Rumor No.1 : Korn cancelled the Ozzfest because they had in fact delivered a hip hop album to the record company and they insisted Korn went back into the Studio to beef up the guitars and re-do the vocals. "That's a good one!"guffaws Jonathan. "Hell,no! i don't know where the hell that came from.I like those rumours.I had to do a lot of my vocals over because of the fact that i was singing with Steve and Steve just irritated the shit out of me." "When he sang vocals with Steve,tey were just there,there was non of Jonathan's emotion in it,"nods Munky. "I'd do a part and he'd go,`i think that's a little bit too exciting.'" "Yeah,he wanted you to calm down all the time!" "That pissed me off.That's when I'd had it,that day when he said that.You know what? e didn't get it.He had like Def Leppard vocals with triple choruses and stuff. That's fucking Def Leppard,man! Korn with like a Def Leppard vibe.....You know how Def Leppard always had these big layered choruses? Hell,no,man, he just had to go."

Rumour no 2 : Puma paid Jonathan half a million dollars to jump ship from Adidas and endorse their clothes instead. "Nope! No comment(laughs) We switched because with Adidas,who we did so much for,I had to buy all my sequin suits and stuf like that. They didn't pay for those." I thought you were meant to be designing stuf for them? "I was supposed to,but it never worked out,i had to buy all my shit.With Puma,I called them and said I need a pair of cheetah spotted shoes with black stripes and i got'em in two weeks. They'll make any shoe for me,they give us all our stuff free,they pay for all my custom suits and they're not sending their shit off to other bands,we're the only band they've done this with.Another thing,I keep looking in magazines and I see every fucking metal band in the world wearing my shit.It's time for a change." Yup,the world's fashion-conscious metallers are going to have to chuck their wardrobes out and stock up on some Puma from now on. "That's another way we're keeping one step ahead!" grins Munky. "When I started wearing Adidas,nobody in that scene was wearing that shit,it was a cool little underground company to me.And Puma's like that to me now," adds Jonathan. In these image-conscious,MTV sponsored days,is this sort of endorsement the way forward for bands? "I think it's changed for bands,cos companies are doing it now. Offer any musician free clothes and they'll go, `Hell,yeah!' It's not like a selling out issue,they're giving me clothes,I'm looking fresh and everybody's happy.It's fun,that's one of the fringe benefits of being in a band;getting free clothes,getting into clubs free..."