Korn's debut album dropped in the summer of 1994, and like anything that changes the face of its field, it was received negatively by some. Among those early detractors is Kevin Nash, the two-time WWE Hall of Famer and nWo co-founder, as he recently recounted on his Kliq This! podcast.
When co-host Sean Oliver and Nash were debating a recent list put out by Rolling Stone ranking the greatest bands of all time, the subject of the mid-Nineties alternative music movement came up. Nash then offered (transcribed by theprp.com):
“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 what 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.'”
Step aside, Jey Uso, Big Daddy Cool was yeeting long before it was needing to be run back.
He does concede that he eventually became a fan, admitting:
“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.'”
While Nash is no stranger to shoots in wrestling, it was his Kliq-mates who were generally better with ladders.
Check out the full podcast episode of Kliq This! below. The conversation about Korn begins around the 24 minute mark:
