Corey Taylor doesn't give a fuck about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In a new interview with Audacy Check In, the Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman was talking about his new solo album, CMF2, when host Jason Bailey asked him which of his three projects — 'Knot, Stone Sour and his solo work — he'd like to see entered into the supposed arbiters of musical excellence.
Slipknot will be eligible for induction in 2024 (25 years after their first commercial release), but Taylor isn't even thinking about the possibility of being honored in those halls. "I've got better things to do," he said, frankly.
"At this point, who gives a shit really, to be honest," Taylor said of the Rock Hall. "It's hard for me to say that they get it wrong because sometimes the people they induct 100 percent deserve it. But there's still so many groups that should go in before some of the ones that have. And it really upsets me, dude.
"So at this point it's like, I don't even know if I'll be considered for something like that and I couldn't care less, to be honest. To me, that's a high-five at the end of your career, ya know? I would rather have that later on. It's just something I don't really concern myself with.
"Would I be a stingy hog and want to be like the late, great David Crosby and be in there like four times? That would be great – if I could be in there for all three [of my] acts, that'd be killer. But, I don't think I'm gonna even get in for one. So it's fine. I've got better things to do."
Well said. Watch Taylor's full interview below.
CMF2 is out September 15th and you can hear lead single "Beyond" here.
