about Korn, and I was driving. I was by myself and I was in a Lincoln Continental. It was one of those deals where I was so into, at that time of my life, I was so into Tupac and that whole Death Row sound that Korn was so far from my… I listened to like 30 seconds of it, ejected it, put the window down and slung it out the window. Like, no.”
Sean Oliver then asked Nash if he really got rid of the CD right there, and Nash didn’t back off the story.
“Threw the f**ing thing… never…”*
Nash did admit Korn eventually got a second chance. A couple of years later, he heard a few songs and realized he may have pulled the trigger too fast on tossing the disc.
“And then two years later I actually heard two or three cuts and I said, ‘Oh, I guess I should have gave it a chance.’”
Nash also said his music habits still jump all over the place. He can go from R&B to classic soul to classic vinyl, and lately he has been listening to Lithium, SiriusXM’s ’90s alternative channel.
“I’ll start off, one week I might just be in an R&B groove and I’ll burn it out. Then I’ll go to classic soul. Then I go to classic vinyl. Right now I’m on Lithium, that’s like all the ’90s stuff.”
Korn went on to become one of the biggest bands of their era, but they clearly didn’t connect with Kevin Nash on that first spin. At least Big Sexy can laugh about it now, even if that poor CD never got the chance to make it past the opening stretch.
What do you think about Kevin Nash throwing Korn out the window after only 30 seconds? Was he dead wrong, or have you ever hated an album that fast? Sound off in the comments and let us know.
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