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Enable Cookies<\/a> Their statement ended by saying: “Rest easy, brother. Your music never ends.”<\/p>\n In a separate message, DJ Lethal said they were in shock, and added: “Rest in power my brother! You will live on through your music and the lives you helped save with your music, charity work and friendships.”<\/p>\n He urged his followers to “enjoy every millisecond of life”, adding: “It’s not guaranteed.”<\/p>\n Image: The band did not say how the musician died.<\/p>\n Formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994, Limp Bizkit released their debut album in 1997.<\/p>\n Image: Playing a fusion of rock and hip-hop dubbed nu-metal, their first big hit was 2000’s Take A Look Around – the theme from Mission Impossible 2 – followed by Rollin’, the song that took them to the top of the charts in the UK.<\/p>\n Read more on Sky News: The band sold an estimated 45 million albums, according to a royalties lawsuit filed in 2024.<\/p>\n They received three Grammy nominations in 2000 and 2001, and won three MTV Europe Music Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Rivers, the bassist with US nu-metal group Limp Bizkit, has died aged 48, his bandmates have said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-88623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n Limp Bizkit won MTV’s best rock video award for Significant Other in 2000. Pic: AP<\/p>\n
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