Fred Durst Of Limp Bizkit Is Totally Unrecognizable Now - Best Life

If you lived through the ’90s and early 2000s, you’re familiar with Limp Bizkit, the rap-rock band known for songs like “Nookie” and “Break Stuff” that dominated the TRL countdown, when Carson Daly was the host of that MTV hit series and not a Today co-host. Limp Bizkit had quite the successful run during that era—the band was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance twice. Though it’s been about 20 years since the height of their fame, Limp Bizkit is hitting the road again this year and their first stop is this weekend, where they’ll perform at the famed Lollapalooza festival. While their sound may be the same, the band’s frontman, Fred Durst, looks completely different. To see the singer now, read on.

RELATED: MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes Made Her Debut Almost 30 Years Ago. See Her Now.

Fred Durst has a whole new look now.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Fred Durst (@freddurst)

On July 28, Durst, now 50 years old, shared a photo on his Instagram that might shock ’90s and ’00s kids. In the picture, the singer sports a horseshoe mustache, button-down shirt, and gray hair.

The new look is certainly different from Durst’s previous backward-red-hat, baggy-shirt uniform of the early aughts. Mysteriously, the caption of the new Instagram post is “Thinking about you 70.”

Considering Durst is only 50 years old, fans are wondering what it all means. Perhaps even more mysteriously, Durst deleted all other posts from his Instagram, leaving only this lone silver selfie.

Limp Bizkit came back together after a long hiatus, and has been working on an album for the last decade.

Although Durst is a successful musician, his original goal was to be a filmmaker. In 2016, Flipboard asked Durst what the highlight of his career was, and he said basically having one in the first place. “I guess being able to pull off actually getting a record deal from a garage and just somehow navigating an early entrepreneur business and hustle my way into getting some attention,” he said.

Then, he added, “It was a big deal for me to pull that off because I just always wanted to be a filmmaker; I thought I’d put together a band and direct some videos.” Obviously, Durst’s main focus quickly became music, but he didn’t forget about his first love.

In addition to directing and producing music videos for Limp Bizkit, he also directed movies like 2007’s The Education of Charlie Banks, 2008’s The Longshots, and 2019’s The Fanatic. “I never wanted to be in front of a camera,” he told Flipboard. “I wanted to be behind it, but it kind of went the other way.”

For more celeb content delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter.

Durst has two children, one of whom is in her 30s.