KORN Singer Talks About Collaboration With Rapper NAS

KORN frontman Jonathan Davis has spoken to MTV.com about the group's collaboration with rapper Nas on the track "Play Me", which is featured on the band's sixth album, "Take A Look In The Mirror".

"I called [Nas] up and asked him if he wanted to be on the album," Davis said. "He said he was a fan of KORN and he'd love to do it."

"It's very heavy, it's not anything to do with hip-hop at all," Davis said. "And he's such a great lyricist that he has something to say. He's really deep, and it comes across well."

According to Davis, the album's first single, "Right Now", is a sneak peek into the follow-up to last year's "Untouchables", both musically and lyrically.

"It's more groove-oriented, not big open choruses, just powerful and aggressive," Davis explained. "It's about basically me waking up pissed off at the world, hating everyone and everything around me. I think everyone's had one of those days when you wake up and you don't want to talk to no one and you're just pissed. I had one of those days and I wrote about it. I was venting out all of my frustrations towards everyone."

"[This album] is about us as a band, taking a look in the mirror and remembering where we came from, remembering our roots, going back to basics," Davis said. "We reflect and look back why we really got into this band to begin with and why we started it. It's to make aggressive, heavy music. Over the years ... we were just experimenting. It always was KORN, but it was different spins on what we were doing. So this time we wanted to make an aggressive, heavy album and just kill it. And that's why we've produced it ourselves. Nobody knows KORN better than ourselves."

KORN's Back 2 Basics Tour with LIMP BIZKIT kicks off November 10 in Las Vegas. "Take A Look In The Mirror" is slated for release on November 25.