Follow the Leader has a lot of sentimental value to me. I am not knowledgable enough about rock music to speak comfortably about the technical aspects of this album (but I do think it's really bad-ass that Jonathan Davis also plays the bagpipes on this album in addition to contributing lead vocals). However, I'll never forget buying this album at Media Play when I was young with my really good friend Ben. At the time, the "parental advisory" was stuck on the case, not printed on the pamphlet and so we found the only two Follow the Leader albums without stickers on them. And because I'm paranoid, I took a black magic marker and scribbled over the female nudity in the pamphlet. The album, of course, was at the forefront of a rap/rock hybrid movement alongside Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. And nothing against Rock's "Cowboy" song or Limp Bizkit's "N 2gether Now"- I really like them both, but taken as a whole album, Follow the Leader is my favorite album from that era with that sound.
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