“Alright, partner. Keep on rollin’, baby! You know what time it is!”
Those iconic lyrics are the opening lines to Limp Bizkit’s top hit, “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle),” which recently hit one billion streams on Spotify. The tune was the second single released from their 2000 album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
“Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” marks their second song to achieve this amazing feat. It was added to Spotify’s “BILLIONS CLUB” playlist on Monday, along with “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down, “Chanel” by Frank Ocean, “Imitadora” by Romeo Santos, “Yo Voy (feat. Daddy Yankee) by Zion & Lennox, “Ella y Yo (feat. Don Omar)” by Aventura, and “Renegades” by X Ambassadors. The playlist has over 1300 songs and is frequently updated whenever a tune officially crosses one billion streams and is processed by Spotify’s editorial team.
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There are two versions of the track: hip-hop and hard rock
“Rollin'” was originally produced by Swizz Beatz. Titled “Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle),” the original is sometimes referred to by fans as the hip-hop remix of “Air Raid Vehicle” and appears on The Fast and the Furious soundtrack.
There was some frustration when the band was presented with the hip-hop version, and Limp Bizkit felt it might work as a rock song, which led to the creation of the “Air Raid Vehicle” version.
“We liked both versions so much that that’s what it ended up being two versions — a hip-hop version of the song and a rock version of the song,” guitarist Wes Borland told Songfacts.
American rapper and singer Fred Durst in 2000 in Hollywood, California.Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images
‘Air Raid Vehicle’ music video was filmed at an iconic New York City landmark
The “Air Raid Vehicle” version of the song had a music video which included many stars such as Ben Stiller, Stephen Dorff and Mr Wiggles. Some scenes were filmed in front of the Roxy Hotel in Lower Manhattan, and parts of the music video were shot on the rooftop of the South Tower of the original World Trade Center, in July 2000.
The music video of “Rollin'” won Best Rock Video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. To congratulate the band, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sent a card and fruit basket to Limp Bizkit, thanking them for featuring the Twin Towers in their music video on Sept. 10, 2001, a day before the 9/11 attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center. After the attacks, the video was taken off the air, but it can still be watched on YouTube.
The impact of ‘Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)’ and Limp Bizkit
Since its release in September 2000, “Rollin'” was featured on a variety of listicles. Some media sites slightly poked fun at the song, as VH1 did by including it on their “50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs” list in 2004, while others such as Louder Sound and Kerrang ranked “Rollin” as one of the top 10 songs Limp Bizkit ever created.
As for the charts, the song peaked at No. 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for 17 weeks. Limp Bizkit got most of their streams via radio play, and it reached No. 60 on the Radio Component Chart. Internationally, “Rollin'” topped the charts in Ireland and the United Kingdom and peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Sweden.
Sam Rivers, DJ Lethal, John Otto, Wes Borland and Fred Durst at the Grammy Awards, Los Angeles, California, February 23rd 2000.Vinnie Zuffante/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Formed in 1994 by Borland, Fred Durst, John Otto and Sam Rivers in Jacksonville, Florida, Limp Bizkit became one of the most successful nu metal bands of the 1990s and early 2000s. They released their debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Y’all, in 1997 via Flip Records, but their mainstream success came from Significant Other and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, their second and third albums released in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Limp Bizkit has won several awards, including Best Hard Rock Performance twice and Best Rock Album at the Grammy Awards. However, their success plummeted by 2001 when Borland briefly left the group and a series of controversies surrounded their performances.
After breaking up in 2006, Limp Bizkit reunited again in 2009 and has since released two more studio albums: Gold Cobra (2011) and Still Sucks (2021). As of now, Limp Bizkit is currently experiencing a major career resurgence, driven by social media and newer generations discovering them online. Nu Metal Show shared on Facebook on Friday that Borland confirmed with the publication that they are heading back into the studio.
“Speaking in a recent interview, Borland revealed that the band has accumulated a wealth of riffs and ideas from previous sessions and has scheduled dedicated writing time in August 2026 to develop fresh material,” Nu Metal Show teased. “New Limp Bizkit music is officially on the way.”
“Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” and all of Limp Bizkit’s discography can be listened to on all streaming platforms.
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