Devil Without A Cause

Didn’t mind it and was all set for giving it 3 stars until the last track, which is absolutely vile and puts a different light on the rest of the album

Upchuck the Boogie, Baby!

Loved it

I love Kid Rock and I am not sorry.

Tried to listen without letting who he's become over the last 20 years color my opinion too much, because this was a favorite of mine back when it was released. Raw and real, it mostly holds up well all these years later in a way that basically none of his more recent music has been able to.

The kid sure does rock.

I knew this one.

DEVIL W/OUT A CAUSE is never boring, it's is well produced, better than I remember. Heard many of these tracks that were edited for FCC - radio edits airplay. Found my self relistening 'cause I neede all the F-bombs, KidRock is therapy and a great American!

Great album. Kid Rock at his best. A long stretch from Devil Without a Cause to DJT.

Hrozna prdel, numetal tyvole!

Honestly, great album. You really can feel Rock’s Detroit roots and musical influence on this album. Reluctantly I give the rating I am due to how much of a child he is outside of music.

Classic, great album

I really wanted to hate this album but just couldn't do it. It struck a good balance of enjoyable hip Hop and solid Rock. The lyrics are absolute cringe. The tracks are all pretty similar in theme and tone, mostly painting kid Rock as a rock and roll gangster badass. Each track was unique enough to stand out. Very few misses.

I forgot how good this album was. Hit after hit and super high energy.

Kid Rock sucks, but the music actually slaps a decent amount.

Fuck yeah.

BAWITDABADABANGDABANGDIGGYDIGGY

10/10…nu-rap metal

Wasnt expecting to like this as much as i did but i enjoyed it the whole way through. Grooves were cool and kinda rage-esque. Where u at groove was sick. The lyrics were outrageous and hilarious.

I loved this. I do not agree with his politics. Devil without a cause is incredible. So is the opener.

My washmachine stopped working

One of my old favorites

Before listening to this album I was familiar with Kid Rock only through two things. First, the song "All Summer Long", which is undoubtedly not as good as "Sweet Home Alabama", from which it is inspired. Second, that he often catches strays in random reddit comments, which gives me the impression that he's considered deeply uncool by a certain type of American. So based on that I was expecting this to be mediocre at best, but it's quite a fun album really. The guitar riffs are pretty cool, the rapping seems good to me (though I'm no hop-hop/rap aficionado). If there's one thing weird about this album, it's the persona Kid Rock assumes, of a sort of southern redneck/inner city gangsta hybrid. Being that he's both white and from Detroit, it's seems to be kind out of nowhere. But plenty of singers play a character, and it seems to me that people decide more or less at random whether to find that cringy or not.

An album that would most accurately be described as a guilty pleasure. A lot of the songs are pretty bad to unbareable,, However, there are some songs that go hard and I will definitely come back to. Highlights: 1, 3, 4, and 6.

Stupid yet fun

I think the most infuriating thing about this album is how okay it is. Going into this I was expecting, given who he is and the reputation he's accrued, something awful. But no, this is just typical rap rock. It has a couple pretty solid riffs and all the corniness and terrible lyricism I love in a group like Limp Bizkit, but unlike Fred Durst, Kid Rock says the n-word. He even managed to get an Eminem feature, it's just really weird. I hate that this album is on here, and I hate that I didn't really hate it.

Devil Without a Cause Big ‘You wouldn’t know all the girls I’ve had sex with, they go to a different school.’ vibes with this. This is currently the 4th worst ranked album on the list, and I’m trying not to let that fact colour my judgement (although if it did it would be a poo-brown colour). It’s not necessarily that he’s a poor rapper, which is undoubtedly true, or that this album is pretty bad, which it definitely is, it’s more that the whole thing is just a bit lame and embarrassing, giving off divorced dad in the garage energy, spending all his redundancy money on his rapping. Having said that, some elements of it as dumb party music aren’t actually that bad, on Cowboy the harmonica and initial groove are fine. Roving Gangster isn’t actually that bad compared to a lot of contemporaneous metal, Wasting Time isn’t necessarily that far from Give Out But Don’t Give Out era Primal Scream and Only God Knows Why is a comparable to most modern country. But the problem is that as soon as he opens his mouth on each song it descends quite rapidly, through terrible lyrics, terrible vocals or terrible autotune (or all 3). But in between that it's pretty uniformly bad. Bawitdaba, I Am the Bullgod, Somebody’s Gotta Feel This, Fists of Rage and Fuck Off in particular, full of empty posturing and embarrassing lyrics. I didn’t really want to listen twice, as I wasn’t keen on him getting another 14 pence from me in streaming royalties, so I skipped through each track a few times, in case I missed something. But I don’t think I did. It’s definitely a bad album, but I don’t think it's as execrable as other albums we’ve had so I’m not sure it's a 1. I’m not sure what I mean but maybe its stupidity is it’s saving grace, it at least isn’t as interminably self important as say Slipknot, so I think it just, _just_ scrapes a 2. But I wouldn’t be sad if I gave it a 1. 🤠🤠 Playlist submission: Cowboy

This album is basically 71 minutes of Kid Rock talking about how good and badass he is.....badass? Okay, so musically, I actually dig 'Devil Without a Cause.' Aggro rap-rock riffs with a metallic edge, with DJ/funk influences infused within? Sign me up! Unfortunately, Kid Rock ruins it with garbage, egotisitcal lyrics about how much of a pimp/gangster/hick/player (take your pick) he is. It gets old very quickly for people (like myself) who are more serious about music, although I can respect the casual listener may appreciate it more. It just sucks that Kid Rock is so annoying to listen to because his backing band, Twisted Brown Trucker, sound excellent! Honestly, if they had someone other than Kid Rock fronting them, someone you could take more seriously, I'd dig it immensely. They're almost as good musically as Rage Against the Machine, but they're let down by the self-obsessed jerk up front. If Kid Rock wasn't fronting this band, I'd rate this album a lot higher, but his ego ruins it for me, as much as I can respect the fact he attained some level of marketability, but was that him or his management? Best songs: Bawitdaba's okay I guess, and F*** Off is only worth it because Eminem, an actually competent and unpretentious white rapper, is there

Vypočul som si to. A stačilo mi to raz.

He can’t really sing, he tries to be tough but his lyrics aren’t really meaningful. Some of the actual music is okay, but overall it just sounds like some dude with a jacked-up truck trying to hide his shortcomings.

Two questions: Do we separate the art from the artist? Does it even matter with this album? Buckle up, here we go... I grew up listening to Kid Rock. I remember being a nine year old shouting "I like AC/DC to ZZ Top" with my friend. It's hard for me to fight the nostalgia aspect of this album. Then, it's time to come to the realization of who Kid Rock is as a person. He's a right-wing fascist loon who is squarely in the United States Of America MAGA cult. All I had to do was listen to the lyrics of this album as a kid to realize who he's been, but ignorance is bliss. Now, for the shocker: I actually found half of the songs on this album at least...fun to listen to. Catchy. I know he's a piece of shit, and he has apprehensible lyrics, but nobody can deny a catchy beat. Basically, the nostalgia, and musical side of my brain is fighting the moral part of my brain(hence, my rating). Favorite Track: "Bawitdaba".

When discussing art, I don't usually care about the political views of the artists as it is largely irrelevant to the quality of their work. Like, conservative comedians are bad at comedy not because of their views but because they lack the sharp, absorbing mind comedy requires, which is also the reason they arrived at these views in the first place. But everything has its limits. And for someone as outspokenly terrible as Kid Rock, there's no excuse. My judgment for the music of this racist bitch, who’s raging for the machine directly through his work, is always going to be clouded the same way it is, for example, for Kanye's music or Mold Lady's writing. My morals would simply not allow me to stop thinking about the vile shit they have said and done. But at the same time, I also don't feel bad for potentially misrepresenting them, so I guess that doesn't really matter since Kid Rock and his ilk don't deserve any sympathy in the first place. That all being said, this album is... not terrible. Despite the fact that there isn't a single song I would consider good, there's a surprising amount of decent riffs, and the lyrics, although cringey, are mostly not obnoxious. The biggest crime this album is committing (besides being made by Kid Rock) is that it's just forgettable. Outside of the chorus of the opening track, everything else is pretty bland and monotonous (I don't think the flow changes a single time)... but not awful. This was before "owning the libs" became Kid Rock's entire personality, but all the lyrics here are the same basic edgy, boastful stuff about how "cool" he supposedly is, how much he supposedly parties, and how many women he supposedly fucks. I mean, this is the same guy who started a boycott of a beer company because the art on the can was forcing him to look at a woman, so take out of it what you will. Funnily enough, Eminem, who also failed to grow out of the same era of "dark" and "offensive" lyrics, is also on this album (not that his contribution is significant). He's probably the poster child of that style of writing, but unlike Kid Rock, Eminem could sort of write and definitely could rap, and seems to be a decent person (citation needed). Yeah, I was expecting a lot worse. Devil Without a Cause is not unlistenable and even has its moments, but it's very basic, occasionally cringey, and a bit too long. 5/10

Sounds like trailer trash Beck. Wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but I didn't make it through the last few tracks.

this this sucks i thought kid rock was a Billy Ray Cyrus type so i was looking forward to some corny but catchy country

Fuck this dude. Calling him a dollar store Eminem would be an insult both to Eminem and to dollar stores. I'm listening to this album at work, and I have to put my headphones in so that no one thinks that I'm doing so on purpose. The funny thing is that I could return to this album with a bit of ironic enjoyment under different circumstances. His rhymes are passable (at least for a white dude). The music is good enough. He wrote some fun songs. Then he decided that everyone needed to hear his fucking political opinions. Being this generation's Ted Nugent is nothing to brag about, Kid, and neither is your career trajectory. What surprised me most about this is that essentially every song I know by Kid Rock is on this album. Dude fell off HARD after this, although you have to give him credit for using up every last bit of his talent on this album. However, the quality of this album is far from enough to justify me having to watch a video of him shooting a bunch of cases of bud light with an AR to illustrate how much he hates trans women. I don't need to know what Kid Rock is up to. I deserve to know about what happened to Rednex after their hit Cotton Eye Joe (I paused this album to listen to Cotton Eye Joe, and I might just leave this song on repeat and pretend it's the rest of the kid rock album. It's a much more pleasant experience) Edit: I take back what I said about this album being okay. Once you get a few songs it, it turns to garbage. He used up all of his good lines on the first couple of songs 2/5 Somehow still not as bad as that Limp Bizkit album that also inexplicably made it on this list.

How was this simultaneously better and worse than I expected? I had a LOT of thoughts going through my head before listening to this album because I checked the global stats and saw this one had some...pretty low reviews. I'm a fan of rock, not so much a fan of country (save for a few albums or artists, namely modern Americana/folk or even roots music) or rap (except maybe Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and the rap-rock stylings of Linkin Park). I do admit I tend to vibe to the samples used in rap, though - lots of unique choices everywhere that can work really well. Combining all three of the above genres, though? It has mixed results. Often times I didn't enjoy the licks/riffs/little musical throwaway bars, like the honky-tonk piano sounding bit around 2:25 of Cowboy. For me, it straddled the line between pleasantly unexpected and overly gimmicky. More often, I didn't think the lyrics were relatable, substantive, or genuine (for someone like Kid Rock). I'm the furthest thing from his intended demographic, as an Asian-American female who is pretty close to being straight-edge and probably considered a prude. But I do still really hate when artists try to sound tougher than they actually are. I did give this album as much of a chance as I could, considering that I don't enjoy Kid Rock's music regularly (for the record - I only have his song "Picture" with Sheryl in my library), and I seriously do not like him as a person. So far, and I'm almost 600 albums through this album generator, I have listened to every album all the way through (although sometimes in 2-3 listening sessions if the album is longer). And so I did that for this album as well. I will admit the musical production and composition were decently pretty solid, other than some of the transitions that could have been cleaned up a bit better, or some little sections that could be removed. I can maybe see myself listening to a version of this album that was just instrumentals if I were doing some repetitive work or studying. But I don't think Kid Rock's vocals are nice, and the lyrics are worse. So...2 stars because it was listenable, even earworm-y at times. The music carried him more than he carried it. Top Tracks (aka the songs that made it to my library!): Bawitdaba (it was honestly catchy), I Am the Bullgod (I can't place my finger on why the guitar works for me but it just does), Wasting Time (don't care for the rapping at this point but I can see myself listening to this at a BBQ and not hating it because the ~ambiance~ just fits and that hook is smooth and inoffensive), Fist of Rage (would listen to while playing an FPS game) Worst Tracks: Only God Knows Why (Does God know why the vocals were processed like this? It ruined the song for me, which might have been fine otherwise, albeit annoyingly preachy and fake in an entirely non-Kid Rock kinda way) & Black Chick, White Guy / I Am the Bullgod (yeah maybe I AM a snowflake because this made me uncomfortable)

When I was a tweenager I was really into 3 of these songs. They were "Bawitaba" "Cowboy" and "Only God Knows Why." I am fairly certain I listened to the whole album at the time too, but was uninterested in all of the other tracks - that is still true, and the sheer length of this album makes it all the more excruciating. Honestly I can hear how the first two songs I mentioned influenced my taste in those formative years. The riffs in Bawitaba still sound pretty good to me, but the lyrics are trash, and as this sound repeats over the course of the album it sounds like a pale imitation of Rage Against the Machine, without the innovative guitar work and actual purpose. What I still like about Cowboy (when I ignore the lyrics) is that it truly does combine country, rap and rock in a way that is convincing and enjoyable. The changes in the song make it a fun musical journey. In the end, "Only God Knows Why" is the one that I can most enjoy still. The use of autotune is actually pretty interesting, and the more introspective lyrics are a welcome respite after the continuous flogging in all the other tracks. "Black Chick / White Guy" is almost unbearable, as if it's one last attempt to test your patience if by some miracle you haven't yet given up. In summary, a terrible album with a few songs that I have memories with but no longer hold up.

The lyrical content is complete garbage in my opinion. Feels like something that was written by a person who wants to be cool, but is not. Dre and other artists that have a pretty rough and degrading lyrics at least give me the impression of having some self-distance and doing it in an ironic way, but didn't find any of that here. Every fiber of me wants to give this a 1 star, but if you put the lyrics aside some songs were actually pretty catchy, so it gets a 2 for me. Won't return to this album though for sure.

I have never listened to anything that has made me so completely sure that the person responsible for it is a total c**t. It's like the Beastie Boys, mixed with the worst of early 90's rap/hiphop, with any charm or nuance stripped out. Lyrics are a mixture of generic self-promotion that regularly turns into breathtakingly unself-aware arrogance, and lazy misogyny.  But, there are bits of it that are quite catchy  Nearly burst out laughing with Only God Knows Why (a self-pitying song lamenting how people don't understand him and like him) after ten songs of this, and then immediately followed by a song titled 'Fuck Off'  Pretty much every song is at least a minute too long (and there is a line in one of the songs where h talks about the producers telling him this and him ignoring them). 2/5, because it was quite entertaining in places.

It's not hard to see why Kid Rock was such a cultural force during the late 90s/early 2000s. There's a ton of charisma on this record, mixed with Kid Rock's "redneck pimp" character. There's a large swath of genres blended here, though country and country rock blends with metal and rap more often than not. Kid Rock is fine enough on the mic, though he is absolutely blown out of the water by the best white MC to ever grace the game on "Fuck Off". It's more a time capsule than anything: where I appreciate that it's here in order to tell the story of nu-metal in the late 90s, I think there are better examples of the genre. Also, how the fuck does Holland-Dozier-Holland have a writing credit on this record? Did they come up with the "blow bubbles up your asshole" line, or the "your girl is sucking my cock while I'm taping it" one? Favorite tracks: "Cowboy", "Bawitdaba", "Wastin' Time"

Despite all the hate Kid Rock and this album get, his debut is by far his strongest effort, as well as being the 10th best selling rock album of the 90s. If this was an EP of just the first 4 tracks and maybe a couple others, I would award him a 3 or maybe even a 4. I'm not here to criticize the trashy culture and lies he proclaims (like bragging about growing up in Detroit). Purely looking at the music, the production is funky and tight. The first 4 tracks are pretty good (ignore that cringy child voice), but the rest mostly sucks with just a few decent parts. The riffs are uninspired: it's an embarrassment of a rock album. The raps lack substance and are repetitive, but at least he has energy and has nice rhythm here and there. He tries to sound like Zack de la Rocha, but he's too repetitive to be anything beyond that. I like the old school hip hop half of "Wecome 2 the Party," but fuck the bro who requests "that fuckin 1998 Kid Rock shit." His country songs are the worst. I can't believe "Only God Knows Why" was a big hit... the autotune and dull melody hurt my ears. "Where U at Rock" is the only good song in the second half. "Black Guy White Guy" is a bit decent but it's three times longer than it needs to, and did we really need a copy & paste of "I am the Bullgod"? It's the best song on the album but I didn't notice much different. He loses points for lack of originality, a repeated formula in most of the songs, and for being way too long. Cut the album in half. On the plus side, it is focused and has nice production. This is actually on the borderline of 1 star / 2 star review, but those first 4 songs are enough to redeem itself.

i do not care for this man

Minus 5 stars. Hope I never hear this again

I only gave Rage Against Machine three stars, so I was never going to be won over by their non-union MAGA equivalent.

Boo

the only thing worse than a talented musician who talks about fucking underage girls is an untalented musician who talks about fucking underage girls

Trash. Fuck this MAGA asshole. Did not finish listening much beyond the title track.

This is one of those albums that feels trapped inside the exact cultural moment that created it. Mashing together rap-rock, Southern rock, metal, and frat-party swagger into something that became enormously popular for a brief stretch of late-90s radio. Listening to it now, though, it comes across less like a classic album and more like a loud time capsule from the era of monster energy aesthetics, MTV excess, and post-grunge identity crises. The biggest problem is that the album mistakes obnoxiousness for charisma. Nearly every track leans heavily on juvenile rebellion, repetitive macho posturing, and crude humor that quickly wears thin. Songs like “Bawitdaba” aim for explosive energy but end up sounding exhausting and cartoonish, while the slower tracks rarely offer enough depth to balance the album’s relentless self-satisfaction. Kid Rock clearly wanted to embody an outlaw image, but much of the record feels performative rather than authentic. What makes the album historically interesting is also what prevents it from feeling timeless. It represents a very specific late-90s blend of rap-rock bravado and commercialized rebellion that dominated mainstream music for a few years before aging poorly. Unlike albums that transcend their era, this feels inseparable from it, and once that moment passed, much of the music lost its impact.

Are you fucking kidding me. Valjda je to dons, on my sick day, morm še poslušat the shittiest shit. Fuck me. (71 minut?! There is no god.) Dafak naj bi pomenil naslov prvega komada ("Bawitdaba")?! Repetitive abomination. O đizs fakin krajst ("Cowboy"). Ker untalented rapanje. K nek fever dream. (Prou preverila sm, če mam vročino.) A so med "Roving Gangster (Rollin')" kao zvoki, kako potegne črtico kokaina? Classy. Bom kr citirala en drug dobr review: "This is music that absolutely no one needed. At best, it's someone trying, and not succeeding at genre fusion, at the worst, it's a cynical ploy to sell records to white people who think they're hard." Po pa kr naenkrat k da je čist drug album? Shitty balada, v celoti auto tunan. "Only God Knows Why", indeed. Sam itak smo že establishal, da ne obstaja.

Very much the dictionary definition of hating both the player and the game.

Fuck off

Kid Rock is a fake ass poser who makes music for dumbasses.

Ey, Tití me preguntó si tengo mucha' novia' Mucha' novia' Hoy tengo a una, mañana otra, ey Pero no hay boda Tití me preguntó si tengo mucha' novia' Mucha' novia' Hoy tengo a una, mañana otra Me las vo'a llevar a toa' pa un VIP, un VIP Ey, saluden a Tití Vamo a tirarno un selfie, say "cheese", ey Que sonrían las que ya les metí

I‘m not listening to a fascist musician, thank you very much

I knew this day was going to come. I will contribute to the cause of making this the worst rated album. Fuck this guy. The fact that this is rated higher than Einsturzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle is awful. Come on people!

This guy looks a lot like TPUSA sweetheart country legend Robert Ritchie

Rednick pimps just ain’t my schtick. I can acknowledge how it influenced other music I don’t enjoy, but the forerunner of crap isn’t gold in this instance.

Is there a score less than 1 star

Is it possible to rate zero?

Absolute shit

A piece of shit human, making absolutely atrocious music. I'd give this 2* except for the first bit. Fuck Kid Rock. Nobody goes from singing about fucking kids to pretending to be a self-righteous Cristian for any reason other than greed. What an asshole. Did I mention his music sucks ass too?

Will absolutely not be listening to this. I will listen to a Bad Bunny album instead

Wish i could give zero stars

545/1001 🌗🌑🌑🌑🌑 Es lo que tiene ser un racista y fascista de mierda, que todo lo que hagas siempre será una mierda....

White guy very poorly rapping, I don't miss this 1998 trend. And fast forward 25 years, now he's an absolute boot licker. No surprise here. I feel dumber for having had to listen to this.

I'm not listening to this racist.

I didn’t get to see My Bloody Valentine live this week due to it being on a school night in London. This is a shame as they are responsible for one of my favourite albums of all time. My greatest regret, though, is that from seeing a band known for their legendary volume, I could have had some of the frequencies that combine to make this monstrosity removed by short term hearing damage. Offensive to at least two senses (the cover takes care of sight) and I am not ruling out the other three. Every time you thought it had hit a new low, it managed to find a way to, somehow, get worse… There are fourteen tracks on the album; thirteen of which are the same song, with the only variety provided by who it is offensive to, and the other which is a ballad with a vocoder. Which is offensive to everyone. Some might question its place on this list but it definitely meets the criteria of an ‘album to listen to before you die’. By listening to this, everyone other piece of music shines a little bit brighter, because it may be bad but not this bad. To this end, the next album this list throws at me is automatically getting five stars as it will be a work of art in comparison to this.

I listened to this from front to back, and honestly tried to keep and open mind but it is SO shit. From the chant in the first song, to the faux country influences peppered through the remainder, the constant braggadocius lyrics that sounds like he’s trying to be Zach de la Rocha but just comes across as Florida man doing karaoke, poorly aged nu metal tropes it just ticks the boxes of the worst excesses of music. If I could rate it a zero I would.

Ø☆

So that's how you spell bawitadaba. It's like he rhymed every monosyllabic word so he had to make up another word to fill in the spare time. What abhorrent garbage. This album is an argument for eugenics.

In the 1980s and 1990s you had the highest chance of taking a sip from your can of soda and it having a cigarette butt or ash in it put there by by an inattentive drunkcle. Consuming this felt like one of those sips. This is music for the type of person that gets too friendly with a convenience store owner because they pick up the same 2L cup of coke and pack of smokes every day around the same time, but you can tell the store owner does not welcome the conversation. The fact that resources were wasted on this in anyway hurts me. Fuel, plastic, electricity, crops, water, oxygen, sun light, busses, aircraft, fabrics, carbon. There are just so many better even local artists for people to give time and money to. Also this album is far too long for what it is.

It’s so bad that it doesn’t even deserve a proper review. I can only assume this is the kind of music that plays on repeat in hell. A total disaster that I’d rather forget!

1001 albums to hear before you die, including 850 albums to make you question the credibility of whoever made this list.

Bawitdaba is a banger but the rest of the album is truly terrible.

Juvenile and unpleasant.

One deserves a medal for listening to this piece of shite all the way through. How the fuck is Kid Rock on this list over Weezer or Neutral Milk Hotel? Travesty.

I really did try to make my mind a blank slate, erase everything I know about this turd, and try to find something to enjoy in this, but I failed. It's just not good. The lyrics, the vocal performance, the music itself, none of it works for me. It just feels extremely uninspired, lazy, and hollow (which is kind of incredible considering how much this dude talks about eating shrooms). I can't even lean on nostalgia for this one despite being a youngster when this album came out. If Picture with Sheryl Crow was on this album it would maybe get a 2, as that's the only Kid Rock song I can recall ever enjoying. A smidgen of sincerity goes a long way. Also, this being classified solely as "metal" is offensive. I did crack a smile once during this album, and that was in Where U at Rock where his little voice goes from left ear to right ear saying "over here," "over there." That shit was funny.

Oh god. Dear god. How does someone like this get to be here?

Wow this is kinda bad

There are people in this world who are legitimately into this garbage. It's enough to make a fella to give up on the human race entirely. The rhymes are basic, the flow is primitive, and the content is juvenile. It draws inspiration from a half-dozen genres... and disrespects every one of them. I want to believe that this is a joke. But I know, in my heart of hearts, that it's not. It's a calculated play to separate angry rednecks from their money. And it worked. So, I guess... congrats, Kid. Maybe you're not as stupid as your album makes you sound. Maybe.

"Don't get scared now, you knew this day would come" - Robert James Ritchie Ah, shucks. I knew I was going to have to go back through this one. Yes, go back through it. I've willingly sat through this before. Not only is this an absolute travesty to most music, I can't even really give it the ironic enjoyment that the Limp Bizkit album is going to get (I will defend that mess, 🍫⭐🐟). So where does this album go wrong? Instrumentally, it's fine, the backing band knows what they're doing. Everything *around* Robert James Ritchie works well (I'm not calling him "Kid Rock", that's a dumb name. Planet Tad put it best). I'd like to go through each track, but there's an issue: This album is mostly filler. You have the two big hits at the beginning with the rest of the mediocre hits sprinkled in, in between those are some of the most boring songs to ever come out. 1. Bawtidiba - This song fills the same space as Carnival - Kanye West, Ty Dollar Sign to me: it's vapid and I don't care for it 2. Cowboy - The other big hit that could arguably be enjoyable. I can see enjoyment from this. 3. Devil Without A Cause - Only saved by Joe C., in my opinion. Only thing to give me any enjoyment. 4. I Am The Bullgod - Man, this song is *fine*, perfectly fine instrumentally and absolutely vapid vocally. Such a great choice to fit as also the closer... This shows up on the album TWICE for some reason. Last time I checked, it's not even different. It's literally just the same song copy and pasted to extend out the ending track (probably so he wasn't ending on the song where he said the n word but we'll get to that). 5. Roving Gangster (Rollin) - Everyone rags on Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle) but this is like exponentially worse. 6. Wasting Time - Definitely starts leaning more into the country style but it's still just unbelievably boring. We've had twenty minute long songs that are less vapid than this. 7. Welcome To The Party - Oh, sorry, "Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School)". A Prince you are not, Robert Ritchie, at most you are a Dueuce, er, Duke. Anyways by this point, if you haven't shut the album off yet, you're in for the long haul. This is probably one of the worst on the album, and absolutely one of the worst singles they had. The music video for this is also bad, but I haven't seen it in forever and I'm not going back to watch it. The featured verse at the end makes me think that Robert Ritchie just told them to do it for them instead of asking. 8. I Got One For Ya' - Genuinely, what am I listening to? This started off with him being drunk and then transitioning into OJ??? Funny now, especially that OJ's dead, but really just makes me uncomfortable. Feels sleezy to the worst degree. 9. Somebody's Gotta Feel This - It's at this point I realize, Robert James Ritchie cannot rap. Rap takes a lot of different pieces to make it work well: flow, rhyme scheme, instrumental cohesion (how you fit with the beat), and a lot more that someone much smarter than me could explain. Robert James Ritchie has none of these. There is one flow with a somewhat changing backing track and that's it. Again, props to the backing band, shame they have to be sacked up with this guy. 10. Fist of Rage - I genuinely cannot remember anything about this song and I just heard it. Literally in one ear and out the other. 11. Only God Knows Why - Ah, so Robert James Ritchie decides to show off his range from making some of the worst "rap metal" you've heard to making some of the worst acoustic "ballads" you've ever heard. Awesome. Just amazing. Great use of autotune as well, it doesn't reach Never Enough levels of comedy but it's *just* notable enough to be horrendous. Also, "You get what you put in" Sure Robert Ritchie... Sure... You really tell us that putting in garbage gets out garbage. Thank you with your redneck persona, from someone born WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HAND. 12. F**k Off - So to some of us who haven't actually listened to the dirty version probably haven't checked this one out, which I don't blame you it's NOTHING. There is one note I have for it, is that a young scrappy feature of a man named Marshall B Mathers III shows up on it... he doesn't have a good verse but I think he's got something, he might go somewhere. Also the last two minutes is just voice messages... Awesome. No notes. Amazing. Note: When looking up this song, Eminem quotes being coked out of his mind for this, the only time he's tried coke in his life. I don't really have anything to note but I guess that could explain why his verse was so aimless. 13. Where U at Rock - Okay, so decent idea with the panning, but it's still the same garbage as usual. I don't care. I just want this torture over. 14. Black Chick, White Guy - Finally, the last song. A 7 minute ballad, I guess, to his upbringing and raising his kids. Look, I'll give him one thing, he definitely gave an interesting story. Just a shame that it feels fabricated, solely cause of his "redneck pimp" persona bleeding into it. This guy could tell me a concrete fact and I wouldn't be able to trust him. Oh yeah and this is the one where he says the n word, so any good semblance I had for this automatically gets nullified. Oh, and fun fact, this isn't even from this album. It's listed as such but this is actually a song from the album before this, just slapped on with no care, attached with a "remix" of I Am A Bullgod, which I put in quotations cause I am 90% sure it's just the same song. Wouldn't put it past him. All in all, this was genuinely one of the worst albums I've suffered through. Despite being a nu metal / rap metal fan, this is one of the worst albums to ever come out of this. It's aimless, it's repetitive, it's annoying, it's sleezy to a fault, and it's DIAMOND SELLING. Yes, it's rated Diamond by the RIAA, meaning millions on top of millions bought this record. Millions of people suckered by a decent blow up single and now have this in their collection. I am one of those people and I regret ever listening to this.

Lowest common denominator rap rock. There are countless records excluded from the list from this same year that are more deserving of your attention. Here’s five of them: Black Star - Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star Tortoise - TNT Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Duster - Stratosphere Boredoms - Super Æ

Honestly, that was a pretty interesting listen. More interesting than I thought it would be. Somehow *Devil Without A Cause* both confirmed and thwarted my expectations about what sort of artist Kid Rock really was at the end of the nineties. A poser for sure. But one that had the right bag of tricks for those times. *Tricks* being a key word to remember here... Musically speaking, a lot of those rock-rap cuts could have found their place in the tracklists of Beastie Boys gems *Licensed To Ill* and *Paul's Boutique* (case in point; the title track). And Robert James Ritchie's rap flow clearly draws from that time period as well. It's just that Kid Rock was only ten to fifteen years late compared to how the game was played everywhere else, ha ha. Anything related to rap moved so fast during the last decade of the previous century. But this can't fully excuse from how terribly derivative and/or out of touch the whole thing already was when it was released in 1998. The first six tracks, roughly speaking the first half of the record going from "Bawitdaba" to "Wastling Time--shrewdly sampling a famous Fleetwood Mac hook--are catchy in their own right, probably. And those songs respect the usual requirements in their respective nu-metal, rap-rock, grunge and hip-hop-adjacent subgenres, I'm not gonna deny it. The attempt to mix rap and country on "Cowboy" falls flat on its face (I hate most of what Lil Nas X does, but in that area, far later single "Old Town Road" is at least ten times catchier than "Cowboy" for instance). But I also admit "Cowboy"'s slot as a second track is well-thought out. Contrast and 180-degree turns abound in *Devil Without A Cause*. And on paper at least, it's the right thing to do for that sort of project. Unfortunately, the second half of this record (plus the tail end of the first) is just downright *terrible*. When the tap of *truly* effective rock/metal guitar hooks peter out, you can indeed see Kid Rock's music for what it really is: void, empty, fake, awkward, and frankly embarrassing... Most of those tracks on the second half are lazy attempts to emulate Rage Against The Machine, and nothing more. And with a very different message to boot! (shot out to that genius reviewer who only wrote " Rage In Favour Of The Machine" in this section). One or two other cuts are also second-rate rants about "old-school hip hop" that are not fooling anyone. And the lyrics on most of those "songs" are ridiculously dumb and hackneyed. Which, frankly, is a worse crime than their supposed "vulgarity". But the worst is yet to come. It's actually when Kid Rock attempts to look sincere and heartfelt through "autobographical" introspection that he actually *sounds* the most ridiculous. And it's when he even looks *more* calculating and formulaic than in any of the opportunistic singles sprinkled on the first part of his record. A mindboggling paradox that I would have a hard time explaining--you'll have to listen to "Only God Knows Why" and last track "Black Chick, White Guy" to get the full picture... About the first of those two cuts... The narcissistic self-homage on the autotune-laden country cut "Only God Knows Why" is as shallow and pointless as the music is in the song--clearly going nowhere on a compositional standpoint. Besides, that use of autotune has nothing groundbreaking or "artistic" to it: as the autotune's digital enhancements suddenly dissappear for "harder" vocals at the end of the track, you quickly understand that this trick was only here because Kid Rock couldn't properly *sing* in the booth. So there was a B plan. And it's a horrible, horrible one. But the cream on the shitcake is the closer "Black Chick, White Guy". Because the instrumentation and vocal performance on it sound so frigging *weak* and *thin* that they actually magnify how "artificial" and overproduced everything before was. And not even the autobiographical "topical" contents of the song can save it. Explaining how Kid Rock ended up as the father of a mixed-race son at a very young age, and how the mother of that son got the singer into trouble, and how the mother's situation replicated some generational curse for African Americans, could have led to something at least emotional and "conclusive" for the end of the record. But the song sounds like an awkward addtition instead, a deliberate afterthought. And mostly because Kid Rock's voice on it is incredibly flat and soulless. And because, ultimately, there's nothing you take home from that song, both lyrically and musically. It just stops after 5 minutes or so. What the f*ck was that for?, you end up thinking. But not in the sense that it makes you ponder on the issues at the heart of the song. There's just not enough soul and brightness in the way that personal story's told anyway. It's, once again, *empty*. But given that the topic is both personal and dead serious this time, this comes off as a bigger crime. About that story, I've just read that Kid Rock eventually managed to raise a stable, well-rounded son. Good for them both. Who could have seen that coming, huh? Never judge a book by its cover, and don't let any prejudice obscure your better judgement. Of course, now we are into the future, we know that if this particular story ended quite well, we also know what Kid Rock stands for on a political level these days, unfortunately. And *here*, there's a whole negative aura surrounding him that we can't fully dismiss--even if *Devil Without A Cause* was released decades ago. Honestly, you could have predicted that downward spiral from the dumb lyrics on this album. You can't change a leopard its spots, but the latter also stand out more clearly as years go by. In spite of all that, let me just point out that I tried hard not to take the artist's later trajectory into account in my overall assessment of the record. And so here's my conclusion: on a musical standpoint, *Devil Without A Cause* is still a far better album that the Limp Bizkit's "Chocolate Fish..." nonsense, also famously panned on this app. Yet I've discussed with some Limp Bizkit fans online recently, about that other "bad" rap-rock-nu-metal record that "Chocolate Fish..." is, and I have to admit most of those fans were cool, chill, and even pretty gracious when I literally shat on the album. In other words, they didn't take the album very seriously themselves, and were very humorous and yet respectful of my tastes when they "defended" the album. And even more importantly, they showed me I shouldn't take all of this seriously either. A valuable lesson for someone who routinely writes overlong reviews on this app? Now, can I have that sort of fruitful conversation with *current* Kid Rock fans? Nope. They'll ramble about "woke culture" cancelling their favorite artists, among other paranoid delusions and contrarian ignorant takes. They'll promote hateful takes about society, and praise politicians passing off as saviors whereas the latter are at least as crooked as the system they supposedly fight against. They'll try to hide their many prejudices at first, but in their hatred of the "left", they'll end up showing their true colours quite quickly. And those devils have a "cause" fortunately: to maintain the status quo against anything that could move society forward. So f*ck'em all. And f*ck this album--even if objectively, it probably deserves a 2/5 grade. Since I gave a 1/5 grade to Limp Bizkit, I've gotta maintain some sort of internal consistency anyway, especially when it comes to "negative" impacts on music culture overall. None of those records are "essential", everyone and their mothers know that. Hence why it doesn't matter to me if I take out a point for the grading of a Kid Rock album, even unfairly. Lastly, if a "hardcore" fan of Kid Rock *today* loses their way into this app, I hope they read this review, among the myriad of other negative reviews, and get pissed off as they should. You can't reason with those people anyway, right? Just like you can't reason with their "idol" publicly blabbering increasingly fascistic and/or hateful takes. Because here's the thing about artists getting "cancelled": it's just that they reap what they sow. And what's right for Kanye West certainly is right for Kid Rock as well, *ain't it*? Number of albums left to review: 253 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 326 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 186 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 240 (including this one)

Oh, how I loved this album in the early 00's. Wasting Time was my hype song and I sang it at the top of my lungs with the window down in my very practical Volvo, feeling oh so fly while I was in fact pregnant and NOT fly at all. \"Where You at Rock\" is still a term we text when my husband and I have lost each other in Costco. Kid Rock was my \"white trash guilty pleasure\" and sometimes I long for the days before I realized he is a racist, privileged, culture-appropriating asscrack with a gun... alas, those simpler days have gone. I didn't listen, can't take the idea of him making a red, white, and blue cent off my streams. Watch me kick, Robert James Ritchie, I don't care if I'm bitchy...

This is the worst Beastie Boys album I’ve ever listened to. OK, fine, I’ll be real with you, it’s a completely soulless, uninspired, mediocre 2 that probably has at least one or two guilty pleasures on it, if only for their presence in the cultural zeitgeist of the time, or in the obnoxious case of Cowboy, a genuine acknowledgement that there is something catchy to it, however minor, if only for the obvious sample and how Neil Cicierega has used it in the years since. From listening solely to the clean version, and refusing to hear Kid Rock openly use the N-word on the original final track of this album, what I find is that this is my “rap / country / rock fusion whatever the fuck genre we’re defining this as” version of Apocalypse Dudes, in which if you completely ignore the fucking horribly dated lyrics and just pluck one song from this album at a time while exercising or something else, you will end up with a small but effective boost of energy in terms of having not terrible guitar and drum work, even with Kid Rock just screaming on more than half the tracks. As an entire album experience though, it is objectively so fucking boring, so draining, so long, so repetitive, and so similar for most of its tracks, that the only reason it’s even partially getting a 2 is that there are at least a few fleeting moments of actual tiny headbops that come in and out, unlike that fucking awful Tricky album (Maxinquaye is still worse, yes, sue me). Out of a complete lack of respect for Kid Rock as a person though, even though this album is a 2 in my mind, I'm going to rate it a 1 anyway, because fuck you, Kid Rock.

I fucking refuse to listen to Kid Rock, this is the type of record where you really wish this site would let you do negative stars.

A good laugh I guess, why it's in the book who knows

Even if this album didn't suck, Bob Ritchie is fake, culture-appropriating, douche. Also, this is listed as a metal album? It is a huge genre that I have a relatively narrow interest in but come on, that's just embarrassing for everybody. I can't give this hour or so of crap a zero so it's a one.

The success of this album was mostly carried by the popularity of the single Bawitdaba. There are plenty of other better rap/rock and Nu-Metal albums from this time that are more deserving to be on this list. So I can't even see this being added to represent a genre at a certain time like some albums. Overall this album is a lot of empty bravado over prominent guitar riffs. I was 10 When this came out remember how popular it was in middle school. Maybe I'm being too hard on it by associating with that age range but the album comes off as very immature. Reminds me too much about middle school kids trying to be hard with fake bragging about about not being afraid of cops while doing drugs and getting women. The favorite track was only picked because it seemed to have a lower amount of bragging than the others.

I think it's easy to see Kid Rock on anything in 2023 and want to immediately give it a 1. I told myself: "No. I refuse to succumb to my biases. I will be the better man and listen to this with an open mind", I really did. In spite of all that, this album just sucks. First Track is what if "Bulls on Parade" had ADHD and no interesting messaging. The second track is again, one of the most obnoxious things I have ever heard. In short, if Turbonegro's Apocalypse Dudes was all the good about late 90s edgyboy Four Loko culture put into one album, then this is all the bad. This is like if someone took RATM and Alice In Chains, subtracted everything that makes those two acts interesting/worthwhile listening to, and made an album from the week-old moldy leftovers. This album has a terrible habit of making 4-minute tracks that feel like they're 30 minutes long. The worst of rap + the worst of country + a shred of hardcore = a real stinker of an album. While a lot of Eminem's stuff hasn't aged great either, I still can't believe he featured on this album. Kid Rock should be be tried for war crimes for putting a 12-minute track in this album, although, somehow, that one track manages to be the most coherent out of the entire album (but I still won't add it to my playlist with my favorites from each album because I don't want a 12-minute Kid Rock track in my rotation). Strong 1.

Awful

This must only be on here because it had a lot of sales. There's no value.

Why is this listed under metal?

Wow. So bad it’s laughable. It’s from a very distinct time in cultural history, and it only fit in that brief window. Now it’s near offensively terrible.

This is categorized as metal… I can’t even….

I was honestly going to give this a 2 but the samey-sounding songs do nothing to justify the hour plus runtime. Maybe if the album was cut if half. “But this was one of the first country-rap albums ever! He pioneered the genre!” What a terrible genre

A product of the times, hasn’t aged well. He’s a rich kid from Michigan cosplaying as working class redneck trailer trash. That last track is some real red pill, incel MGTOW garbage. Though not on this album, it has forever annoyed me that he rhymes “things” with “things” on All Summer Long. He sucks.

I tried, I really did. Sickened by the sight of this absolute melt of a man, I huffed and puffed and put it on Spotify before getting into my morning shower. Quickly, I found myself outside my house on the porch, sat in a rocking chair and asking Cleetus to "beer me", before exploding the can he'd gently throw over to me on my forehead and downing the entire thing. Soon after, a neighbourhood racoon scuttled by but didn't make it any further than the pellets which came careening out of my shotgun. Of course, none of this really happened but it is fair more enjoyable to type that than it was to listen to the first three songs of this tripe, which is where my journey ended. A shitey shite shitebag.

I listened to (a bit of) this on YouTube on an incognito tab because the thought of someone seeing it in my Spotify or internet history was too embarrassing

God I hate this garbage. Shitty rap rock. And too long like so much 90s crap. Doesn't help he is a Trump supporter.

oh no oh god no *sigh* Next time I get one of the lowest rated albums, can I please get a weird one? Give me Trout Mask Replica, or Duck Stab, or Locust Abortion Technician (last one got bumped off the list by newly added albums, but the point still stands). This is the low point of this whole experience thus far. He thinks he’s rebellious, but this album is so generic. Apparently he toured with Ice Cube, a rapper I actually like (see my rating/review for The Predator), in 1990. I’m disappointed in Ice Cube, honestly. The title track is just atrocious. The rapping about how popular he’s going to be is just so self-centered and stuck up, and the actual kid rapping is just sad. It was pulled off way better a full 116 albums ago with ‘Mango Pickle Down River’ on Kala. On ‘Welcome 2 The Party’, the ‘boom boom boom’ part is SO annoying. Okay, I think I’ve said enough. Anyway, I’m actually only halfway through. I’ll check back in to tell you if I still agree with my points here. intermission no one feels this oh my god this song is 5 minutes long and all that happens is he acts sad with autotune over generic country chords i dont care anymore either buddy end of intermission ok i still hate it. the last songs is about a woman who keeps pregnanting or something. then a remix about how he is god or something. i think spotify sensed my pain because on the radio after they played the bring the noise metal version. i actually like that song. anyway i think im turning into a southern redneck (living in texas doesnt help) so im going to heal my ears with some miles davis. see ya.

This album is a crime. I admit I only listened to the three most popular songs, but they are so terrible I couldn't listen to the rest. It's inclusion on this list makes me question the author's integrity. The rap songs are terrible, the country songs are horrible and the rap-country songs are abhorrent. I'm not saying rap-country doesn't work (Old Town Road is great), but Kid Rock doesn't know how to do either genre. Also, is it just me or is the mixing on these track totally amateur? Even instrument and vocal sounds like they are in a different room.

Absolutely dreadful. Who on earth thinks this is an essential album?

If the album was maybe half the length it could squeak out a 2 for competent catchy hooks, but everything else about the songs including lyrics, melodies, and persona is just garbage. Kid Rock is so try hard to be a bad-ass that it's laughable. He's also a piece of shit. Can't say I've ever listened to any songs beyond Bawitdaba and Cowboy and I listened to the rest of this just cause it's hilarious how dumb it is. I will say if no one has heard a Kid Rock song, it's at least culturally important in the US to hear at least a bit to understand that this is how lots of folks view a life worth living.

COWBOYYYYYYY Is that a CHILD saying that??????? i do be thinkin about jumbo shrimp a lot, too. I mean im kinda bored by track 4. Its a lot of the same thing with slightly different backtracks. It’s an interesting album for the time, but it’s kinda insufferable. I genuinely do not know why this album is considered one if the best. But i must be honest. I did not finish this album. I stopped at track 8. but can you blame me?

What a fucking poser, man

Felt dirty just cueing this up. Then the first song was better than expected. Then the rest wasn't. 15M people bought this

YEE HAW YEAH NAH.

This is only here to let you know that Fred Durst was not the worst thing about music at the turn of the millennium. Honestly not deserving of its one star. Makes Sade, Yes and the Eagles sound like the Beatles. And as a human being, he sounds like the reason God created cancer and dysentry.

Probably the greatest album that i have had the privildge to indulge myself upon and bath in the kid rock glorry

Por algo es de los peores calificados en la lista global.

Que vrgs hace este pendejo aquí.

ruim que doi

euugh

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Kid rock rocks!

Отличный альбом, некоторые треки очень понравились

Dit album stond lang geleden in mijn playlist. Het is al weer even geleden dat ik het geluisterd had. Wellicht omdat Kid Rock denkt dat het beter/leuker wordt als er sex & drugs in zit. Een kinderlijke gedachte, maar vooruit, dat past bij de artiestennaam. Het voelt dan toch een beetje als 'Ghettootje spelen'. Terwijl hij dit helemaal niet nodig heeft. Het album biedt verder een variatie aan rap (ik denk bij veel nummers aan een rauwe LL Cool J.), waarbij hij de combi met andere stijlen (veel rock) vindt. Zo doet het eerste nummer mij denken aan Korn. Nummers als Devil without a Cause bieden zelfs een mooie variatie binnen het nummer met een doordachte opbouw (al hoeft dat kind niet, maar ja, past ook weer bij de artiestennaam). Het album is wellicht niet uitmuntend, maar heeft voor zijn genre een bovengemiddelde kwaliteit. Wat veel bepalender is, dat het gewoon heel fijn wegluistert en meeblèrt. Alleen op te zetten op hoog volume, bij voorkeur in de auto. 4,5 ster

Could’ve removed half the songs

I know I supposed to hate this. It's vapid, loud, obnoxious, rap rock. Not done that well, but on the other hand it is a great example of a damn near perfect blend of genres. It's like if Vanilla Ice had preferred Guns N Roses to Queen. Fuck it, I love this shit.

Awwwwe yeah. Some Kid Rock. Let's go!! good shit. I love the unique rock rap here. Good catchy lyrics and bass lines. hehe Welcome 2 the Party reminds me of 2 live crew, the lyrics as well as the sound/style. OH yeah!! Only God Knows Why is a good slow jam. Loved it! Honestly that may have been the first time I heard the whole thing front to back. 5 stars

I forgot how much I liked that album. Was singing along the whole time

Fun

One of my favs.

idk yet

Really cool, this was a nice surprise !

Classic, before crazy

Very nice

this was my all time fav album in 1998 (8th grade) shit was pure fire

Tosi hyvää räppiä ja menevää musiikkia. Sopii menevään tekemiseen.

8/10

Man, when the chicks had the beepers this shit was my jam, and honestly it still kinda hit.I was surprised how many lyrics I still knew. Black Chick White Guy is the most underrated song on the album. I know people hate but I could put on about 3 or 4 songs from this album around a group of elder millennials and they'd still get down. 2 things can be true. This album can be good and Kid Rock can still suck as a person. Also besides this album and that song with Sheryl Crow, there is no acceptable Kid Rock. I absolutely hated everything after, but especially that trash ass abomination of the Werewolves of London intro into Sweet Home Alabama.

I am stunned and confused by how much I enjoyed this. It's nu-metal but also country rock and also cringe god edge lord simpleton hip hop. It's definitely objectively bad. But it's subjectively so-bad-it's-good. I laughed out loud at several moments. Kid Rock seems like an absolute chud and I'm so happy this album exists.

Kid rock is such a controversial icon, the album was a fun listen and I wouldn't mind givnig it another listen.

Du bon rap rock ! Par contre l'album est un poil trop long et le gars est un sac à merde, sinon ça aurait pu taper le perfect

Can’t say this is phenomenal music it’s nostalgic to my high school years so I love it

Not quite a 5-star album, wish I could give it 4.5 stars. Still really solid and a joy to listen to.

the album cover made me think it was somethin indie or like Wicked Game vibes, so I was surprised lol but after a first listen it really fits the artist. Bawitdaba was a great intro to the album simply because it made me want to listen more. Then Cowboy started an I was so confused, my first thought was that the album isn't meant to be just one cohesive genre, it's just a bunch of songs, like a playlist (which is completely fine I don't mind it at all, I'd say it shows great versatility and is a great way to not be bound by a specific genre). LOVE the instrumental on Devil without a cause also what the fuck did that kid just say LMAO????

Never listened to Kid Rock but was not what I thought. Thoroughly enjoyed however.

Unique mixes of sound. Party vibe

7.5/10

Not my jam, but it did create an entire genre of music so there must be something here. "I'm outta sight like the planet Mars" - inaccurate

MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIII... Mixed bag, but I really like the rap rock tracks (go figure).

I had forgotten all about this album, and when it came up in the rotation I buckled down for a mental battle against red necked, woman-abusing machismo. The lyrics and stories are often crude and derogatory towards women, but they are in keeping with other rap of the same era—that is to say I'm not at all the target audience, but I try to maintain some level of tolerance or even appreciation for something as a piece of art and personal expression. While I really don't want this to show up as one of my higher rated albums, I can't overlook that this is a fascinating feat of genre mashup, there's some fun and skilled rapping, there's delightfully heavy guitars that manage to maintain clarity and musicality, and from a purely musical standpoint there's quite a few good tunes and beats on this album. Standouts to me are the exquisite bass riff in the track Devil Without a Cause, Cowboy of course as the epitome of their sound of 'hip hop heavy country metal', Welcome 2 the Party is despicable lyrically but rhythmically a great throwback to earlier hip hop, Fuck Off wasn't good but I got a kick out of the Eminem cameo, and Black Chick, White Guy is a surprisingly poignant end to the whole thing and will forever stand out in my head as one of the most risque songs I heard during my youth.

I’m am absolutely humiliated by how much I liked this album. I blame my childhood.

Better than I expected, 4/5

Me ha resultado muy divertido

Good rock rap album

Nice

Kid rock does

This is one of the first albums I've been generally stunned is on here. Did Kid Rock really need to make an album over an hour long? "Bawitdaba" was a lot harder than I expected. Not a lot of country in there, sounded like some Linkin Park or something in that vein. "Cowboy" is a little more country, but still doesn't really have a lot of country sound in there. I liked the little saloon piano section. "I ain't straight out of compton, I'm straight out the trailer" is a funny line. "Devil Without A Cause" is pretty good, I like the beat. "Wasting Time" also has a sweet beat. "Only God Knows Why" is what I thought this entire album would be like (minus the weird autotune?). Songs like "Where U at Rock" make me feel like I'm listening to a poppier and less hardcore RATM. I was really surprised to see this album. I am even more surprised to say I kind of liked it. I didn't like every song, but it was a LOT more rap than country. It's closer to Beastie Boys or Linkin Park than it is to country. 7/10

good album

Oh, I haven't heard this album since, well, 1998. This one had the height-disadvantaged gentleperson on the album. I miss him. I like how he tells you his name at the beginning of the first song. I have a sneaking suspicion that Kid Rock isn't his real name, though. He does mention his name throughout the album, just in case you forget who you're listening to. Cowboy shows some versatility. The title track has an old school vibe that's pretty dope, and even has a slight Too Short sound for a second. That's probably my favorite song on here. I see he toured with Too Short early in his career, so that makes sense. I would say this is his best album, but I haven't listened to any of his other albums, so there's that. Look, I think Kid Rock is generally an asshat, but he is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and he worked his ass off throughout his career. Mad respect. I really like the old school rap vibes and the blend of styles on this album, plus Eminem has a cameo. I'll give this a 4 for all that. I refuse to listen to any of his country albums, though.

bawitdaba. nostalgia. magic in a bottle.

I enjoyed this more than I expected. 4 *

i didnt know he rap?

Quite a vibe! Didn't expect it to be so fun.

I mean kid rock sucks but the album was good I guess, rock rap is cool idk I hate giving him royalties

Well there you go. I think I'm a kid rock fan. A few too many songs and some don't do anything for me but overall a lot of cool songs. Stand out songs - Bawitdaba, devil without a cause, Wasting time, black girl/ white chick

Kantri rap rokkia. Ihan hyvää pään nyökkäys kamaa. Vähän saa kans semmosia grunge ja nu metal viboja kanssa. Vähän ehkä ykstoikkoista, mutta hyvää. Mitä vittua, Eminem Fuck Off kappaleessa. Bawitdapa oli klassikko. Parhaat: Bawitdaba, Fist Of Rage, Where U At Rock

Country Rap by a redneck pimp.

so cool

Rocked rocked those days

7.5/10

Also muss sagen dieses Album hat mich frühere 2.Liga Saisons des HSV erinnert. Sehr stark angefangen und einen richtig gepackt und mitmachen lassen. Dann wurde die Hälfte passiert und es ebbte ab wie die Nordsee bei Vollmond und man landet am Ende doch nicht auf nem Aufstiegsplatz. 3-4 Sterne bin unentschlossen, 3 ist glaube ich zu hart.

Bra denne. Mye forskjellig. Likte mye av det godt. Flere gode referanser til andre artister og filmer. Bedre enn mye av det som er satt til 3 stjerner tidligere. Må derfor løftes opp.

Surprised at how much I liked this! Catchy tracks with good hooks. The rapping is not sophisticated but does the job. 4.2

This slapped in places.

Better than I thought.It would be somewhat niche but I still liked it.Four out of five

Sure young boy went full retard in recent times, but before the drugs cooked his judgement he once had a preternatural talent for braggadocio and rock and roll. Before he became a parody he did come up with this album which sounds good, and while a bit one note lyrically, is not musically and has some genuinely good and hard songs. You can look for answers, but that ain't fun! Should take his own advice.

I never got past Bawitdaba - which kicks ass - and always thought Cowboy sucked and was popular only because of a conspiracy. Hate to admit it now, but the rest of the album kind of rips.

It was good except for the language and the fact that it's coming from him

This album is getting way too much hate on here just because it's Kid Rock. Yeah he's a huge POS and a pandering fraud, but I'll separate the art from the artist: I enjoyed this album a good amount. The opening tracks are bangers. I have some white trash roots in me and they scratched that itch. As the album went on, the songs got a little worse but still not outright terrible. A lot of the songs have no business being as long as they are, though. Nonetheless, I found myself head nodding along and saying "fuck yeah" multiple times.

I hear a lot of Rage against the machine and beastie boys in the flow and music here. I've never actually listened to a whole Kid Rock album before but I found it pretty enjoyable. I've obviously heard 'Bawitdaba' before, it's quite a classic, but I don't think I could have said that it was made by Kid Rock before. Standouts Bawitdaba Devil Without a Cause Only God Knows Why 4/5

My introduction to Kid Rock was getting History of Rock because I liked the way Metallica's Sad But True was sampled in American Badass. I never listened to this album other than the two(?) hits. Pretty entertaining :)

Brabo

Fun to listen to despite his modern day Trumpist politics XD

The first song is a slapper! This is how you open an album! Love how almost every song has the explicit [E] in it, hehe. Child voices rapping profanities is... an interesting decision. Not a good one, though. Autotuned cowboy singing is also a strange thing. It was alright, but its age is showing in its cracks.

Pretty solid, but a bit too hard for a workday track.

Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" was a surprising gem! While rap-rock isn't usually my thing, this album proved to be fun, engaging, and surprisingly enjoyable. Though not something I'd revisit, it definitely exceeded my expectations. 4/5

I wish Kid Rock wasn't such a misogynistic Republican because this album really does slap. Love the mix of genres. I was debating giving it a 5-star but there were a few songs on the second-half of the album that I didn't love and found to be unnecessary.

Ooof…I really wanted to hate this, and there isn’t much that I can get through without something that says, “Oh right, Kid Rock”. “I Am the Bullgod” *slams,* but you can’t get through it without some ear bleach handy. Fine, he’s better than I thought when he was picking Skynnard’s corpse. But the lyrics aren’t truth; they’re just gross.

This was actually quite good. I am not sure how random it was popping up the day after Trump won the election but I am going to choose that it was. A bunch of hits and a pretty unique sound for the time.

Better than I expected

I remember so many of these tracks! Enjoyable back to history.

I wasnt aware he sang "Bawitdaba" and "I am the Bullgod"!!

This album is much better than expected. There's a required end-of-the-90s-auto-tuned song that ruins this album...

Nice mix of rock and rap. When it comes to the instruments, they don't disappoint, making it as heavy as a metal band.

There’s a certain crassness that comes with the territory of what he’s trying to go with here, but he pushes it past its limits at certain points for a shock value that, as a contemporary of Eminem and RATM, just isn’t there.

Seems like lots of people hate on this one. I was there when it debuted, thought it was kinda corny but still rocked out to it. Upon re-listen, some of it still rocks, some of it cringe, but now it’s nostalgia. I remember throwing this in the discman to cut the lawn, high AF

Sounds astoundingly dense and powerful. Variations are small but exist in a way I wouldn‘t have expected it here. I am mildly surprised by this. Good job!

Raw talent. It will be interesting to see if he has staying power.

Completely dumbfounded by how much I enjoyed this. These songs are ridiculous and genre defying that it shocked me. And a Slim Shady feature to boot. It may be trashy but it's really fun to listen to. so many albums on this list I have no thoughts or feelings about and they pass by with no enjoyment and I still give it three stars. In contrast I found myself having a really good time listening to this one.

Even though I detest Kid Rock these days for being the Trump version of a musician, I really loved this album when I was a kid- like I knew every single lyric front to back, and it was a great respite from the Nu-Metal and grunge albums that I was listening to at the time. It's a solid album. These songs are provocative, energetic, catchy, cool, and fun. He has a knack for bringing you to his life, to his setting, and making you feel like you know can empathize with this way of life, and also that you should care about what he's got going on. It's wildly successful in converting you into an empathetic listener even if this reality is a totally fabricated one and he is really was this punk little rich kid from a rich family. It's genuinely hard for me to separate the artist from the music. I tend to get too involved with the person-behind-the-thing in just about everything that I come across; whether its a new music album, a cooking instructional video, or a new book I'm reading. I need to know how that musician thinks, I need to know where that chef grew up, and I need to know that author's political stances. I'm trying really hard to not let this one bring down my rating here. I think this album is a strong 4/5 and on the right day is a 5/5 for me. There's so many good songs on it- "Bawitdaba" "Cowboy" "Devil Without a Cause" "I Am the Bullgod" "Wasting Time" "Only God Knows Why" "Black Chick, White Guy" - all of these are above and beyond "solid". If another artist was attempting this style and had 1 or 2 of these on their album, I'm sure that that album would be loved and would sell well. But for Kid Rock to have one album that has all of these on it, it kind of feels like a greatest hits. I'll love this album forever regardless of the person behind it.

So I went into this trying to keep an open mind and just judge the music itself. The little I know about Kid Rock, he seems to be a complete and utter little turd of a person. But I never actually heard his music. In fact, I didn't even know that he raps. That said, to my great surprise, I actually really enjoyed this album. Most of the time I don't enjoy rap, but it sounded good to me here and the instrumentation just rocked and was quite varied. The lyrics on the other hand sounded incredibly dumb. This is actually a 4.5 to me in terms of the music. But I really can't bring myself to give this 5 stars, just because of how dumb the lyrics are, as well as the whole persona, and the actual person also being a piece of garbage. That said, good music is still good music.

It has everything, rock, rap, country....not a big fan of the last two, but when it's done right like this album .... Chapeau! Not a big fan of Kid Rock, but I have to say that this has changed my perspective.... Well done! 4/5

I was listening to the opening track (Bawitdaba) when I realized I was hearing something that couldn't be in the song. Unfortunately this turned out to be the rapid dripping of water coming out of my ceiling, a place I typically do not expect water to be pouring out of. After a brief interlude to call someone about this development, I attempted to return to my yogurt while listening to Cowboy and googling the lyrics, thinking about all the times my friends sang these two songs in parking lots and bedrooms and wondering how this was my life, then and now. By the title track I was holding my head in my hands, reading the wikipedia pages for Joe C and this album, wondering what I had ever done to deserve this. Then, sometime during Roving Gangster (Rollin'), something started to come over me. I found myself actually enjoying Wasting Time as I piled wet towels for the laundry. Welcome 2 the Party was a pretty good time as I vacuumed out the cat's bathroom (which will now be our bathroom for at least a few days) of stray litter. Isn't this what Kid Rock is made for? People contemplating bathing using a bowl of water heated in the microwave because the plumbing is shot? Is it not a great afternoon at the trailer park to grill out while your mama's sister sets up the karaoke machine so you can scream "you get what you put in and people get what they deserve"? Maybe this album belongs here after all. A lot of these are cringe, but they are bangers that cringe. My fuse is short and I am short too!! Then the adrenaline started wearing off around Where U at Rock and listening to Black Chick, White Guy as I dragged a laundry sack as big as myself out the front door made me remember all of the times "slipping mickeys" got dropped in this album. A guilty 4.

It's kid Rock and I'm not exactly sure what I want to say but I guess it's at least a high three which is better than I was expecting so I'll round up to a 4

Very good album

Better than I originally thought, some good songs on this album

Old good Kid Rock. Fat guitar and punchy rap lyrics were evaluated in flammable stuff. I love this drive and cowboy spirit. For me this album is the best of Kid and significant for this epoch of 90th.

Oh fuck, here we are. Given his antics and espoused beliefs have far overshadowed his music, I wasn't expecting a place for Kid Rock here. Yet this generator never ceases to surprise. These songs I have not heard for many years and for good reason. These are songs one gets into at a formative age and it forms their purview. But then we grow up and get into much better stuff, so I listened to this with way, way tempered expectations. At first, the volume was low enough to support me but, then, something odd happened. The songs got kind of good and the volume increased. Devil Without a Cause, repetitive musings about lack of and subsequent success and archetype roleplay notwithstanding, is actually pretty decent. There's a moment where Kid paves a path to where he'll find his biggest success but it is an outlier and he mostly holds his own as this rappity-rapper. Is it for everyone? I can see it not being the case. Yet one can't judge a book by its cover. Favorites: Bawitdaba, Cowboy, Devil Without a Cause, I Am the Bullgod, Wasting Time, Welcome 2 the Party, Somebody's Gotta Feel This, Only God Knows Why, Fuck Off.

His rap is catchy. I like it.

This was awful and amazing

I will listen again. I actually really like it.

Not going to lie, I went into this one with ALL kind of bias, assuming it wouldn’t be my cup of tea because of Kid’s decidedly off putting public persona and comments as of late. But it didn’t take long to forget all that and just enjoy the album for the fun mix of genres and catchy rhyming it provided throughout the entire (long) runtime.

This is a solid album. Quite a few hits. The rock backed rap is very good and the traditional old school rap is surprisingly good. 4.4

4.6

enjoyed the sound very much! A bit crude in the lyrics but great sound

I can't lie, I don't want my current opinion of Kid Rock to cloud the love I had for this album when it was first released. Regardless of the person Kid Rock has become, he obviously had incredible talent, at some point, and it's sad to me that he's steered so far away from those early albums.

Classic

liked it

kind of interesting actually i didn't like it at first but over time it's gotten better

Southern Rock, dated references. If not for his crazy political rants I’d listen more when in the mood for this genre.

It's pretty good. I liked that one song from Oz.

Way better than I would have ever predicted. I should have believed what his stage name depicts from the beginning. Loved the sound, got my head bobbing at several times. Really enjoyable project. Expected Marc rating: 3

Quan he començat a escoltar l'àlbum he pensat que em cansaria de seguida, però la veritat és que se m'ha fet súper senzill d'escoltar i m'encanta com manté el groove i l'estil gairebé tota l'estona. M'ha semblat molt disfrutable, encara que es nota molt que és dels late 90's i potser això m'ha fet tenir una mica de bias

Great rockin’ sound. Lots of the rock/rap combo. Heavy guitars. The only thing holding back this album is the large amount of explicit lyrics. Mid 4

I really digged this style of music actually slapped.

A lot of hate for this album. It's cheesy but good! Sometimes you want lobster sometimes you want Mac 'n Cheese. This is a Mac 'n Cheese kind of album. Standouts: Only God Knows Why, Bawitdaba, Cowboy, Wasting Time Others: Devil Without a Cause, Welcome to the Party 3.5

3.5 per track. Actually pretty good despite the juvenile lyrics and the slur.

Not a bad album at all.

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie. Erstaunlich einflussreiches Rap-Rock Album, mit legendären Riffs und unkonventionellen mixes und vielseitigen Stil-Mischung. Textlich etwas holprig aber Kid Rock doesnt five a fock. 4/5

Guilty pleasure

decent, not my style but respect the energy of this man

¿Rap rock? No sé, un poco de mezcla de estilos ... rap - rock- rock indie ... Es como un poco mezcla de estilos en el mismo álbum. Aún así, está bien.

I'd like to issue an apology to the 1001 Album Generator Community for my rating... I fully acknowledge Kid Rock's douchbaggery but damnit you guys I had some really good times partying to this album when it came out :D

¿Rap rock? No sé, un poco de mezcla de estilos ... rap - rock- rock indie ... Es como un poco mezcla de estilos en el mismo álbum. Aún así, está bien.

slaps

Rating this on a curve to make up for one person rating it 1 just because kid rock is a chud. Kid rock is indeed a chud, but this album is great if you take it for what it is. The lyrics aren’t Socrates. It’s a trashy mess. But it’s fun.

To quote Mr. Rock himself, this was indeed "redneck, shit-kicking rock 'n' roll rap." I really enjoyed the fusion of styles and I think it was done really successfully overall. It does make you feel like you're in a rowdy bar with a bottle of beer in one hand, shaking your fist to the music with the other. There's a real energy to it. Of course, there's lots of tiresome tropes in the lyrics, and not a lot of creativity there...even for being 25 years ago. But it's really more about the attitude, I guess.

I remember the hit singles from this album and how I kind of dug their groove. I still do. I think that the mixes are pretty good, in general. So, there is some entertainment value here for me. As for the lyrical content, that may be a bit uninspired for me overall, but considering that I often am not paying any attention to the lyrics, I kind of like this album.

God damn it. I had no intention of enjoying this asshole's music so much. But I did.

I liked this album a lot more than I thought. Funny lyrics and a fuck you attitude. Reminds me of Afroman but was released before their 1st album.

Why is there a child singing in Devil Without a Cause? Eminem feature goes crazy. I’ve heard Kid Rock labeled as one of the most talented musicians of all time and this album was a testament to the statement. The switching between genres during the album and during the songs was phenomenal and well mixed. I am confused however as my parents have been to multiple Kid Rock concerts during my life but I cannot picture them enjoying to any of the songs on this album

Well, not sure that it actually deserves 4* but it was really good to have a more dynamic listen than we' ve had for a while !

Muy copado fue

This album has a bias opinion from me. I first listened as a preteen and loved it. Which is probably the right age to make that statement. Re-listening as an adult I have to say I feel the same. Specifically for ‘bawitdaba’. You don’t go to kid rock for introspective lyrics and compelling compositions, you go to kid rock for crude, unhinged ass kicking ignorance so you can feel that bliss baby. ‘Cowboy’ is an awesome song I don’t care who you are.

4.0

I really dug this album when it came out. Now granted, I think Kid Rock is a douchebag now, I can't deny listening to this album quite a bit back in high school.

Wasnt bad when it came out and is still good. Not great but not bad either.

I thought this was quintessentially Kid Rock at his peak. Not a huge fan of his stuff, but I do like how he really wants to be country. 🤠

The redneck rap rock album that I am kinda ashamed to say I get down with some of it. Damn it kid just pick up the phone and never autotune a ballad again. Stick to rapping over guitar about getting laid and doing drugs, definitely not the peak of music. But pretty fun for some of it.

Very of its era

A bit of a groove. I want to dislike it but it's actually pretty good.

It's no Rage Against The Machine, but kinda fun

OK. At last something genuinely interesting. Rap with guitars! I really liked this.

This album kicks ass! Perfect mix of metal/rap/blues/etc

Surprisingly great choruses for a rock album. Thoroughly enjoyed something that I would otherwise not listened to.

I want to hate this. But I don’t. Even though it’s such stupid music.

que buenas rolas we ouhh!

dumb but fun, 4 stars

I like Kid Rock for his political beliefs. Not too big on his music. The hits? Ya those work but everything else just doesn’t flow with me. This is an ok album, held afloat by the hits. Choice cut: Only God Knows Why

It's ok

06/27 Not bad, but not really my kind of music

Wtf

Useamman biisin kohdalla saa pään nyökkäämään joka indikoi, että ihan tykkään. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ihan jees kamaa, tämä sentään oli vaihtelevaa toisin kuin moni muu saman aikakauden räppilätty

It's hard to put aside the feelings for the horrible person he's become but parts of this album and the rock/rap combo still gets me moving. Then White Boy Black Girl at the end reminds me how bad he can really be. Heavily mixed feelings

It’s a very fun record. The blend of country, in metal and hip hop works a lot better than it should on paper. Marks lost for the auto tune on Only God Knows Why.

Not bad actually. Not something I usually listen to, it’s giving a certain someone I know lol… but very cool instrumentals and quite different. Its rock, country and rap all in one. Very long album tho… they need to limit it to like 10 songs max.

Lite skränigt, lite tjatigt. Och Kid Rock verkar inte vara någon toppenkille. Men detta hade samtidigt något.

I really think this one was put on here to troll everyone. Kid’s lyrics are crap and his “flow” is the same on everything. Normally I would rate this a solid 2, however I have so many great memories from this period of my life that I associate with a couple of the songs on this album that I’m going to have to have some grace and award Kid 3 stars.

White-boy rap-rock. It’s OK!

на удивление бодрячком, при всём моём презрении к киду року. но эти буквы ключевой песни я так и не запомнила

I think this album’s rating suffers from being a less popular genre, and Kid Rock himself being a bad Tory gimp. Politics aside, it’s a decent listen, and very much of its time. Opening track is a banger.

beter dan verwacht, maar wel hoogtepunt van white boy rap dus ja

I remember when this album came out, one of the albums/artists that blended rock and rap

Time was when I'd lift weights in blue jeans with Fletcher in the basement of Hogan to this album at full blast.

sympa

5/6

3 stars because the music is 5 stars to childhood me but now adult me knows kid rock isssss ehhhhh

I was expecting a lot worse based on this being one of the lowest-rated albums on this site. As with the abominably low average score for Madonna's Ray of Light, I think a lot of users here are giving ratings based on what's 'cool' or 'uncool' as opposed to what they actually think... 3/5

Good mix of rock and rap... but I'm already fed up with it thanks to the Beastie Boys, so...

Kid rock is an asshole and this album is fine

Decent listen

It was so bad that it was actually kinda good

This is alright. 🤠

This was quite good, after reading all the negative comments, reminds me of Beastie Boys/Beck, too much use of the “F” word on every song though….

I don’t believe in the concept of music guilty pleasures. If you like something, there must be some redeeming quality to it that you shouldn’t be ashamed of. That being said….I feel a little embarrassed to still enjoy this album, especially the first two songs. Not sure 2026 Kid Rock would write a song about how great moving to California is but “Cowboy” is still a banger.

2.5 If I was drinking coffee I would have spit it out when Joe C came onto one of the tracks, forgot about that little guy. Kid Rock has absolutely no shame but I can admit there were some catchy songs, enough for me to finish the album the next day. I dont know how much Kid Rock contributed to the songwriting or production, but I thought it was pretty polished for how stupid it all is. He must have a bit of charisma to stick around all these years and latch on to whatever he can.

I Am The Bullgod

Day 197 I actually have quite a bit of nostalgic goodwill for a few songs on this album, remember downloading them from Limewire as a teenager, like Kid Rock himself, it’s definitely not an album that’s aged well but still some decent enough stuff on here. Highlights Cowboy I got 1 for ya Only God knows why

3/5

Kid Rock sucks but honestly this album is okay

Would’ve been four stars for the tunes, but damn some of those lyrics suck lol. -1 star

My original review still stands: "I can understand why some give such bad reviews, but it’s not really worthy of a 1. I’ve never really been into Kid Rock. He’s done some cool tracks, but nothing really new or genre bending. It’s not a bad record, some great riffs and vibes, but overall nothing special."

Her zaman dinlemem ama zevkli vi album

Some of it is pretty good, like a lesser version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but that annoying, sneering voice...

Dumb, lowest common denominator rap-rock. It doesn’t try to be more than this and mostly succeeds. Kid Rock is political now and easy to hate, but I have to give him credit for achieving fame and success with some completely ridiculous music. I think at some point he brags about “getting Matchbox 20 money.” Smooth.

Luckily I am a white male in 2026 so I allowed to listen to this album without worrying about masked acronyms beating down my door. It’s hard not to associate Kid Rock with his current right arm raising fanaticism. Time to bust out the telephone Time Machine and have Rufus send me back yo 1998! …Okay, I’m there. At a time when rap-metal, shock rap, and nu-metal were rampant, Kid Rock did offer a different sound by combining metal, rap and rockabilly together. He referred to it as the “Detroit Sound” but I always associated that with Motown or hard-core rap, which this is neither. There are some good songs, and early angry 20-ish me liked some of this album. Bawitdab was a fun but kind of dumb song with good beat and energy. I also liked Cowboy, with its hillbilly swagger. Fuck Off with Eminem was okay, but was a nod to their shared Detroit roots and not either of their best work. His bluesy ballad God Only Knows Why was pretty good save the autotune, which was in its infancy as a recording device, so he is forgiven. But even in retrospect his album represents his evolution: a self righteous hedonist who stole black music and religion to make a buck, and he made a lot of them. It always bugs me when artists proclaim moral fortitude while lighting their cigars on the ashes of faith. Maybe it’s just the ol’ Catholic in me. It was funny at the time. It plays a little different now….

Random thoughts: * I never really liked or listened to Kid Rock, so this was my first listen to a whole Kid Rock album. * I was familiar with Bawitdaba but not much else. * I can see he was stealing songs long before All Summer Long. Listen to Wasting Time and his lifting of Fleetwood Mac’s “Second Hand News” * this must have come out just a few years too late for me. Had I listened to this when I was 14, I would have loved it. At 22, I was too old already for this music. And now at 48, I’m way too old for this. * The beats and grooves were infectious but the lyrics, blech. * I always associated Kid Rock and Eminem with Detroit. I didn’t know they collaborated ever. It was to hear Eminem pop up on “Fuck Off”. * this is an album for boys when they’re 14.

Follows a long tradition of white guy cosplay. I wonder if he gets sick of the act like Marilyn Manson. Some nostalgia.

Certainly a vibe just not mine

Cringed a bit when I saw this, but upon listening, the music isn't <i>that</i> bad. The lyrics, however, leave something to be desired. Kid Rock's voice is reasonable, but what he talks about is very basic and appeals to a specific demographic. Lots of partying, debauchery content, which is fine, but this is not what I would listen to for partying. I'm also reminded by how old this record is, and it fits the mold of this era. It's alright.

Trailer pop

Never thought I would complete a kid rock album in one listen but I actually enjoyed it. Didn't pay any attention to the lyrics but some of these tracks are catchy.

That last track is terrible man... the rest of it is great rap rock giving it 3*

Fun turns of phrase and intense pulses of energy.

Not bad