MGK Recruits Fred Durst for a Nasty Nu Metal Team Up

I'll be real, I did not have mgk going full nu-metal with Fred Durst on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are. The new track is called Fix Ur Face, it dropped yesterday, and honestly, it goes pretty hard.

The song finds mgk leaning back into his rap roots, spitting bars over heavy, gritty nu-metal instrumentation while Durst fills the hype man role. It's not a full-blown Limp Bizkit feature in the traditional sense, but having Durst co-sign your nu-metal track carries serious weight. The whole thing sounds like it could've come out of a TRL episode in 2000, just with a little more self-awareness and a bass line that genuinely rattles.

The Track and the Connection

This collaboration didn't come out of nowhere. mgk and Durst go way back. They've shared stages and bills together for over a decade, including mgk's 2014 tour with Limp Bizkit. He's covered their songs live, shouted them out publicly, and has never been shy about how much that era of music shaped him. So when he teased this one on Instagram saying he's "been limping with the bizkit for years, time to do it again," it actually meant something.

Production-wise, Fix Ur Face was built with mgk's longtime collaborators SlimXX, BazeXX, RookXX, Nick Long, and No Love For The Middle Child. These are the same people who've helped him bounce between genres for years, so they know how to make this kind of pivot work.

The Music Video

The video, directed by Sam Cahill, is shot in black and white and pulls footage from all over the Lost Americana Tour. We're talking Berlin, Dublin, Düsseldorf, London, Prague, Cologne, Nashville, and Los Angeles. There's crowd footage, street footage, and some shots of mgk and Durst posted up by a pickup truck in what looks like the middle of nowhere. It fits.

The visual also features artwork from street artists Lugosis and Strato, who created a wall mural in Berlin, and Slawn Olaolu, who designed the character face and jackets seen throughout. The video premiered across MTV Live, MTVU, and the Paramount Times Square billboards. They went big with this one.

The Build-Up Was Real

If you've been following mgk on tour, you already heard this one coming. He first teased the track during the European leg of the Lost Americana Tour, then debuted it live on April 8 at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia. Durst wasn't there in person, but the crowd reaction was enough to confirm this thing had legs. Early reports even got the title wrong, calling it "All Around The World" before the official name surfaced.

Then came the Instagram rollout, complete with a link to fixurface.wtf where fans could hear a snippet and control when the track dropped. Smart marketing.

Where This Fits in the mgk Universe

Look, the man has never stayed in one lane. He came up as a rapper, pivoted to pop-punk with Tickets to My Downfall and Mainstream Sellout (both hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200), and then went full Americana with Lost Americana last August. That album, which featured a trailer narrated by Bob Dylan, became his third consecutive No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart. Now he's dipping into nu-metal. Whether you love it or roll your eyes, you can't say the guy plays it safe.

Fix Ur Face feels like a one-off moment rather than a full genre shift, but with mgk, you really never know what's next. He also recently dropped times of my life earlier this year and teamed up with Jonas Brothers for a remix of cliché late last year, so the man is clearly in album rollout mode and just throwing heat in every direction.

The Lost Americana Tour Keeps Rolling

This track drops right as mgk gears up for the spring and summer North American leg of the Lost Americana Tour. That run kicks off May 15 in Wheatland, California and wraps July 1 in Ridgefield, Washington. Wiz Khalifa co-headlines the North American amphitheater dates, with additional support from acts like honestav, Beauty School Dropout, DE'WAYNE, Mod Sun, and Emo Nite on select dates.

The tour already hit arenas across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. If you caught any of those dates, you know these shows have been stacked. And with Fix Ur Face now in the setlist conversation, the summer run just got a little more interesting.

Tickets for all upcoming dates are available now through Ticketmaster. Don't sleep on this one. The summer leg with Wiz Khalifa is going to be a problem.

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