Actor and musician Corey Feldman turned up as the featured guest on a new episode of Jamie Kennedy‘s “Hate To Break It To Ya” podcast, released June 26, and used part of the conversation to tease an upcoming collaboration with Limp Bizkit‘s Fred Durst. The two have history together — Durst brought Feldman along on a recent Limp Bizkit tour and directed his music video for “The Joke” — but it was Feldman‘s explanation of how the new track came together that took an odd turn.
The song, titled “Paranoia [I’m Not Trippin]“, was originally meant to feature a different vocalist. Feldman said his first pick for the guest spot was Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton, before he decided against reaching out — a decision he tied to vague concerns about Patton supposedly being involved in “cult” activity.
Walking through the song’s origins, Feldman said (as transcribed by theprp):
“Fred [Durst] and I have a new song… I put out a teaser for it. It’s sick. I’ll play it for you in the ca,r if you want. It’s really sick, dude. It’s really good. I got like this monster rock band. We have like a supergroup of like monster rockers and they’re all on, you know, they’re all playing. And I got like Robin Diaz from from Puddle Of Mudd and like actually one of Manson‘s guys, a lap pedal player, or pedal steel, sorry, player, who’s doing some stuff on it. It was just this really eclectic group… But yeah, really cool. Really bada** song that I did. And I just kind of sat in on it. It was a bunch of guys that were working on a jam and they were like, ‘We need a melody.’ So I just sat down and I wrote a melody really fast. And then I was like, ‘But I hear it as like a rock-rap song, so it needs a really good rapper.’ And they were like, ‘Well, who do you think?’ And I was l going through the names and I actually thought of Mike Patton. He was the one that I wanted first, and I’m a fan of his work, but he’s a little bit tied to, you know, those things that I…”
When Kennedy cut in to ask who Patton is and whether there was any “smoke” around him, Feldman answered:
“Not smoke. Just the the stuff you’re talking about, the cult stuff. Yeah. So, it looked a little dark. So, I was like, I don’t think that’s the best marriage. But I like his work, but just not his message, maybe. So, anyway, so I thought, well, that might be a little dark. So, then I was like, ‘Who’s a great rapper that’s not going to go dark on me? Oh, I know, Fred!’ So, I called Fred and I said, ‘I got this new jam. What do you think?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t know. Let’s uh let’s hear it.’ So, I sent it to him. He’s like, ‘Dude, that’s bada**.’ I was like, ‘All right, you want to do it?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ I was like, ‘All right.’”
Feldman offered no evidence for the “cult” characterization and never spelled out what he actually meant by it, and Mike Patton has not responded to the remarks. The comments arrived after a stretch of the episode in which Feldman and Kennedy drifted into conspiracy theories about alleged satanic activity in Hollywood, including a claim from Feldman that he’d heard some figures there worship an ancient deity — talk that shaded the wider discussion but proves nothing about Patton specifically. It’s also notable that Feldman himself has faced cult-like allegations in the past.
For now, the takeaway that stands up is the simpler one: Patton was Feldman‘s first choice for “Paranoia [I’m Not Trippin]“, Feldman talked himself out of asking, and Fred Durst ended up on the track instead.
