Rollin' (Limp Bizkit song)

Writing and recording

"Rollin'" was created through a collaborative effort with hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz. Although sometimes referred to as a hip-hop remix, the "Urban Assault Vehicle" version of the song was actually the first version that was created. Fred Durst and Swizz Beatz worked together to create this version and when it was presented to the band there was some initial frustration. The band felt the song might work better as a rock song, which led to the creation of the "Air Raid Vehicle" version of the song. Wes Borland would later state "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."

Music video

The music video begins with Ben Stiller and Stephen Dorff pulling up in front of The Roxy Hotel in a Bentley Azure, listening to Limp Bizkit's My Generation, where Fred Durst is sitting on a public bench. Mistaking him for the parking valet, Stiller gives Durst the car keys. The video also features scenes of Fred Durst with five girls dancing in a room. The video was filmed around the same time as the film Zoolander, explaining Stiller's appearance (Durst has a small cameo in that film). Parts of the music video were filmed in September 2000 atop the South Tower of the original World Trade Center in New York City. The rest of the video has several cuts of Durst and the band hanging out of the Bentley as they drive around Manhattan; also making a cameo is break-dancer Mr. Wiggles.

The video received the award for Best Rock Video at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Incidentally, just one day before the September 11 attacks and collapse of the World Trade Center, on September 10, 2001, Limp Bizkit received a letter and a fruit basket from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, thanking them for featuring the Twin Towers in the video and congratulating the band after the video had won the VMA for Best Rock Video at the VMAs on September 6.

About the music video, Durst said: "It felt like we just started to poke fun at what people thought we were and embrace that. That's why we made the ''Rollin''' video. There were red caps everywhere, and look at Wes at the beginning of the video with his grills in. How the hell did people not realize we weren't being serious? We thought it was hilarious."

In 2018, the staff of Metal Hammer included the video in the site's list of "the 13 best nu metal videos".

Reception

The "Air Raid Vehicle" version was listed on VH1's list of the 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs. In 2022, Louder Sound and Kerrang ranked the song number eight and number nine on their lists of Limp Bizkit's greatest songs.

The song peaked at number 65 on the US Billboard Hot 100, giving the band their highest-charting single in the US, and remained on the chart for 17 weeks. Its run was entirely because of airplay, as it reached number 60 on the radio component chart while making no appearance on the Hot Single Sales 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.

Track listings

The song was released in three versions, each with a different cover color and track listing. There was also a DVD that was only released in the United Kingdom.

CD1

1. "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"
2. "I Would for You (Jane's Addiction cover) (Live)"
3. "Take a Look Around (Instrumental)"
4. "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" (music video)

CD2

1. "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"
2. "Show Me What You Got"
3. "Rollin' (Instrumental)"
4. Video Snippets

DVD

1. Video Snippets
2. "My Generation" – 0:30
3. "N 2 Gether Now" – 0:30
4. "Break Stuff" – 0:30
5. "Re-Arranged" – 0:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Release history

In popular culture

The song was parodied as "Posin'" on the television series MADtv.

Hall of Fame MLB player Scott Rolen used the song as his walk-up song before he batted.

"Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" was well known among WWE fans as the entrance theme for professional wrestler The Undertaker from December 2000 to May 2002, and again for WrestleMania XIX in 2003 where it was performed live.

The song was featured as a selectable track on the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida.

A short section of the song plays before the nighttime drag race in the first The Fast and the Furious film.

The song was also parodied in Annoying Orange as "Keep Trollin'".

The song was the goal song for the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL from 2005 to 2007. It is also the song in the intro video of NHL Hitz 20-02, and is heard in the menus and gameplay as well.

It was featured in *American Dad!*s episode "Next of Pin".

The song was used in an Intro Performance Trailer by K-pop group BTS in 2015.

The song served as the opening theme for the first season of Netflix's animated series Devil May Cry, which is based on the eponymous video game series.

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