Limp Bizkit. I dont fucking care how much if a douche fred durst is, you simoly can't fuck with their chocolate starfish album. Linkin Park fucked it up when they did it. And korn's early rap rock shit is fucking certified gold. "Play Me" is probably one of the best examples of rap/rock done right. Just my thoughts, I didn't live through the era but my parents were huge into korn, limp bizkit, linkin park, etc. so I grew up listening to shit like that.

RATM are the most talented, most respectful to the genres, most complex, most important "rap/rock" group in our planet's history (maybe Uranus has a better one, too soon to tell). They are what got me into heavy music. Before them I listened to what my family listened to; an eclectic mix of rock, country, old school hip hip, et cetera. My mom and brothers got me into Too Short, Kurious, Guns N Roses, Garth Brooks, Aerosmith, Ice Cube, Portishead.. of course I found other music on my own (I was a loner), like Grateful Dead, Alanis Morisette, Blues Traveler... anyway like many of y'all, I was open to anything good, with human influences ranging from hillbillies to thugs to diehard metal heads. There's a good mix of folks in parts of NY. 

My brother was the first person around who got into Korn. They called him "The Korn Kid" even. He was more into them then me, but I finally saw them live last summer and it was phenomenal. They, IMO, balance the rap and metal almost as well as RATM. Albeit, differently. It rarely goes into hokey territory. Its such a fine line, and these bands deserve credit for trying.

I hate to admit it, but Limp has some classic tracks. But they can get embarrassing to me on occasion. They overstep that line at times.

I can't even think of any rap rock that I dig at all besides them. Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc, I never cared enough for to delve into.

Esham did that rock track, he's like "get cha head checked out!" In the chorus, I love that song.

I suppose Candiria is rap rock, and I dig their stuff. Its very seperate though, like their albums have straight rap or straight metal. Its jarring for an album but interesting.

Cypress Hill, whom I love, didn't succeed with their attempts at metal infusion, IMO. "Trouble" was good. Maybe I'll give the rock ones another listen.

Some author on Cracked (who has an eternal lust for Soundgarden, or perhaps only Chris Cornell), wrote a little diss calling Zack De La Rocha "a Communist Muppet" with an unflattering photo of him during his intense live performance. Fuck that author, may Zack smack him in the eye with his nine inch wang, as Phil Anselmo smacks the other with his own meatblood wand, just two inches shy of a dozen. RATM is the shit. Soundgarden is too, sure, but fuck you Cracked author! 

I smell generational gap all over what I'm about to say and dread the potential backlash it may cause, but I never got the appeal of Rage Against The Machine. Like, not even there big hits like sleep now in the fire or renegades of funk (those come to kind since our local rock station used to play the shit of them) and such really stand out to me as anything other than meh. And I tried getting into them for the longest, I just couldn't.

I smell generational gap all over what I'm about to say and dread the potential backlash it may cause, but I never got the appeal of Rage Against The Machine. Like, not even there big hits like sleep now in the fire or renegades of funk (those come to kind since our local rock station used to play the shit of them) and such really stand out to me as anything other than meh. And I tried getting into them for the longest, I just couldn't.

You may have a valid theory there. Things are just different now. Other than some SOAD, there haven't been many commercially successful political rockers after RATM. Buy their first album, the self titled one. Listen to it the whole way through. Then watch their videos of live performances. Better yet, buy their video that has all the music videos and live footage up to that point. 

Buy that video, play it loud. And if you don't like them better than you do today, I'll buy it off you. Word is bond.

I've watched concert footage, and have listened to their self entitled album front to back. My dad owns it. I still dont like ithem lol.

Slumerican502 said
RATM shits on audioslave, fuck cornell.

Rehab is the best example for me of blending rap/southern rock/country so well it almost defies genres.

I loved Kid Rocks shit up until 'cocky' came out. He has some really dope shit out there, especially on DWAC and History of Rock.

 Corey Taylor could put out a rap/rock album if he wanted, just check out 'spit it out'

Sublime never rapped but they basically created a sub-genre by mixing reggae/hardcore punk/ and hip hop sampling all infused.

 

It can be done but its hard to do without sounding hokey as omd puts it

You know where I stand with the Rehab, dawg. 

Corey Taylor has hype shit.. "where's Chuck D when ya need him?".. SPpit It Out was our shit back in the day. That first album by Slipknot,  and SOAD's + DXM + THC = Indescribable memories.

Great use of RATM tracks in films:

Wake Up - The Matrix

Take the Power Back and Bombtrack- Natural Born Killers

Maggie's Farm - The Other Guys

Year of the Boomerang - Higher Learning

And that No Shelter track off of that wretched Godzilla soundtrack.

Judgement Night soundtrack was mostly great. "just another victim kid!"

Ratm and LP are definitely first to come to mind when I think rap/rock. Bein black and liking rock I also got giddy when I saw Jonathan Davis wearing a platinum diamond grill.

Lol JD is like a lovable yet neglected teddy bear. 

Great rap rock fusion: "African Child" by Aldous Snow 

I'd hardly qualify Esham too, He only had like a few rock/rap songs on that album.

Crib Death was dope though.