It turns out WWE Hall Of Famer Kevin Nash wasn’t always a fan of Korn.
During a recent episode of the Kliq This podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer recalled the first time he listened to the nu-metal pioneers, admitting he disliked what he heard so much that he ejected the CD and threw it out of his car window after less than a minute.
While discussing his longtime habit of buying stacks of newly released CDs before heading out on the road, Nash explained that friends had been urging him to check out Korn. However, the band’s sound couldn’t have been further from what he was listening to at the time.
“You know, I was always, to this day, when music came out, I would go to either Best Buys or Circuit City, and I would just — because I was making coin — like 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.
“And I remember everybody was telling me about Korn. And I was driving, I was by myself, and I was in Lincoln Continental. And, you know, it was one of those deals where I was so into, like at that time of my life, I was so into like Tupac and that whole Death Row sound, that Korn was so far from my [tastes,] I listened to like 30 seconds of it, ejected it, put the window down and slung it out the window, like ‘No.'”
After being asked if he actually threw the CD out of the window, Nash confirmed that he did.
Fortunately, his opinion on Korn didn’t stay that way forever.
“And then two years later like, I actually on something, heard like two or three cuts, and I said, ‘Oh, I guess I should have gave it a chance.'”
Nash went on to say he has always had a wide range of musical interests, from R&B and soul to hip-hop and rock. More recently, he’s been spending time listening to SiriusXM’s Lithium station, where he also praised the late Chris Cornell, saying that if he could have anyone’s singing voice, it would be Cornell’s.
Although Korn didn’t win Nash over on the first listen, it seems the band ultimately earned a spot in his music rotation after he gave them a second chance.
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