mgk and Fred Durst just dropped one of the most viscerally satisfying rock singles of the year. “Fix Ur Face” is out now, a hard-hitting fusion of 1990s nü-metal grit and mgk’s genre-bending alternative edge, with Durst delivering exactly the kind of peak performance that made Limp Bizkit impossible to ignore. The visual premiered on MTV Live, MTVU, and the Paramount Times Square billboards, and it hits as hard as the track itself.
Written and produced alongside longtime mgk collaborators SlimXX, BazeXX, RookXX, Nick Long, and No Love For The Middle Child, “Fix Ur Face” carries a cross-generational rawness that sits apart from virtually everything else out right now. Director Sam Cahill shot the black-and-white video across Berlin, Dublin, Düsseldorf, London, Prague, Cologne, Nashville, and Los Angeles during the lost americana tour, capturing unfiltered fan moments with no distance between artist and audience. Street artists Lugosis and Strato created the Berlin wall mural featured in the video, while Slawn Olaolu designed the character face and jackets. It’s a visual document of a tour that has been operating at full intensity.
The mgk and Fred Durst connection runs deep. They’ve shared stages and bills going back more than a decade, including mgk’s 2014 run with Limp Bizkit. “Fix Ur Face” is the natural product of that history, two artists with a genuine rapport making something that sounds like neither of them held back. mgk first teased the track during the European leg of the lost americana tour before performing a snippet on the Australian run, building anticipation the right way.
‘lost americana’ arrived last year as mgk’s third consecutive No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart. The album has produced a run of strong moments, from the inescapable “cliché” and its Jonas Brothers remix to the fan-favourite “times of my life” and music videos for “starman” and “goddamn” built from tour footage. “Fix Ur Face” adds another sharp entry to that catalog.
The lost americana tour returns to the US on May 15 with Wiz Khalifa on support. Dates and tickets are available now at mgk’s official site. After a European and Australian run that generated this much noise, the US leg arrives with serious momentum behind it.