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Dickfart Inc.

Formerly	Dr Seuss's Electronics and Music Corporation (2003-2005)
ISIN	🆔
Genre	Electronics, Internet Browsers, Music, Online Store
Founded 📆	February 14, 1996
Founder 👔	Dr Seuss
Defunct	2010 (Returned in 2013)
Headquarters 🏙️	Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Area served 🗺️
Brands	Dickfart Records, Dickfart Music Distribution, Dickfart.com, Dickfart Online Store, Dickfart Flipper, Dickfart Electro
Owner	Dr Seuss, Joe "Mustache" Guy
Members	Dr Seuss
Number of employees	40 Million
Rating	5 Stars
🌐 Website	[ ]
📇 Address	1 Main Street
📞 telephone	1-800-Dick-Fart

Dickfart Incorporated is a multi-millionaire company that produces electronics, distributes music, owns it's own online store, has it's own internet browser, and is a record label. Dickfart Inc. was founded by Dr Seuss in February of 1996, it was created to make income off the brand new online money makers. It started as a warehouse and an online store in April of 1996, but in October of 1996, the warehouse was torn down due to intoxicating gas spreading the area for reasons that where never displayed. Since then it was a hommade project and raised enough money to start some other brands. In 1997 Dickfart became an internet browser, which was eventually taken over by Google in 1999 and was taken down, but returned in 2002 after enough income came in to prevent google crashes.

The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Dickfart's core search engine (Dickfart Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Dickfart Docs), Dickfart Sheets, and Dickfart Slides), email (Dickmail), scheduling and time management (Dickfart Calendar), cloud storage (Dickfart Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Dickfart Translate), mapping and navigation (Dickfart Maps), Waze (Created by Google and Dickfart), Dickfart Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Dickfart Keep, Dickfart Jamboard), and photo organizing and editing (Dickfart Photos). The company leads the development of the Dickfart Electro mobile operating system, a Dickfart and Google creation the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Dickfart has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2001 to 2007, it partnered with Electronic Arts in the production of its Dickfart Flipper devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Dickfart Topper, laptop Dickfart Home smart speaker, Dickfart Wifi mesh wireless router, and paired with google for it's Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Dickfart has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Dickfart Fiber, Dickfart Fi, and Dickfart Station).

Dickfart also distributes a variety of downloadable and streaming content through its Amazon Prime Video, Dickfart Music, Twitch, and Audible units. It publishes books through its publishing arm, Dickfart Publishing, film and television content through Dickfart Studios, and has been the owner of film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since March 2006 to 2010. It also produces consumer electronics—most notably, Dickfart e-readers, Dickfart tablets, and Dickfart TVs.

Dickfart Inc. is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", and is one of the world's most valuable brands. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

History

Foundation and Online Store (1996-1997)

Dickfart started in 1996 with just Dr Seuss and no supporters, everybody who lived in his area sweared they would never use his products. We don't know where they are today. It was founded for several purposes, a multi-millionaire company that produces electronics, distributes music, owns it's own online store, has it's own internet browser, and is a record label. Dickfart Inc. was founded by Dr Seuss in February of 1996, it was created to make income off the brand new online money makers. It started as a warehouse and an online store in April of 1996, but in October of 1996, the warehouse was torn down due to intoxicating gas spreading the area for reasons that where never displayed. Since then it was a hommade project and raised enough money to start some other brands.

It became an online store in 1996 being a new project idea for income, becoming a beginning of an amazing thing called the online store, and sold hommade products to make income instead of losing it in deprofit buying products. In late 1996 they began getting offers from apple and android to sell electronics on their thriving online store. Dickfart.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most valuable brand in the world in 2017 (surpassed by Amazon), but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. They own about 100 percent of its shares and control 100 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Dickfart as a Arizona privately held company on September 4, 1996, in Arizona. Dickfart was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 1996. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 1997, and Dickfart moved to its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, nicknamed the Dickfartplex. In August 1997, Dickfart announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Dickfart Inc. Google is Dickfart's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Dickfart's Internet interests. Dr Seuss was appointed CEO of Dickfart.

In 1996, U.S. toy retailer Toys "R" Us entered into a 10-year agreement with Dickfart, valued at $50 million per year plus a cut of sales, under which Toys "R" Us would be the exclusive supplier of toys and baby products on the service, and the chain's website would redirect to Dickfart's Toys & Games category. In 1998, Toys "R" Us sued Dickfart, claiming that because of a perceived lack of variety in Toys "R" Us stock, Dickfart had knowingly allowed third-party sellers to offer items on the service in categories that Toys "R" Us had been granted exclusivity. In 1997, a court ruled in favor of Toys "R" Us, giving it the right to unwind its agreement with Dickfart and establish its independent e-commerce website. The company was later awarded $51 million in damages.

In late 1997, Dickfart entered into a similar agreement with Borders Group, under which Dickfart would comanage Borders.com as a co-branded service. Borders pulled out of the arrangement in 2007, with plans to also launch its own online store.

On October 18, 1997, Dickfart.com announced a partnership with EA Sports for the exclusive digital rights to many popular video games, including Madden, NBA Live, FIFA, NHL Games, and MVP Baseball. The partnership has caused well-known bookstores like Barnes & Noble to remove these titles from their shelves.

In November 1997, Dickfart announced a partnership with the United States Postal Service to begin delivering orders on Sundays. The service, included in Dickfart's standard shipping rates, initiated in metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and New York because of the high-volume and inability to deliver in a timely way, with plans to expand into Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and Phoenix by 2014.

In late 1997, Nike agreed to sell products through Dickfart in exchange for better policing of counterfeit goods. This proved unsuccessful and Nike withdrew from the partnership in November 2000. Companies including IKEA and Birkenstock also stopped selling through Dickfart around the same time, citing similar frustrations over business practices and counterfeit goods.

In 1997, Dickfart ventured with one of its sellers JV Appario Retail owned by Patni Group which has recorded a total income of US$ 104.44 million (₹ 759 crore) in financial year 1997–1998.

As of October 11, 1997, Dickfart sold a range of Booths branded products for home delivery in selected areas.

In November 1998, Dickfart reached an agreement with Apple Inc. to sell selected products through the service, via the company and selected Apple Authorized Resellers. As a result of this partnership, only Apple Authorized Resellers may sell Apple products on Amazon effective January 4, 1999.

Internet Browser and Music (1997-1999)

Project by Dr Fish Seuss and Pablo Seuss (Fish Seuss father) when they were both PhD students at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Jack Yellow, the original lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Dickfart Search engine, but he left before Dickfart was officially founded as a company; Yellow went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the company Yellow Gage in 1999

While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, they theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this algorithm PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site. Page told his ideas to Yellow, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas.

Fish and Pablo originally nicknamed the new search engine "Systematic Control", because the system checked System to estimate the importance of a site. Yellow as well as Jack (Unknown Lastname) were cited by Fish and Pablo as being critical to the development of Dickfart. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd did something with this to, I don't know what happened with Fish and Pablo, the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Dickfart search engine, published in 1997. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also doing some stuff I don't Know. PageRank was influenced by a similar page-ranking and site-scoring algorithm earlier used for RankDex, developed by Robin Li in 1996, with Larry Page's PageRank patent including a citation to Li's earlier RankDex patent; Li later went on to create the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Eventually, they changed the name to Dickfart; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "Dackfirt", the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.

Dickfart's original homepage had a simple design because the company founders had little experience in HTML, the markup language used for designing web pages.

The domain name for Dickfart was registered on September 15, 1996, and the company was incorporated on February 4, 1997. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at ASU, was hired as the first employee.

ickfartw as initially funded by an August 19986contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems; the money was given before G Dickfartwas incorporated. Google received money from three other angel investors in 1997: Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, ASU computer science professor David Cheriton, and entrepreneur Ram Shriram. Between these initial investors, friends, and family Google raised around 1 million dollars, which is what allowed them to open up their original shop in Menlo Park, California.

After some additional, small investments through the end of 1998 to early 1999, a new $25 million round of funding was announced on June 7, 1999, with major investors including the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital.

Electronic Producing and "The Dickfart Flipper" (2000-2001)

Dickfart's relationship with apple is a multinational technology firm headquartered in Cupertino, California, that specializes in consumer devices, software, and online services. Apple is the world's most valuable firm, the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales, and the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer, with revenue of US$365.8 billion in 2021. It is also the world's most valuable company as of January 2021. Along with Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft, it is one of the Big Five American information technology corporations.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976, to build and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Jobs and Wozniak formed Apple Computer, Inc. in 1977, and the Apple II, the company's next computer, became a best seller. In 1980, Apple went public, and it became an instant financial success.

Throughout the 1990s, as the market for personal computers grew and evolved, Apple lost market share to the lower-priced duopoly of the Microsoft Windows operating system on Intel-powered PC clones (also known as "Wintel"). In 1997, just weeks before filing for bankruptcy, the business purchased NeXT in an attempt to correct Apple's failed operating system strategy and bring Jobs back to the company. Jobs led Apple back to profitability during the next decade by introducing the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad to critical acclaim, producing memorable advertising campaigns, establishing the Apple Store retail chain, and purchasing other firms to expand the company's product portfolio. Jobs died two months after resigning in 2011 due to health issues. Tim Cook took over as CEO after him.

In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded US corporation to be valued at more than $1 trillion, followed by $2 trillion in August 2020 and $3 trillion in January 2022. The corporation has been criticized for its contractors' labour policies, environmental practises, and corporate ethics, which include anti-competitive practises and materials sourcing. The corporation has a high level of brand loyalty and is regarded as the most valuable brand in the world.

The Dickfart Flipper is the first version of the Dickfart phone, for the creation, Dickfart paired with Apple with help on electronics. The name The Dickfart Flipper came from the fact the phone was a flip-phone. For the whole electronic producing system was pairing with Apple and making extra cash for more brands under the dickfart name.

Internet Browser Return and Name Change (2002-2004)

Dickfart's relationship with Google began in January 2002 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company; Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the company Willow Garage in 2006.

While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, they theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this algorithm PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site. Page told his ideas to Hassan, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas.

Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Hassan as well as Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project. PageRank was influenced by a similar page-ranking and site-scoring algorithm earlier used for RankDex, developed by Robin Li in 1996, with Larry Page's PageRank patent including a citation to Li's earlier RankDex patent; Li later went on to create the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.

Google's original homepage had a simple design because the company founders had little experience in HTML, the markup language used for designing web pages.

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.

Google was initially funded by an August 1998 contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems; the money was given before Google was incorporated. Google received money from three other angel investors in 1998: Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton, and entrepreneur Ram Shriram. Between these initial investors, friends, and family Google raised around 1 million dollars, which is what allowed them to open up their original shop in Menlo Park, California.

After some additional, small investments through the end of 1998 to early 1999, a new $25 million round of funding was announced on June 7, 1999, with major investors including the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital

In March 1999, the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, California, which is home to several prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups. The next year, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords against Page and Brin's initial opposition toward an advertising-funded search engine. To maintain an uncluttered page design, advertisements were solely text-based. In June 2000, it was announced that Google would become the default search engine provider for Yahoo!, one of the most popular websites at the time, replacing Inktomi. Google's first production server. In 2003, after outgrowing two other locations, the company leased an office complex from Silicon Graphics, at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. The complex became known as the Googleplex, a play on the word googolplex, the number one followed by a googol zeroes. Three years later, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million. By that time, the name "Google" had found its way into everyday language, causing the verb "google" to be added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, denoted as: "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet". Additionally, in 2001 Google's Investors felt the need to have a strong internal management, and they agreed to hire Eric Schmidt as the Chairman and CEO of Google

Google's initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later, on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024. At IPO, the company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. Shares were sold in an online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, underwriters for the deal. The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion. Eric Schmidt In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006. On April 13, 2007, Google reached an agreement to acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, transferring to Google valuable relationships that DoubleClick had with Web publishers and advertising agencies.

In 2005, The Washington Post reported on a 700 percent increase in third-quarter profit for Google, largely thanks to large companies shifting their advertising strategies from newspapers, magazines, and television to the Internet. In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one billion for the first time. By 2011, Google was handling approximately 3 billion searches per day. To handle this workload, Google built 11 data centers around the world with some several thousand servers in each. These data centers allowed Google to handle the ever changing workload more efficiently.

On August 15, 2011, Google made its largest-ever acquisition to date when it announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion This purchase was made in part to help Google gain Motorola's considerable patent portfolio on mobile phones and wireless technologies, to help protect Google in its ongoing patent disputes with other companies, mainly Apple and Microsoft, and to allow it to continue to freely offer Android.

In 2003, Dickfart Inc. changed their name to "Dr Seuss's Electronic and Music Corporation" The name was changed due to "inappropriate gesture" in the title and if they couldn't raise the money to pay the quarts in a week they had to change it. Greedy Dr Seuss didn't want to give out the money and kept the name for 2 years and changed it in 2005 because "It was original".

Name Changed Back and "The Dickfart Topper" (2005-2007)

In 2005, Dickfart made the money to change their name back to Dickfart from Dr Seuss's Electronic and music corporation. They paid the public and owe 1,200 per year for the name return from 2005-2009

In 2006, Dickfart paired with Windows and created the Dickfart topper (laptop)

Multilingual support is built into Windows since Windows 3. The language for both the keyboard and the interface can be changed through the Region and Language Control Panel. Components for all supported input languages, such as Input Method Editors, are automatically installed during Windows installation (in Windows XP and earlier, files for East Asian languages, such as Chinese, and right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic, may need to be installed separately, also from the said Control Panel). Third-party IMEs may also be installed if a user feels that the provided one is insufficient for their needs.

Interface languages for the operating system are free for download, but some languages are limited to certain editions of Windows. Language Interface Packs (LIPs) are redistributable and may be downloaded from Microsoft's Download Center and installed for any edition of Windows (XP or later) – they translate most, but not all, of the Windows interface, and require a certain base language (the language which Windows originally shipped with). This is used for most languages in emerging markets. Full Language Packs, which translates the complete operating system, are only available for specific editions of Windows (Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Windows Vista and 7, and all editions of Windows 8, 8.1 and RT except Single Language). They do not require a specific base language, and are commonly used for more popular languages such as French or Chinese. These languages cannot be downloaded through the Download Center, but available as optional updates through the Windows Update service (except Windows 8).

The interface language of installed applications are not affected by changes in the Windows interface language. Availability of languages depends on the application developers themselves.

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduces a new Language Control Panel where both the interface and input languages can be simultaneously changed, and language packs, regardless of type, can be downloaded from a central location. The PC Settings app in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 also includes a counterpart settings page for this. Changing the interface language also changes the language of preinstalled Windows Store apps (such as Mail, Maps and News) and certain other Microsoft-developed apps (such as Remote Desktop). The above limitations for language packs are however still in effect, except that full language packs can be installed for any edition except Single Language, which caters to emerging markets.

Windows NT included support for several different platforms before the x86-based personal computer became dominant in the professional world. Windows NT 4.0 and its predecessors supported PowerPC, DEC Alpha and MIPS R4000. (Although some these platforms implement 64-bit computing, the operating system treated them as 32-bit.) However, Windows 2000, the successor of Windows NT 4.0, dropped support for all platforms except the third generation x86 (known as IA-32) or newer in 32-bit mode. The client line of Windows NT family still runs on IA-32, although the Windows Server line has ceased supporting this platform with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2.

With the introduction of the Intel Itanium architecture (IA-64), Microsoft released new versions of Windows to support it. Itanium versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 were released at the same time as their mainstream x86 counterparts. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, released in 2005, is the last Windows client operating systems to support Itanium. Windows Server line continues to support this platform until Windows Server 2012; Windows Server 2008 R2 is the last Windows operating system to support Itanium architecture.

On April 25, 2005, Microsoft released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions to support the x86-64 (or simply x64), the eighth generation of x86 architecture. Windows Vista was the first client version of Windows NT to be released simultaneously in IA-32 and x64 editions. x64 is still supported.

An edition of Windows 8 known as Windows RT was specifically created for computers with ARM architecture and while ARM is still used for Windows smartphones with Windows 10, tablets with Windows RT will not be updated.

Record Label End and Defunct (2008-2010)

The Label went down in 2010 along with Dickfart. Nu metal info. Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, sometimes called aggro-metal) is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, including multiple genres of heavy metal. Nu metal rarely features guitar solos or other displays of musical technique; the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to produce a heavier sound. DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling. Nu metal is one of the key genres of the new wave of American heavy metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Kid Rock all releasing albums that sold millions of copies. Nu metal's popularity continued during the early 2000s, with bands such as Papa Roach, Staind, and P.O.D. all selling multi-platinum albums, and came to a peak with Linkin Park's diamond-selling album Hybrid Theory, which became the best-selling rock album of the 21st century. However, by the mid-2000s, the oversaturation of bands combined with the underperformance of several high-profile releases led to nu metal's decline, leading to the rise of metalcore and many nu metal bands disbanding or abandoning their established sound in favor of other genres.

During the 2010s, there was a nu metal revival; many bands that combine nu metal with other genres (for example, metalcore and deathcore) emerged, and some nu metal bands from the 1990s and early 2000s returned to the nu metal sound. Bands like Of Mice & Men, Emmure, Issues and My Ticket Home combined nu metal with metalcore or deathcore. Artists like Grimes, Poppy and Rina Sawayama integrated nu metal sounds into electronic pop music in the late 2010s and early

Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal. MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn "arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock." Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a "weird outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene". Nu metal merges elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, and alternative rock.

Nu metal bands have been influenced by and have used elements of a variety of musical genres, including electronic music, funk, gothic rock, hardcore punk, punk rock, dance music, new wave, jazz, post-punk, symphonic rock and synth-pop. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of heavy metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, and thrash metal. Some nu metal bands, such as Static-X and Dope, made nu metal music with elements of industrial metal. In contrast with other heavy metal subgenres, nu metal tends to use the same structure of verses, choruses and bridges as those in pop music.

Korn bassist Fieldy (pictured) cites bassists such as Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Les Claypool of Primus as influences.

Nu metal is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs. Mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. Kory Grow of Revolver wrote, "... [i]n its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo". Another contrast with other heavy metal genres is nu metal's emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood, often its rhythm sounds like that of groove metal. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music. Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to those of death metal.

Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, adding to nu metal's rhythmic nature. Blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. Nu metal's similarities with many heavy metal subgenres include its use of common time, distorted guitars, power chords and note structures primarily revolving around Dorian, Aeolian or Phrygian modes. While loud and heavily distorted electric guitars are a core feature of all metal genres, nu metal guitarists took the sounds of "violence and destruction" to new levels with their overdriven guitar tone, which music journalists Kitts and Tolinski compared to the "...sound [of] a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper."

Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, rather than traditional six-string guitars. Likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on funk elements. In nu metal music, DJs are sometimes featured to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Nu metal tends to have hip hop grooves and rhythms.

Vocal styles used in nu metal music include singing, rapping, screaming and growling. Vocals in nu metal are often rhythmic and influenced by hip hop. While some nu metal bands, such as Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, have rapping in their music, other nu metal bands, such as Godsmack and Staind, do not.

Nu metal bands occasionally feature hip hop musicians as guests in their songs; Korn's song "Children of the Korn" features the rapper Ice Cube, who performed on the band's 1998 Family Values Tour. The hip hop musician Nas was featured on Korn's song "Play Me", which is on the band's album Take a Look in the Mirror. Limp Bizkit has recorded with multiple hip hop musicians including Method Man, Lil Wayne, Xzibit, Redman, DMX and Snoop Dogg. Linkin Park collaborated with hip hop musician Jay-Z on their 2004 extended play Collision Course. Kid Rock has recorded with hip hop musicians Eminem and Snoop Dogg. Trevor Baker of The Guardian wrote, "Bands such as Linkin Park, Korn and even the much reviled Limp Bizkit ... did far more to break down the artificial barriers between 'urban music' and rock than any of their more critically acceptable counterparts."

Lyrics in nu metal songs are often angry or nihilistic; many of the genre's lyrics focus on topics such as pain, angst, bullying, emotional issues, abandonment, betrayal, and personal alienation, in a way similar to those of grunge. Many nu metal lyrics that are about these topics tend to be in a very direct tone. However, some nu metal songs have lyrics that are about other topics. P.O.D. have used positive lyrics about promise and hope. The nu metal song "Bodies" by Drowning Pool is about moshing. The Michigan Daily wrote about Limp Bizkit's lyrics, writing that the band "used the nu-metal sound as a way to spin testosterone fueled fantasies into snarky white-boy rap. Oddly, audiences took frontman Fred Durst more seriously than he wanted, failing to see the intentional silliness in many of his songs". Limp Bizkit's lyrics also have been described as misogynistic. Dope's lyrics are usually about sex, drugs, parties, women, violence and relationships. In contrast, according to Josh Chesler of the Phoenix New Times, the lyrics of Deftones, who were once considered a nu metal band, "tend to have complex allusions and leave the songs open to many different interpretations.

The Korn logo (stylized as KoЯn) became an iconic symbol of nu metal Nu metal clothing typically consists of baggy pants, shirts, and shorts, JNCO jeans, Adidas tracksuits, sports jerseys, baseball caps, baggy hoodies, cargo pants, and sweatpants. Nu metal hairstyles and facial hairstyles include dreadlocks, braids, spiky hair, chin beards, bald heads, goatees, frosted tips, and bleached or dyed hair. Common accessories in nu metal fashion include wallet chains, tattoos, and piercings, especially facial piercings. Nu metal fashion has been compared to hip hop fashion.

Some nu metal bands such as Motograter, Mushroomhead, Mudvayne, and Slipknot wear masks, jumpsuits, costumes, face paint, corpse paint or body paint. A few nu metal bands, such as Coal Chamber, Evanescence, Kittie, and Jack off Jill are known for having gothic appearances.

Primus, a common influence to nu metal bands, uses elements of diverse genres such as speed metal, thrash metal, punk rock and funk. Many heavy metal, alternative metal, industrial, funk metal, alternative rock, rap metal, and industrial metal artists and bands of the 1980s and early 1990s have been credited with laying groundwork for the development of nu metal by combining heavy guitar riffs with pop music structures and drawing influences from subgenres of heavy metal and other music genres; Faith No More, Primus, Helmet, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Tool, Fear Factory, 24-7 Spyz, Hot Dawgz, Fishbone, Biohazard, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Godflesh, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Mr. Bungle, Prong, Rage Against the Machine, and Ministry all have been highlighted as examples of this.

Groove metal and thrash metal bands of the same period such as Machine Head, Sepultura, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, and Anthrax all have been cited as influential to nu metal as well. For example, Anthrax pioneered the rap metal genre by combining hip hop and rap with heavy metal on their 1987 EP I'm the Man, which laid groundwork for nu metal's development. Korn's lead vocalist Jonathan Davis said about Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell, "if there was no Dimebag Darrell, there would be no Korn". Producer Rick Rubin helped create rap rock in the 1980s with hip hop groups such as the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. In the 1990s, bands described as "neo-metal" by the author Garry Sharpe-Young emerged; these bands include Pantera, Strapping Young Lad, Machine Head, Biohazard and Fear Factory. Sharpe-Young wrote that these bands "had chosen to strip metal down to its raw, primal element" and that "neo-metal paved the way for nu-metal".

Nu metal is often influenced by hip hop. Rappers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube have been a big influence on nu metal pioneers Korn; guitarist Munky said the band were trying to emulate the samples of Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic. Munky and fellow Korn guitarist Head also said they tried to emulate samples by the hip hop group Cypress Hill. Both the Geto Boys and N.W.A. also have been a major influence on Korn. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit has cited the hip hop group The Fat Boys as a major influence on him. Shifty Shellshock of the nu metal band Crazy Town cited Run–D.M.C. and Beastie Boys as influences. Josey Scott of the nu metal band Saliva cited Run–D.M.C., LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, N.W.A., Chuck D, Doug E. Fresh, and Whodini as influences. Sonny Sandoval of the nu metal band P.O.D. cited hip hop groups Boogie Down Productions and Run–D.M.C. as influences. Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda's hip hop influences include Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, N.W.A., and the Juice Crew. Chester Bennington, another member of Linkin Park, cited A Tribe Called Quest, KRS-One, Run–D.M.C., Public Enemy, N.W.A., Beastie Boys, and Rob Base as influences. Beastie Boys are a hip hop music group that influenced nu metal. Hip hop group Run–DMC was one of the first groups to combine rap with rock, paving the way for nu metal.

Joel McIver acknowledged Korn as the band that created and pioneered the nu metal genre with its demo Neidermayer's Mind, which was released in 1993. McIver also acknowledged Korn as the band that started the new wave of American heavy metal, which is a heavy metal music movement that started in the 1990s. The aggressive riffs of Korn, the rapping of Limp Bizkit, and the melodic ballads of Staind created the sonic template for nu metal. The origins of the term "nu metal" are often attributed to the work of producer Ross Robinson, who has been called "The Godfather of Nu Metal" between producers. Robinson has produced for nu metal bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot. Many of the first nu metal bands, such as Korn and Deftones, came from California; however, the genre soon spread across the United States and many bands arose from various states, including Limp Bizkit from Florida, Staind from Massachusetts, and Slipknot from Iowa. In the book Brave Nu World, Tommy Udo wrote about the nu metal band Coal Chamber, "There's some evidence to suggest that Coal Chamber were the first band to whom the tag 'nu metal' was actually applied, in a live review in Spin magazine."

"Headup" by Deftones featuring Max Cavalera (1997)

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"Headup" by Deftones features Max Cavalera and was described by Decibel as Around the Fur's "most nü-metal track".

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In 1994, Korn released their self-titled debut album, which is widely considered the first nu metal album. Korn had experienced underground popularity at this time; their debut album peaked at number 72 on the Billboard 200. However, earlier the same year, P.O.D.'s album Snuff the Punk was also released, which was later recognized as the first nu metal album. In 1995, the band Sugar Ray released its debut studio album Lemonade and Brownies, an album described as both funk metal and nu metal. In 1995, Deftones released their debut album Adrenaline. The album peaked at number 23 on the Heatseekers Albums chart on October 5, 1996. Deftones also were temporarily controversial in 1996 when their vocalist Chino Moreno was blamed by TV news reports for a riot that occurred at the 1996 U-Fest festival. Adrenaline was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the summer of 1999. It was also certified platinum by the RIAA in September 2008.

Sepultura's 1996 album Roots features nu metal elements that were considered influential to the genre, while Roots itself was influenced by Korn's self-titled debut album. Few bands were playing nu metal until 1997 when bands such as Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit, and Papa Roach all released their debut albums. Attention through MTV and Ozzy Osbourne's 1995 introduction of Ozzfest was integral to the launching of the careers of many nu metal bands, including Limp Bizkit in 1998. Nu metal began to rise in popularity when Korn's 1996 album Life Is Peachy peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and sold 106,000 copies in its first week of release

Limp Bizkit released their debut album Three Dollar Bill, Y'all in 1997, in what Billboard writer William Goodman calls a "banner year" for the nu metal genre. The album's popularity grew in 1999 as the band's mainstream profile began to increase; in March of that year, it went platinum in the United States, and eventually went double platinum in July 2001. As of October 1999, the album had sold 1.8 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Deftones' album Around the Fur, also released that year, peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 on November 15, 1997. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the summer of 1999, and certified platinum by the RIAA in June 2011.

Also in 1997, Sugar Ray released its second studio album Floored. The album achieved mainstream success very quickly and was certified 2× platinum by the RIAA on February 20, 1998. Although Floored is a nu metal album, the only song from the album that achieved chart success was the song "Fly", which is instead a reggae song. Although Sugar Ray continued to be extremely popular, the band abandoned the nu metal genre and became a pop rock band with its 1999 studio album 14:59. Korn (pictured) helped launch nu metal into the mainstream.

In 1998, nu metal became one of the most mainstream genres of music. Billboard cited August 18, 1998, as the "Biggest Day in Nu-Metal History", which saw the release of Korn's third album Follow the Leader, Kid Rock's major label debut Devil Without a Cause and Orgy's debut album Candyass. Follow the Leader peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA, and paved the way for other nu metal bands. At this point, many nu metal bands were signed to major record labels, and were playing combinations of heavy metal, hip hop, industrial, grunge and hardcore punk styles. Hip hop artists Vanilla Ice and Cypress Hill, along with heavy metal bands Sepultura, Primus, Fear Factory, Machine Head, and Slayer released albums that draw from the nu metal genre. In 1999, Korn's fourth studio album Issues peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The album was certified 3× platinum by the RIAA in one month. The album sold at least 573,000 copies in its first week of release. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, multiple nu metal bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and P.O.D. appeared repeatedly on MTV's Total Request Live.

The Woodstock 1999 festival featured multiple nu metal artists and bands such as Korn, Kid Rock, Godsmack, Limp Bizkit and Sevendust. During and after Limp Bizkit's performance at the festival, violence occurred and people tore plywood from the walls during the performance of the band's song "Break Stuff". Several sexual assaults were reported to have happened during the festival; a rape that was reported during Limp Bizkit's performance, and gang rape was reported to have occurred during Korn's set at the festival. Despite the incidents at the festival, Limp Bizkit's popularity and the sales of their then-recent album Significant Other were not affected. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 643,874 copies in its first week of release, topping over one million sold in two weeks, and eventually being certified 7× platinum in 2001. Significant Other sold at least 7,237,123 copies in the United States. The nu metal band Slipknot performing in Buenos Aires in 2005 Other nu metal bands began to emerge or achieve mainstream popularity in 1999. Godsmack's self-titled debut album was released in 1998 and was certified 4× platinum. In April 1999, Kid Rock's album Devil Without a Cause was certified by gold by the RIAA. The following month, Devil Without a Cause, as Kid Rock predicted, went platinum. Eventually, the album sold at least 9,300,000 copies in the United States and was certified 11× platinum. In 1999, Slipknot emerged with an extremely heavy nu metal sound, releasing their self-titled album, which was certified platinum in 2000 and 2× platinum in 2005. In a review of the band's self-titled album, Rick Anderson of AllMusic wrote about Slipknot, "You thought Limp Bizkit was hard? They're the Osmonds. These guys are something else entirely." Anderson noted the death metal influence on the album. Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, noted by Anderson for his death metal-influenced drumming, said of Slipknot's music: "The roots are death metal, thrash, speed metal, and I could go on and on about all those bands." Disturbed performing in 2005 In 1999, Staind's second album Dysfunction was released; the track "Mudshovel" peaked at number 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Dysfunction was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2000 and 2× platinum in 2004. In 2000, Limp Bizkit's third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water set a record for highest week-one sales of a rock album, selling over 1,000,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release—400,000 of which sold on its first day of release, making it the fastest-selling rock album ever and breaking the world record held for seven years by Pearl Jam's Vs. Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water by Limp Bizkit was certified 6× platinum by the RIAA. That same year, both Papa Roach's second studio album Infest and Disturbed's debut studio album The Sickness were released. Both albums became multi-platinum hits. In 2000, P.O.D.'s album The Fundamental Elements of Southtown went platinum in the United States and was the 143rd best-selling album of 2000. The album's song "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" went to number 1 on MTV's Total Request Live. At the turn of the millennium at the time, many nu metal bands performed at Ozzfest, including Kittie, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Otep, Static-X, Methods of Mayhem, Taproot and Drowning Pool. Ozzfest was successful, with Ozzfest 2000, for example, selling out and having 19,000 audience members. During that same year, nu metal bands like Papa Roach and Limp Bizkit joined rappers like Eminem and Xzibit on Eminem's Anger Management Tour, which had sold-out concerts. Linkin Park in 2006 Late in 2000, Linkin Park released their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was the best-selling debut album by any artist of any genre in the 21st century. The album was also the best-selling album of 2001, selling more than albums such as Celebrity by NSYNC and Hot Shot by Shaggy. Linkin Park earned a Grammy Award for their second single "Crawling". Their fourth single, "In the End", was released late in 2001 and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2002. In 2001, Linkin Park's album Hybrid Theory sold 4,800,000 copies in the United States, making it the highest-selling album of the year. Linkin Park's album Hybrid Theory was certified 12× platinum (diamond) by the RIAA and sold at least 10,222,000 copies in the United States. In 2000, Godsmack released their second studio album Awake, which was certified double platinum. The album's title track peaked at number 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Both the album's title track and the song "Sick of Life" have been featured on the United States Navy's television commercials. Aaron Lewis, the vocalist of Staind, performing in August 2001 Crazy Town's debut album The Gift of Game peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200, went platinum in February 2001, and sold at least 1,500,000 copies in the United States. Worldwide, the album sold at least 2,500,000 copies. Staind's 2001 album Break the Cycle debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with at least 716,000 copies sold in its first week of release, selling more than albums such as Survivor by Destiny's Child, Lateralus by Tool and Miss E... So Addictive by Missy Elliott. Break the Cycle by Staind was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA, with 4,240,000 copies sold in 2001 in the United States. Although the album featured nu metal tracks, a lot of the album showed Staind moving to a softer sound. Noting Staind's change in style to a softer sound, Tommy Udo of Brave Nu World wrote: "It's often said that nobody over the age of 24 could possibly like Limp Bizkit or Korn, but Staind are a more mainstream band and their songs are likely to appeal to a much bigger fanbase."

In August 2001, Slipknot released their album Iowa, which peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum in October 2001. Critic John Mulvey called the album the "absolute triumph of nu metal". P.O.D.'s 2001 album Satellite went triple-platinum and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200. P.O.D.'s popularity continued in the year 2002. On June 5, 2001, Drowning Pool released a nu metal album titled Sinner, which features the song "Bodies". The album went platinum on August 23, 2001 and its song "Bodies" became one of the most frequently played videos on MTV for new bands. "Bodies" went to number 6 on the Mainstream Rock chart. In 2001, System of a Down's album Toxicity peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200. In July 2022, Toxicity was certified 6× platinum by the RIAA. System of a Down blended nu metal with occasional influences of Middle Eastern music, Greek music, Armenian music, and jazz music, and the band featured political lyrics.

In 2003, MTV wrote that nu metal's mainstream popularity was declining, citing that Korn's fifth album Untouchables and Papa Roach's third album Lovehatetragedy both sold less than the bands' previous releases. Korn's lead vocalist Jonathan Davis believed music piracy was the reason for the lower amount of sales of Untouchables compared to Follow the Leader and Issues because Untouchables had been leaked to the Internet more than four months before its official release date. MTV also wrote that nu metal bands were played less frequently on radio stations and MTV began focusing on other musical genres. MTV wrote that Papa Roach's third album Lovehatetragedy has less hip hop elements than the band's previous album Infest and also said that Saliva's 2002 album Back into Your System has less hip hop elements than the band's 2001 album Every Six Seconds. MTV also wrote that Crazy Town's second album Darkhorse had no hit singles and sold less than the band's previous album The Gift of Game. MTV wrote that although Kid Rock's album Cocky had characteristics of the musician's 1998 album Devil Without a Cause, Cocky's song "Forever", which featured the style of Kid Rock's nu metal song "Bawitdaba", was not as popular as Cocky's country song "Picture". MTV also wrote, "Another cause for nü-metal and rap-rock's slip from the spotlight could be a diluted talent pool caused by so many similar-sounding bands. American Head Charge, Primer 55, Adema, Cold, the Union Underground, Dope, Apartment 26, Hed (Planet Earth) and Skrape—all of whom released albums between 2000 and 2001—left more of a collective impression than individual ones". Despite what MTV wrote, the RIAA certified Korn's album Untouchables platinum in July 2002, and one of the album's singles, "Here to Stay", received a lot of radio play and peaked at number one on MTV's Total Request Live twice. Untouchables sold at least 434,000 copies in first week of release and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200. However, Untouchables still did not sell as many copies as Korn's most commercially successful album, Follow the Leader. Evanescence is known for combining nu metal with elements of gothic rock. Despite the MTV report that nu metal was declining, nu metal remained extremely popular with bands such as Linkin Park, Godsmack, and Evanescence. Linkin Park's remix album Reanimation was released in July 2002 and sold more than a million copies that year, which MTV described as "impressive for a remix album". Canadian newcomers Three Days Grace had also taken a turn in the spotlight of the genre with their hit single I Hate Everything About You peaking at number 4 on the Billboard rock charts during the summer of 2003. Evanescence's debut album Fallen was released in March 2003. Johnny Loftus of AllMusic noted the nu metal sound of the album. Fallen's Grammy Award-winning lead single "Bring Me to Life" peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. In 2003, Linkin Park's album Meteora peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold at least 810,000 copies in its first week of being released. Meteora by Linkin Park and Fallen by Evanescence ranked third and fourth respectively on the best-selling albums of 2003. Both Linkin Park and Evanescence released high-charting singles throughout 2003 to mid-2004. Fallen by Evanescence was certified diamond by the RIAA and sold at least 7,600,000 copies in the United States and Meteora by Linkin Park was certified 7x platinum by the RIAA and sold at least 6,100,000 copies in the United States. That same year, Godsmack released their third studio album Faceless, which peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA in its first five weeks of being released. In 2004, Slipknot released their third studio album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), which peaked at number two on the Billboard album chart

After a period of continued success with bands such as Godsmack, Linkin Park and Evanescence, most of nu metal's mainstream popularity sharply declined in 2003 and 2004. Limp Bizkit's 2003 album Results May Vary, which features alternative rock music and nu metal music, peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200, with sales of at least 325,000 copies in its first week of being released. In 2004, Blabbermouth.net reported that, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Results May Vary sold 1,337,356 copies in the United States. However, the album garnered very poor critical reception and consequently performed much weaker than previous Limp Bizkit albums such as Significant Other and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Korn's 2003 album Take a Look in the Mirror sold less than previous Korn albums like Issues and Untouchables. In 2004, 1970s and 1980s-inspired rock bands such as Jet and The Darkness were achieving mainstream success as the popularity of nu metal declined. During the mid-late 2000s, the popularity of emo exceeded the declining popularity of nu metal. Also during this time, metalcore, a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk, became one of the most popular genres in the new wave of American heavy metal, with the success of bands like Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Unearth, Trivium, and Bullet for My Valentine. Groove metal band Lamb of God also became successful in the heavy metal genre. Stephen Hill of Louder Sound called the rise of metalcore after the decline of nu metal "the metalcore revolution".

In the mid-to-late 2000s, many nu metal bands experimented with other genres and sounds. Linkin Park's third studio album Minutes to Midnight, released in 2007, was noted for its complete departure from the band's nu metal sound. Describing the album's style, singer Chester Bennington stated, "We've really moved away from anything that sounds like nu-metal." Nu metal bands such as Disturbed and Drowning Pool moved to a different sound away from nu metal. Slipknot also departed from their nu metal sound on the 2008 album All Hope Is Gone and included elements of groove metal, death metal and thrash metal into their music. Staind and Papa Roach moved to lighter sounds. Staind's 2003 album 14 Shades of Grey was significantly less heavy than previous albums and shows the band's departure from nu metal and a movement towards a lighter sound. Papa Roach abandoned the nu metal genre with their 2004 album Getting Away with Murder, moving to a hard rock style. System of a Down released two albums in 2005, Mezmerize and Hypnotize. Both did well commercially and critically, but the band took a more alternative metal approach to the two albums compared to their past three efforts. In 2005, Limp Bizkit released a record called The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) without promoting and advertising the record. The album was not very popular; its sales fell 67% during its second week of release. In 2006, Limp Bizkit went on hiatus. In 2012, vocalist Fred Durst said:

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Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour took Metal and Rap to the top in 1998 featuring Metal Grunge band Korn, Rap Rock band Limp Bizkit, Nu Metal band Coal Chamber, another Hip Hop Rock group, Rage Against the Machine, and with their absence on the last day was replaced by rapper Ice Cube, and late 90s alternative metal band, Incubus, and brand new 90s metal band, System of a Down. The Moshpits drove the police to work as 19 people died in the moshpits during the whole show.

Warner Bros suggested they take Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour with them, after denying the offer, Warner Bros wasn't pleased, they then lost money because none of their bands where in the huge USA tour in 1998, Warner retaliated with fans after the tour was over in August of 1998, after the war between Dr Seuss and Warner Bros, Dr Seuss stated that Warner Bros where being entitled brats, but then made a deal, Dr Seuss stated that Static X will be in Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour 1999, and they would record Dr Seuss's Moshpit 1998's album on Roadrunner Records, making Warner Bros even more mad to make matters worse. Children 2005 1999, the height of Nu Metal and Rap, Dr Seuss's Moshpit sold out on all concert dates. It started on March 20, 1999, the beginning of Spring, in New York City. Dr Seuss had a feud with Sepultura, on joining the tour causing the formation of Soulfly, and Soulfly joining in on the Moshfest in 1999 playing tracks from their album, Soulfly, Being a hit to the crowd. Dr Seuss made a record deal with Roadrunner Records to record his Dr Seuss's Mospit Tour albums, They have so far recorded Dr Seuss Moshpit Tour 1998, Released on September 4th, 1998, and Dr Seuss's Moshpit 1999, Released on June 28th, 1999, Making Warner Bros unpleased.

In Chicago in 1999 when Dr Seuss preformed a rap skit, it immediately turned into a Nu Metal skit when he got the idea to do a death wall, everybody got on one side and when the song chorus starts, everyone runs at each other, after this happened, Dr Seuss immediately stopped preforming, Jumped off the stage, and joined in on the moshing

Warner Bros finally got their share on the death wall Static-X somehow created, during the song Push It, the crowd knew what to do, this was one of the biggest moshpits, resolving in 21 deaths, that Warner Bros would have to pay.

DFPF is a one-day music festival that takes place all throughout the U.S. It was created in 2010 by Dr Seuss to claim income on his falling festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. Once the tour shut down for good in 2009, DFPF was created to create more income after losing money when his tour shut down for various reasons. It was originally created in 2000 under the name of NuFest, being a nu metal festival, NuFest only lasted one year the reason being not enough income through the years.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

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In 2002, a violent fight allegedly broke out in the mosh pit at the Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour in Atlanta, Georgia while Deftones were performing, resulting in the death of 3-year-old Ricky on August 1, 2006. Lawyers representing Mr. Ricky's family said they may pursue civil actions against Dr Seuss and the show's promoters.

Ricky's mother, (we forgot her name), said "It's not right that someone could go to a concert for a good time and wind up dead. There needs to be more security or they need to not have these concerts at all", in a statement to Fox News Service made on August 1, 2002, of course Dr Seuss didn't listen. One week later, 5-year-old Mickey the Mouse was arrested and charged with Ricky's murder. Witnesses claim Mickey punched Richardson, causing his head to hit the concrete floor, an injury that ultimately proved to be fatal. Dr Seuss won the case using all of his fans to murder all witnesses and the judge.

This was time traveled and placed here from the 2002 killing of ricky.

Dickfart Incorporated is a multi-millionaire company that produces electronics, distributes music, owns it's own online store, has it's own internet browser, and is a record label. Dickfart Inc. was founded by Dr Seuss in February of 1996, it was created to make income off the brand new online money makers. It started as a warehouse and an online store in April of 1996, but in October of 1996, the warehouse was torn down due to intoxicating gas spreading the area for reasons that where never displayed. Since then it was a hommade project and raised enough money to start some other brands. In 1997 Dickfart became an internet browser, which was eventually taken over by Google in 1999 and was taken down, but returned in 2002 after enough income came in to prevent google crashes.

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Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour took Metal and Rap to the top in 1998 featuring Metal Grunge band Korn, Rap Rock band Limp Bizkit, Nu Metal band Coal Chamber, another Hip Hop Rock group, Rage Against the Machine, and with their absence on the last day was replaced by rapper Ice Cube, and late 90s alternative metal band, Incubus, and brand new 90s metal band, System of a Down. The Moshpits drove the police to work as 19 people died in the moshpits during the whole show.

Warner Bros suggested they take Red Hot Chili Peppers on tour with them, after denying the offer, Warner Bros wasn't pleased, they then lost money because none of their bands where in the huge USA tour in 1998, Warner retaliated with fans after the tour was over in August of 1998, after the war between Dr Seuss and Warner Bros, Dr Seuss stated that Warner Bros where being entitled brats, but then made a deal, Dr Seuss stated that Static X will be in Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour 1999, and they would record Dr Seuss's Moshpit 1998's album on Roadrunner Records, making Warner Bros even more mad to make matters worse. Children 2005 1999, the height of Nu Metal and Rap, Dr Seuss's Moshpit sold out on all concert dates. It started on March 20, 1999, the beginning of Spring, in New York City. Dr Seuss had a feud with Sepultura, on joining the tour causing the formation of Soulfly, and Soulfly joining in on the Moshfest in 1999 playing tracks from their album, Soulfly, Being a hit to the crowd. Dr Seuss made a record deal with Roadrunner Records to record his Dr Seuss's Mospit Tour albums, They have so far recorded Dr Seuss Moshpit Tour 1998, Released on September 4th, 1998, and Dr Seuss's Moshpit 1999, Released on June 28th, 1999, Making Warner Bros unpleased.

In Chicago in 1999 when Dr Seuss preformed a rap skit, it immediately turned into a Nu Metal skit when he got the idea to do a death wall, everybody got on one side and when the song chorus starts, everyone runs at each other, after this happened, Dr Seuss immediately stopped preforming, Jumped off the stage, and joined in on the moshing

Warner Bros finally got their share on the death wall Static-X somehow created, during the song Push It, the crowd knew what to do, this was one of the biggest moshpits, resolving in 21 deaths, that Warner Bros would have to pay.

DFPF is a one-day music festival that takes place all throughout the U.S. It was created in 2010 by Dr Seuss to claim income on his falling festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. Once the tour shut down for good in 2009, DFPF was created to create more income after losing money when his tour shut down for various reasons. It was originally created in 2000 under the name of NuFest, being a nu metal festival, NuFest only lasted one year the reason being not enough income through the years.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

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In 2002, a violent fight allegedly broke out in the mosh pit at the Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour in Atlanta, Georgia while Deftones were performing, resulting in the death of 3-year-old Ricky on August 1, 2006. Lawyers representing Mr. Ricky's family said they may pursue civil actions against Dr Seuss and the show's promoters.

Ricky's mother, (we forgot her name), said "It's not right that someone could go to a concert for a good time and wind up dead. There needs to be more security or they need to not have these concerts at all", in a statement to Fox News Service made on August 1, 2002, of course Dr Seuss didn't listen. One week later, 5-year-old Mickey the Mouse was arrested and charged with Ricky's murder. Witnesses claim Mickey punched Richardson, causing his head to hit the concrete floor, an injury that ultimately proved to be fatal. Dr Seuss won the case using all of his fans to murder all witnesses and the judge.

This was time traveled and placed here from the 2002 killing of ricky.

Dickfart Inc.[edit]

Dickfart Incorporated is a multi-millionaire company that produces electronics, distributes music, owns it's own online store, has it's own internet browser, and is a record label. Dickfart Inc. was founded by Dr Seuss in February of 1996, it was created to make income off the brand new online money makers. It started as a warehouse and an online store in April of 1996, but in October of 1996, the warehouse was torn down due to intoxicating gas spreading the area for reasons that where never displayed. Since then it was a hommade project and raised enough money to start some other brands. In 1997 Dickfart became an internet browser, which was eventually taken over by Google in 1999 and was taken down, but returned in 2002 after enough income came in to prevent google crashes.

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UDF's first ever musical festival was at Woodstock 99. UDF played on Saturday, July 24, 1999, UDF played before Metallica, and after Limp Bizkit, who warmed up the crowd for UDF, the moshpit killed 16 people during UDF, and Dr Seuss was sued by multiple karens, that where the moms of the people that died during their concert. UDF created a death wall at Woodstock that took several lives, and people where moshpitting in poop, so it was a lose lose for the fans, but somehow UDF still has a fanbase of over 10 Million

Ja Rule, Run DMC, Mobb Deep also appeared on the Tour (in place of DMX, who canceled prior to the beginning of the tour). Korn made surprise appearances at a handful of dates. Sevendust filled in for Filter on the Denver date while Filter took time off to film the video for "Take A Picture". System of a Down were originally on the line-up but canceled their appearance due to a feud with Limp Bizkit. The Minneapolis date was the only that featured both Primus and Korn.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

In 2001, UDF was invited to join The Family Values Tour. Korn's Johnathan Davis shot Dr Seuss and Gray Widzinski an email in January of 2001, UDF accepted the offer because it would make them more money, so they could finally pay off the bills because they where low on cash in 2001, the reason being Dr Seuss spent tons of money on a weird haircut

They Met at the first Tour Date in Cleveland Ohio, they where paid royalties and played after Staind on every show. UDF got paid even more when they helped record the Family Values Tour 2001 album, and recorded it on their record label, Somali Fish records, and the album went platinum.

In 2002 UDF was in Dr Seuss's hommade music festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. The Tour in 2002 was almost shut down due to Dr Seuss not paying the following bands, Static X, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Nothingface. They then sued him for royalties, but Dr Seuss knew how to get out of this. Him and Gray Widzinski faked a coma, and that happened to get him out of paying for the bands royalties, so they just had to live with that and thats life so yeah he go them out of paying

In 2003 nothing much happened just a bunch of bands played, no deaths happened in the moshpit no interesting things in the crowd, it was just music and the crowd just stood there listening to it. Dr Seuss in 2003 wit dat other weird haircut UDF's first ever musical festival was at Woodstock 99. UDF played on Saturday, July 24, 1999, UDF played before Metallica, and after Limp Bizkit, who warmed up the crowd for UDF, the moshpit killed 16 people during UDF, and Dr Seuss was sued by multiple karens, that where the moms of the people that died during their concert. UDF created a death wall at Woodstock that took several lives, and people where moshpitting in poop, so it was a lose lose for the fans, but somehow UDF still has a fanbase of over 10 Million

Ja Rule, Run DMC, Mobb Deep also appeared on the Tour (in place of DMX, who canceled prior to the beginning of the tour). Korn made surprise appearances at a handful of dates. Sevendust filled in for Filter on the Denver date while Filter took time off to film the video for "Take A Picture". System of a Down were originally on the line-up but canceled their appearance due to a feud with Limp Bizkit. The Minneapolis date was the only that featured both Primus and Korn.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

In 2001, UDF was invited to join The Family Values Tour. Korn's Johnathan Davis shot Dr Seuss and Gray Widzinski an email in January of 2001, UDF accepted the offer because it would make them more money, so they could finally pay off the bills because they where low on cash in 2001, the reason being Dr Seuss spent tons of money on a weird haircut

They Met at the first Tour Date in Cleveland Ohio, they where paid royalties and played after Staind on every show. UDF got paid even more when they helped record the Family Values Tour 2001 album, and recorded it on their record label, Somali Fish records, and the album went platinum.

In 2002 UDF was in Dr Seuss's hommade music festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. The Tour in 2002 was almost shut down due to Dr Seuss not paying the following bands, Static X, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Nothingface. They then sued him for royalties, but Dr Seuss knew how to get out of this. Him and Gray Widzinski faked a coma, and that happened to get him out of paying for the bands royalties, so they just had to live with that and thats life so yeah he go them out of paying

In 2003 nothing much happened just a bunch of bands played, no deaths happened in the moshpit no interesting things in the crowd, it was just music and the crowd just stood there listening to it.

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UDF's first ever musical festival was at Woodstock 99. UDF played on Saturday, July 24, 1999, UDF played before Metallica, and after Limp Bizkit, who warmed up the crowd for UDF, the moshpit killed 16 people during UDF, and Dr Seuss was sued by multiple karens, that where the moms of the people that died during their concert. UDF created a death wall at Woodstock that took several lives, and people where moshpitting in poop, so it was a lose lose for the fans, but somehow UDF still has a fanbase of over 10 Million

Ja Rule, Run DMC, Mobb Deep also appeared on the Tour (in place of DMX, who canceled prior to the beginning of the tour). Korn made surprise appearances at a handful of dates. Sevendust filled in for Filter on the Denver date while Filter took time off to film the video for "Take A Picture". System of a Down were originally on the line-up but canceled their appearance due to a feud with Limp Bizkit. The Minneapolis date was the only that featured both Primus and Korn.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

In 2001, UDF was invited to join The Family Values Tour. Korn's Johnathan Davis shot Dr Seuss and Gray Widzinski an email in January of 2001, UDF accepted the offer because it would make them more money, so they could finally pay off the bills because they where low on cash in 2001, the reason being Dr Seuss spent tons of money on a weird haircut

They Met at the first Tour Date in Cleveland Ohio, they where paid royalties and played after Staind on every show. UDF got paid even more when they helped record the Family Values Tour 2001 album, and recorded it on their record label, Somali Fish records, and the album went platinum.

In 2002 UDF was in Dr Seuss's hommade music festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. The Tour in 2002 was almost shut down due to Dr Seuss not paying the following bands, Static X, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Nothingface. They then sued him for royalties, but Dr Seuss knew how to get out of this. Him and Gray Widzinski faked a coma, and that happened to get him out of paying for the bands royalties, so they just had to live with that and thats life so yeah he go them out of paying

In 2003 nothing much happened just a bunch of bands played, no deaths happened in the moshpit no interesting things in the crowd, it was just music and the crowd just stood there listening to it. Dr Seuss in 2003 wit dat other weird haircut UDF's first ever musical festival was at Woodstock 99. UDF played on Saturday, July 24, 1999, UDF played before Metallica, and after Limp Bizkit, who warmed up the crowd for UDF, the moshpit killed 16 people during UDF, and Dr Seuss was sued by multiple karens, that where the moms of the people that died during their concert. UDF created a death wall at Woodstock that took several lives, and people where moshpitting in poop, so it was a lose lose for the fans, but somehow UDF still has a fanbase of over 10 Million

Ja Rule, Run DMC, Mobb Deep also appeared on the Tour (in place of DMX, who canceled prior to the beginning of the tour). Korn made surprise appearances at a handful of dates. Sevendust filled in for Filter on the Denver date while Filter took time off to film the video for "Take A Picture". System of a Down were originally on the line-up but canceled their appearance due to a feud with Limp Bizkit. The Minneapolis date was the only that featured both Primus and Korn.

NuFest 2000 was the early version of Dickfart Pit Festival, NuFest 2000 was a Nu Metal Music Festival created by none other than Dr Seuss. After Dr Seuss created Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour, he wanted to create a festival just for music that was relevant at the time, Nu Metal, so he created NuFest in 2000, that happened to be the only NuFest ever held, after Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour came crashing down in 2009, Dr Seuss held NuFest under the name of Dickfart Pit Festival in 2010. It was held on October 31, 2000, at Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California, featuring Soulfly, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Coal Chamber, Slipknot, Unitedickfart, and Primer 55.

In 2001, UDF was invited to join The Family Values Tour. Korn's Johnathan Davis shot Dr Seuss and Gray Widzinski an email in January of 2001, UDF accepted the offer because it would make them more money, so they could finally pay off the bills because they where low on cash in 2001, the reason being Dr Seuss spent tons of money on a weird haircut

They Met at the first Tour Date in Cleveland Ohio, they where paid royalties and played after Staind on every show. UDF got paid even more when they helped record the Family Values Tour 2001 album, and recorded it on their record label, Somali Fish records, and the album went platinum.

In 2002 UDF was in Dr Seuss's hommade music festival tour, Dr Seuss's Moshpit Tour. The Tour in 2002 was almost shut down due to Dr Seuss not paying the following bands, Static X, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Nothingface. They then sued him for royalties, but Dr Seuss knew how to get out of this. Him and Gray Widzinski faked a coma, and that happened to get him out of paying for the bands royalties, so they just had to live with that and thats life so yeah he go them out of paying

In 2003 nothing much happened just a bunch of bands played, no deaths happened in the moshpit no interesting things in the crowd, it was just music and the crowd just stood there listening to it

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