Years after mostly transitioning away from his own blend of Hip Hop and Rock, Kid Rock recently spoke with The Guardian in promotion of his upcoming tenth album First Kiss, due out this February.
Commenting on the genre-blend featured on his early hits like “Bawitdaba” and “Cowboy,” Rock admitted that the songs still go over well in concert but derided “Rap-Rock” as a whole.
“Rap-Rock was what people wanted at the time, and they still love those songs at shows,” he said. “But it turned into a lot of bullshit and it turned out to be pretty gay…If someone says you can’t say ‘gay’ like that you tell them to go fuck themselves. You’re not going to get anything politically correct out of me.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Rock opened up about his reluctance to use social media.
“I don’t FaceTweet or whatever people do,” he said.
He also addressed his performance at Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2008, despite his own right-wing politics.
“I am definitely a Republican on fiscal issues and the military, but I lean to the middle on social issues,” he said. “I am no fan of abortion, but it’s not up to a man to tell a woman what to do. As an ordained minister I don’t look forward to marrying gay people, but I’m not opposed to it.”
Speaking specifically about his appearance at Obama’s inauguration four years before he campaigned heavily for Mitt Romney in 2012, Rock said, “the country is more divided than ever.”
“I played Barack Obama’s inauguration even though I didn’t vote for him,” he said. “I didn’t agree with his policies, but there was an exciting sense of change in the air. That promise hasn’t been fulfilled.”
You gay kid
lil wayne aint get the memo
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Kid rock is a trifling clown.. saying rap rock is gay but he’s the king of it.. so basically he’s saying he’s “pretty gay”. Saying we won’t get anything politically correct out if him, but then has the stupidity and audacity of stating his political beliefs. Smmfh.. what a disgrace to America and humankind.
He’s saying it TURNED OUT GAY. It was great to begin with (there are still some good tracks), but nowadays artist are just rapping over rock beats because they sound nice, or some of the rock groups using rappers for filler are bad.
Look at Fall Out Boy and 2 Chainz. Turned out garbage.
all gay people “TURN OUT” gay fool… they may not have known it to begin with, butt it was cool back then. he said himself he is not opposed to “it”
like it or not kid is an OG to this hip-hop shit,
Kid Rock is a OG of sucking cock
so “Fuck soda” of you
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This Mitt Romney loving guy can go away for good. Why is he pretending to have any connection to hip hop? That’s absurd.
has more to do with the history of hip hop than Ty Dolla $ign.
do your googles fool, he was a hip-hop dj back before you was even a load in your mommas sweaty box
Whether you like Eminem or not you have to recognize he’s one of the biggest rappers ever and has left quite a mark on the industry (whether good or bad in your opinion). Eminem’s first appearance on a major label album was on Kid Rock’s Devil Without A Cause. I’m not saying Kid Rock got Eminem discovered but he obviously recognized talent in the bestselling rapper of all time before any other big artists did so I’m sure he’s pretty familiar with hip hop. SIDE NOTE: I bought Devil Without a Cause when it came out and obviously had no clue who Eminem was at the time and by the time Eminem came out I didn’t listen to Kid Rock’s album much anymore so a few years later I put the CD on and it blew my mind that Shady was on that track. I don’t know if anyone on here grabbed that CD and didn’t realize that shit but it still seems crazy to me
Haha. I love Kid Rock. He’s funny as fuck. I bought his rap rock album 14 years ago. I wouldn’t listen to that garbage now.
Nah. Chuck D sounds nice on a guitar track. Yall just don’t know how to rock it! NEcro & Ill Bill had some hard metal beats.
you are the sole reason why rappers complain about PA hiphop
i think kid rock hard cock is onto something here… gay folk have been looking for every back door into the deepest parts of the hip hop butthole for years. maybe rap rock is the only way they can penetrate the game?… at the least inch their way in?
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Rebirth was the best album of the last decade.
At least those ‘pretty gay’ songs helped to feed him and his family. I don’t expect anything better from a Republican, because like Rick Perry, they all have low IQs. Let us see how far is pretty straight songs will get him.
He hasn’t done rock / rap for a while and still sells records. He remade Sweet Home Alabama back in 2007 and the album went 3x Platinum.
I don’t think he’s struggling without the rock/rap stuff.
…and while I don’t agree with most republican policies, to say they ALL have a low IQ is…well, it’s pretty fucking dumb. That’s like saying all democrats are on welfare.
Not a big kid rock fan, but you have to give him credit for actually being a musician and not a “recording artist” or rapper
ANyone who doesnt like bawitdaba still can fuck off
Good ol’ sellout Kid Rock
With the exception of Rage Against the Machine he is absolutely correct.
Perhaps not for every one of their songs, but Beastie Boys and Linkin Park could be considered rock/rap.
Some of Linkin Park’s shit is not bad. Beastie Boys are legends.
…agreed though that RATM is dope.
this is what we need, people who aren’t afraid to speak their mind and who aren’t afraid not to be PC.
Rap-Rock fusions always came off as corny to me. Some things should just remain separate.
Damn. Being from the 313, I remember Kid Rock’s garbage azz since 90. This guy created trash ass wannabe hip hop with ICP for around 8 years. I’ll always remember this guy dropping Welcome 2 the Party or whatever around 98 in the D and that shit was the worst song in the history of rap. Then I heard that Bawitdaba and I am the Bullgod.. we all know the white people were going to go crazy as fuck for it. This is what Azaelia Banks and whoever the fuck else are talking about when they talk about appropriating black culture, raping it for what it’s worth, then shitting on it after you have made your cake.
lol
Loud Rocks is still the shit. Get up on it.
WOW!! I have peripherally noticed Kid Rock over the past 30 years or so….Thought he was a little interesting……didn’t pay to much attention to him……now know he is just a total and complete ASS!! WOW!!
Kid rock has never made “music” he wanted to make but “music” other people wanted him to make. He sold out before it was an economic decision. Dude pilfered hip hop culture, then southern culture, then rock culture. He is as fake as they come.