Devil Without A Cause

Irony is having the lyrics “I’m self-made” and “I see through you” on the same album when coming from Kid Rock’s background. Objectively, this just doesn’t age well, even the autotune sounds terrible. Were Bawitdaba and Cowboy popular in the late 90s? Sure. But so was a lot of other weird shit. Other than those two songs, I can’t see a reason this made the list. Picture is the only other Kid Rock song I care to hear in my life, but he’s going straight to Do Not Play on Spotify. Kid Rock is a terrible human being.

Picture it: Fairview, North Carolina in the year 2000. I'm 7 years old and my best friend lives in a trailer park walking distance from where I live. His dad wasn't around very often, but anytime he was he was showing us something that he probably shouldn't have. This was usually excessively violent movies or some sort of drug paraphernalia. I'll never forget the day that he showed us the Kid Rock - Cowboy / Trigun AMV. I was 7 years old looking at big titty anime ladies trying to figure out what "Ima head out west with all of the women equipped with fake breasts" ment. It's a core memory that still sticks with me....... My friends dad died of a heroin overdose 1 year later. Seams on brand for a Kid Rock fan.

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

I can’t

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

Music for r*tards

Surprised I could understand a single word he said, with his head so far up Trump's bum.

Do we really need country rap ?

no. not even once.

no. fuck him -5

I know I’m supposed to hate him because he’s maga, but honestly it doesn’t sound all that different from the Beastie Boys to me. The song Cowboy is I think where the “I want to be a cowboy baby” vine comes from. I do think the lyrics are a little dumber/grosser/more religious, but he was clearly respected enough at the time because Eminem is on one of the songs. That said, I still won’t be listening again

Some truly cringe shit. And the songs that are slightly better are still shit

The only reason I'm giving this a 2 instead of a 1 is that SOME of it was at least slightly enjoyable, albeit not very much. I was really hoping for more but this really didn't do a lot for me. All I could think was I'd rather be listening to Rage Against the Machine if I'm looking for rap metal.

never been more afraid whether my headphones are connected while listening at work or not. How is this album an hour and 11 minutes long

Rage Against the Machine if the Machine was impoverished hispanic immigrants and transgender people

The author of this list is a moron

Music for idiots

Yeah, this is pretty terrible with very brief glimpses of fun. I can't even tell if this is supposed to be ironic. I'm guessing probably not

no!

How did this happen? I don't mean how did this get on the list, but how is this even a thing in the first place, why does it exist? I would prefer a world where this never happened at all.

wow. top tier shit

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

this may genuinely be the worst album i have ever listened to and i don't have a single good thing to say about it. cowboy was the only song i didn't absolutely despise and i still did not like it

"i don't steal from the rich and give to the poor / i take from my bitches and give it to my whores" thank you kid rock, real american patriot poet right here. i can't even be mad about how terrible this really is because it's hilarious.

Better than I was expecting!

Flicked through just to confirm it was a no with every fibre of my being

Fuck that shite

Why do we have to listen to this before we die? I honestly think this is the worst thing I've listened to. Absolute unadulterated horse cum

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.

Fuck this fucking fuck

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.

im from tel aviv and this is my favorite ablum

I was wondering why this has such a bad ratio since the first couple of tracks are listenable: the guitar riffs are good and while the vocals aren't as good as The Beastie Boys or Rage Against The Machine they still kept me interested. And then I looked him up and oh god is he an instant 1. Kid Rock is nothing but an ass kisser and fakest man alive. Most recently, he's been sucking Trump's cock by playing at that Turning Point USA and meeting with cabinet members, clearly in support of them. He denounces democrats but then, years back, was seen supporting Obama, Bush, and Clinton? And then there's that whole Bud Light controversy where he shot at cans of Bud Light after they aired a commerical with a transgender influencer, saying "Fuck Dylan Mulvaney" before supporting a brand partnered with Caitlyn Jenner?? And then being spotted only a couple months later he was spotted drinking Bud Light???? Mf can't even commit to being a fucking dumbass bigot let alone commit to his music. -5/5

Ugh

It’s crazy to think that people actually listened to this at one point. I listened in secret so I wouldn’t get caught listening. The arc of his career is unbelievable.

4.5/10

This sure isn’t a much liked album on here. Not an American but aware of his politics which presumably has something to do with it. But then heard the music which is based on that said persona, and to be fair to the detractors he appears to just be a fake act in that he was not street or country but rather from a fairly affluent background. Not really aware of his music, guess from hearing this it’s rap rock with a toe in country and not very subtle in its methodology to get there. From the wiki, appears was more rap but added the then popular nu- metal, he wasn’t the first and it was definitely done better, maybe for him it was natural development or cynical cash grab, as his background was fake guessing at the latter but who knows, it worked anyway. He just seems to be one in a long line of singularly brand driven showmanship, living up to an image, which I am fine with but I’m not the target for his brand so it does nothing for me. It’s very teenage in its demographic, all empty swagger n such, confrontational just for the sake of being so. All the usual bravado, American exceptionalism, hubris, arrogance, swearing and trite vocabulary because that’s what we do, etc etc. with the rock being identikit 90s metal and the country 90s stadia ballads, empty and dumb. If I have memories of hearing this as a teen it might have a touch point, but I don’t- so it just a dumb rapping rock record, with little subtlety, limited nuance. That it has its place in the wider picture fair enough but I can’t say I enjoyed. Don’t like his shtick and what he’s selling. So musically, dumb, vacuous empty calories, cynical; rap(tick) metal (tick) country ballad (tick) - but there is worst, and worst on here 2 Star, though when got to the song fuck off, exactly I will, really Eminem, lean into that shit persona, that is cheap shit - actually any positives I had like the man says can fuck off, puerile, cheap crap, this is actual garbage - 1 Star

lol wut

Kid Pebble making the suckiest of music

It was shit in 1998 and it's even worse now. Country Vanilla Ice meets Limb Bizkit.

Why

Not very good at all - often just seems to be chanting syllables. Not rock, not rap, not good.

La primer canción me gustó pero después fue rap que no le gustó. 3/10

Yelawolf

To quote E-40, “nope!”

Can't believe I bobbed my head to the first 15 seconds of this. Kind of wanted to make it through the whole things because it's impressively bad. Could not and would not. Probably the worst album on this list so far. RYM: N Saved a song: N

Average

Confusing. I liked the music but the lyrics are dumb and offensive and junior school level. Also the man is a massive bellend.

I couldn't endure this. 1.5/5

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Although I think I probably would have quite liked this in my mid-teens, so I don't want to slam it too hard as that would be hypocritical. I quite like most of the beats, however it's overlong and the subject matter and tone of the lyrics is awful. Terribly dated and another example of how this list differs from a "best 1001 albums".

What a terrible album. I can see how some people may enjoy the first track on the album, it's definitely got that nu-metal feel, but the rest of the album hardly matches its energy. The worst track was probably "Welcome 2 the Party" which sounded like a parody of 80s rap. The highlight of the album was Eminem's verse. Also lyrically? Ew. I would rate it 2 for just the music, but since the cowboy pimp act wears thin, especially considering he's a rich yankee. I'm going to give it a 1. Fuck Kid Rock.

I think this is the one album that met my expectations on how much I would hate it. Judged it as soon as I saw “Kid Rock”. I want my 70 minutes back.

Didn't listen...not gonna give him the time of day

Just plain bad could not finish the whole thing but heard enough to rank

I’m doing something I haven’t ever done, and will try to never do again, with this list - rate an album without listening to it. I refuse to give this idiot a second of my life. I have no idea why this is on the list. I would put it on a list of 1001 albums to make sure you avoid for your entire life, but that’s just my opinion. I wish I could rate something 0 or a half a star.

I like Kid Rock notwithstanding the fact that he shields for the orange menace; that said, this album sucks

Listenable, maybe a plausible plastic ripoff in 1998, but almost 30 years later it's just the sound of fash. Junk. Fuck nazis.

so bad it made me reevaluate the way I rate albums like THIS is a true 1, maybe I've been too rough on all those other records I gave 1's to

Almost alright in it's time. Hasn't aged well.

Yuck. I’m a huge proponent of separating the art from the artist, but recent activity and politics aside, I can’t shake the feeling that kid rock is doing a dorky Eminem cosplay. Also I’m normally impressed by albums ahead of their time, but this has got to be one of the first county rap fusion albums and that is an unholy marriage that should never have escaped the abyss.

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

So much edge, I almost came in my pants. In all seriousness, this sucked. It's so fake and gratuitous, even Pamela Anderson's tits blushed (sorry for the stray Pam, you're so much better than this). I was actually angry that I was upping Kid Rock's listens count. Knowing this was popular helps me understand why we elected Trump a 2nd time. In a non-cursed universe, the record exec tazes Kid Rock and his producer rather than putting this into production. I fucking hate it here

Best Track - "Devil Without A Cause"

⭐ Dålig rap, töntiga texter, Nu-metal. Detta är skräp! Vad gör detta album på en lista över 1001 album du måste lyssna på??? Tar emot att spela albumet i Spotify och därmed ge streams till denna artist. Hade aldrig lyssnat på detta album om det inte vore för att jag vill fullfölja listan. Nu har jag lyssnat på och kommer aldrig göra det igen, det blir en 1a.

Nope, not at all. Quite literally some of the lamest shit out there.

Well, that was awful.

It's not that I didn't want to play it (I mean, in fairness, it is partly that), it's more that I simply can't. I brought it up in Apple Music, went to press play, and my finger just... stopped. I tried pulling the phone towards my finger, but again, like opposing magnets, I just couldn't make contact. Then, when I brought it up in YouTube, I just fell to the floor shaking, vomiting and crying, and I found myself overwhelmed by an all encompassing despair for the future of the human species. My instincts in these matters are generally pretty reliable, so I decided it was probably best to just move on and hope that tomorrow's record isn't a horrible dollop of shit by some vile, witless, dick.

Haemorrhoids are more entertaining than this.

Gets an extra star for “Bawitdaba” which has a knuckleheaded energy to it that is hard to deny - though whenever it starts playing I do wish I was listening to “Down With the Sickness” instead. Apart from that, an abject and awful record. The dregs of classic rock sloshing around underneath interminable lyrics, all delivered with a lack of any insight or authenticity.

Surprisingly listenable. I wonder if to some people this is what rage against the machine sound like. Still terrible (for me)

Fuck all the way off with this rape ass MAGA Nazi bullshit.

The reviews seem to be split between people giving it one because they don't like it, people giving it one in part because they don't like him and 5s because they think it is ok but like him. Firstly, I'm British and my only experience of Kid Rock is "All Summer Long" which is a sampled song and is ok. This album at best is cringey. The lyrics are horrendous and like teenager would do in their bedroom. He seems to try and replicate lots of different artists but does it really badly. There are also loads of samples from lots of better songs. I went in with an open mind, but it was hard work and thoroughly dislikeable, I suppose in some respect, like him.

Best Song: Only God Knows Why I listened to this enough in college because my roommate was really into it. It sucked then as much as it sucks now. Kid Rock is a silver spooner cosplaying as white trash to take the money from the hillbillies. I didn't even want to give him the pennies of streaming this. I remember enough of this terrible album to not need to relisten. It's an easy 1/5 for me.

Kid rock rocks!

Didn’t like an had to skip a lot, only God Knows Why was ok if wasn’t so auto-tuned. Black Chick White Guy was ok.

sympa

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

The actual music was okay I suppose maybe a 2/3 but kid rock can piss off

5/6

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

Not sure how this could have made the list. Maybe it would have been slightly less annoying if I wasn’t thinking about his politics the whole time

I didn’t have much enthusiasm going into listening to a country rap album. All they needed to do was throw in some disco to hit the trifecta of my favorites. At any rate it did suck just like I thought it would.

1 star for trailer park Bob

Holy fuck is this worse than I remember. This was the first burned CD I ever had. When I was in high school, this one rich kid was the first to have a CD burner, and he was trying to sell a copy of that album for $5 to show his parents it was like a business. Nobody would buy it. I finally gave him a dollar to shut the fuck up and stop crying. It was the best and worst dollar I ever spent. I vastly overpaid, but it was worth it to make him quit whining. This album is just so stupid. Music for slobbering mouth breathers. The absolute worst lyrics in this entire project. F- and 0 stars.

Makes me feel like I have meningitis.

Sorry. I can't overlook his ultimate doucheiness. He sucks.

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

De Hund isch so en goof. Ha e Stund glitte. Hät d Streams nöd verdient. Wird vermuetlich mis erste und letzte 1 si, will niemert topt de Dünnschiss

Hahahahaha. Hans nd emal durchs album gschafft

This one takes me back. I was a rock/rap/nu metal fan back in the day (still am) and this was a fun album. That said, he's a giant piece of shit and there are some instances where I can't separate the art from the artist. Fuck this guy.

no es mi tipo = mierdaa 1/5

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

Skippin this one lol

I’m with Joe!

lol what's this loser doing here?

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

Nah, I’m not giving this idiot money.

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.

Fuck MAGA, listened to Bad Bunny instead -47/45

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

Fuck off

Einfach nur Mist!

Horrible

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

Bawitdaba will always be a banger, and I’ve always liked Only God Knows Why.. that said, I wish this fucking idiot would disappear into his own asshole. The world would be better

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????

rap, rock,

This album is just Beck for people who haven't found out about Beck... Even if I rated without knowing what's up with Kid Rock these days, I would still just say go and check out Limp Bizkit, or Beck, or Eminem. Also, just a very bad taste was left in my mouth from the last song, where he just straight up says the N-word, and just makes a racist ass anecdote. Abstaining from saying a favorite track cuz yikes...

Politics aside (I am not an american), that sounds just boring, like a bad version of Limp Bizkit or whatever

Ongeïnspireerd samenraapsel van gepikte muziek ideeën. Slechte plaat

Ik luister ni nr maga retards

a 40ish minute album might have been enough for me to sorta appreciate that kid rock just messily mashing up all his favorite music does result in something that feels fairly authentic and idiosyncratic (tho for a supposed hip hop head he sure raps like rakim doesn't even exist yet) but 70+ minutes rly dilutes that feeling for an album that is bad for literally every reason you would guess it's bad before listening to it. the existence of this thing on the list at all is an increasingly infamous quirk of the 1001 book (its notoriety increasing as the very website im using has gotten more people to give the whole project a shot), and it is really funny to have this between all the sissy britpop. nothing at all to chew on musically tho unfortunately...im not a fan, but limp bizkit made this stuff seem easier than it clearly was

I hate this. He's a piece of shit. And if he was gonna make bad music he should have only ruined one genre instead of 17. Thank you and goodnight.

What a crock

A travesty of confused heterosexuality.

One good song

0 stars.

1001 albums to make you feel dead inside.

Day 78 and the second album I could get to the end of. Complete pish

Kid rock is an asshole and this album is fine

Decent listen

Rap

I remember listening to this album as a kid thinking it was great, now I'm just like meh and it has a couple of good songs, just different likes now lol

This sounds like it belongs on a smackdown vs raw ps2 soundtrack

Not as bad as people make out. But very cheesy.

Do you think Shakespeare wished he could write poetry this beautiful?

For what it is, it's very good. But the genre (rap rock) tends to not be great, so it's a low bar. If you've had a few beers and want to put on a "redneck, shit-kicking rock 'n' roll rap" album, this would be a very good choice. But... yeah, most of the time, that's probably not what you're in the mood for. (If you're making a list of albums a person should listen to, I might well include this even though it's only 3 stars: it's a good exposure to the genre.)

A tragedy

Absolutely no rizz

I hate this, I hate everything about this, I feel dumber for listening to it, I wish I could rate it 0 stars and may god have mercy on our souls.

This album is like 'painting' a canvas with explosive diarrhea. You might find some artistic quality in it if you can stomach to look close enough, but the material is still 100% made of shit. Honestly, not quite as bad as I expected from reading the reviews. In hindsight, what else can you expect from an "American rapper" who calls himself "Kid Rock", releases an album that has to be categorized as "Nu Metal", and says "I want to be a cowboy" on a track that is seen as being instrumental in the development of the fusion genre country rap?

I am really happy I listened to this, so I can say that while I obviously disagree with Kid Rock politically, his music also sucks. This is Limp Bizkit, but somehow worse. His lyrics are disgusting, his country rap style sucks, and this is just garbage. On a side note, Ill give it a half star because the backing band is pretty good, but Kid Rock ruins it everytime he opens his mouth. Liked Songs: I don't think I liked any songs, but the instrumentals I liked were "Bawitdaba" , "I Am the Bullgod" , "Wasting Time" , "Fist of Rage"

loser 1

It was so bad that it was actually kinda good

Couldn’t get through more than 20 seconds I wish there was a 0 star option

This is alright. 🤠

Jedinica iz principa. // Ja otprilike mrzim ameriku kao jedan monolit, u smislu da ne mrzim ovog lika puno više nego bilo kojeg drugog genocidaša s ove liste. Tako da slušam relativno bez predrasuda. U prvoj pjesmi sam se malo prepala da ću imati nešto pozitivno da kažem, nije dugo potrajalo. Očaj teški kojeg je 99% plagijarizam i imitacija u kombinaciji s degutantnim tekstovima. Jedva čekam kolaps njega i njegovog cijelog društva.

I'm sorry...no Deftones on the list, but we have to endure this absolute disaster of a human being

Not my thing. A 2.

For the record; i hated this guy before it became fashion. I remember seeing him on mtv and i wondered what he had on the record company.

Not as bad as some people insist. It is pretty bad though. It's very dumb.

the beginning is there, the rest is a tumor and it makes shit shit, honestly I don't know how it ended up on this list now I'm going to de-infect my ears

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….

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

This is music for the type of person who thinks WWE is real.

I'm not even going to listen to this trash AND I'm still going to give it a 1. Because fuck no.

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.

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

-5

Unique mixes of sound. Party vibe

I went into Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock fully expecting to hate it and, if I’m honest, it didn’t take long to confirm that feeling. I tried to give it a fair chance and listen with an open mind, but it really does feel like over an hour of brash, wrestling-style rock. The album sounds incredibly dated, rooted firmly in that late-90s rap-rock crossover that hasn’t aged well. The lyrics are a real sticking point what might have been intended as humour comes across as crude, misogynistic, and ultimately pretty empty. Musically, there’s energy, but not much depth, and it quickly becomes repetitive. If this is considered a defining moment for rap-rock, it’s not exactly a glowing endorsement of the genre. There are fleeting moments where it almost clicks, but they’re few and far between. Favourite tracks: Wasting Time (just about) Least favourite tracks: Most of the album, to be honest Album artwork: Feels very on-brand, loud, brash, and not exactly subtle

facilmente a pior coisa que eu já escutei na vida deus sabe que eu daria tudo por uma máquina do tempo pra voltar 1h (!!!!!! 1 HORA NESSE LIXO DO CACETE) no tempo e nunca ter escutado essa porra, intuitivamente dando 1 estrela pq a figura kid rock me causa repulsa essa porra é tudo que eu detesto musicalmente!!!!! rap rock com riff de metal, country sem criatividade e o iniciozinho do nu metal (que na minha opinião nunca deveria ter existido) vai se fuder esse aqui me deu vontade de largar esse site

parece que o nu metal e o rap rock estão muito ligados. o que faz sentido, porque eu odeio bastante os dois. DE BRINDE uma pegada de country, que também não curto. esse aqui eh uma das pior coisa do mundo memo puta merda. 70 minutos dessa merda com esse fudido do kid rock se achando o maioral. música pra adolescente (com mal gosto) que queria quebrar tudo dentro do quarto mas não tem mta coragem. enfim. paia. entrou pro top 3 piores do site, pra mim. muito triste de ter passado por isso. se eu encontrar o robert dimery na rua eu dou porrada nele, que curadoria PÍFIA!!!!!!!!

I have not heard this album in many years. Even then, I did not intentionally listen to the album, as it was playing in the background while my college roommates and I were playing video games. It was the late 90's and early 2000's, what can I say? It's a common misconception that every artist important to a genre has to be represented in this book. This Kid Rock album is not an exception. I guess there is an itch of sorts this album scratches and I do enjoy "Only God Knows Why," which was a song that ended up being a hit for him and so Kid Rock decided he was going to pursue that direction in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Say what you will about Kid Rock, but he is excellent at determining which way the music winds are blowing and then moving his music in that direction. He did rap-rock in the late 90's, slowly moved towards a more traditional rock and country sound and now he's dropping "God" in his songs because that's where the money is at. I guess a person needs to hear this album, just in case they ever wondered what the high point of Kid Rock's recording career was.

I Am The Bullgod

The music is bad. The lyrics are worse. Why is this on this list?

Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause (1998) On Day 84, I approached this album with low expectations, and while the production initially caught my attention, a closer look at the lyrics significantly changed my perspective. Despite the strong influence from acts like Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and NWA, the lyrical content often feels shallow, crass, and lacking in substance, which undermines the album's potential impact. Tracks like "Bawitdaba" and "Only God Knows Why" have their moments, but the juvenile and at times offensive nature of the writing makes it hard to take the music seriously. Even the high-energy production and genre-blending can't fully compensate for the lack of depth in the lyrics. What could have been a bold, unapologetic statement instead feels more like a missed opportunity. Ultimately, while the album has its moments of raw energy, the poor lyrical quality drags it down considerably. A disappointing 1/5.

Fuck Kid Rock!

Man, it's been a long time since I've heard a Kid Rock album. I wasn't a huge fan of Kid Rock back when he was big, but I do remember enjoying Bawitdaba, Cowboy, and Only God Knows Why. I went into this album with an open mind (even though I 100% consider Kid Rock to be a shitty person), and I was pleasantly surprised with how enjoyable it was to listen to. The lyrics were mostly kinda meh, but the music, arrangement, production and recording were absolutely excellent, and the final product is nothing short of awesome. There were moments when I heard shades of Rage Against the Machine, which wasn't something I had ever though Kid Rock could achieve, and a taste of Insane Clown Posse from their Great Milenko era, which wasn't something I really associated with Kid Rock's sound before today. I was very surprised to hear Eminem's cameo, and of course his writing and rapping were amazing (and worlds above Kid Rock's too). I enjoyed the storytelling of Black Chick, White Guy, even if there was more than a bit of casual racism lurking in there. Overall, I can't really fault this album at all, and I give it five stars.

Absolutely horrible

If donald trump was an album

Sigh... I'm ashamed to say that I'm from the same state as Mr. Ritchie. Listen, I get it: Kid Rock fused hip-hop with rock and country. It didn't NEED to be done, but it was done nonetheless and thus I can see how this album would be considered "influential" in some regards given the similar acts that rose to fame in this little (but loud) sector of music at the time. I was exposed to this music growing up, but didn't really pay much mind to it as it was just there. However to this day, I know the kinds of people who STILL unironically listen to this type of music. To each their own I guess. I think almost everyone knows Kid Rock is a poser at this point, he's not fooling anyone with the character he raps as vs. his actual upbringing. But his attempts to be tender completely miss the mark in a track such as "Only God Knows Why", it's almost laughable. Put almost anyone else on vocals there and it's probably half-decent, but that doesn't excuse the songwriting. That track being sandwiched between "Fist of Rage" and "Fuck Off" is a funny juxtaposition too. It all just hasn't aged well. I'll hate all I want.

good

Typical late-90s (kid)rock, loud rap-metal with catchy vibe.

As I go through the to do list that is my 1001 list I have been strongly advised by Tim that Kid Rock is not cool

Don't mind some of what's happening here musically (could imagine some tracks on a Beck album, and Joe C is fun). But that voice, those lyrics, that attitude, that hair, that man - eurgh, eurgh, eurgh.

Rubbish

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!

The majority of the songs come off like wannabe Rage Against the Machine, except Kid Rock forgets to include any of the politically and socially conscious lyricism that makes RATM so compelling. The country rap songs (which I thought were supposed to be the hook of the album) don’t really stand out or have been done significantly better by other artists. So no, Kid Rock, you did not in fact “stomp all over you test of time.”

i just dont care. listened to half of this on youtube cus i dont want to give this dude streams on spotify lol. a messy album. i was vibing with the first song, beats are fun. but he's just a gross man. no thanks, i'll pass. 1/10

I'm not giving a single penny for streaming to this asshole. I've heard some of this album before and I don't need to revisit it. Pulling out "Not Gonna Listen" #3. Congrats, you're on a level with Kendrick and Kanye.

Did not listen. WTF is this doing on the list? Does this feature the song about having sex with underage girls?

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

One has to separate the art from the artist and I have been very rigorous in applying that rule, as my ratings for Morrissey and Miles Davis attest. But I have a limit. Quite aside from Rock's increasingly loathsome outlook on life, two words that should never be in the same room, let alone right next to each other, are 'country' and 'rap' - which fittingly portmanteau as 'Crap' (portmanteauing being the same reason why you never find RAP + Early Reggae together). 'Fuck Off' has to be one of the worst songs I have ever had the displeasure to have heard, ending with fake bullshit answer machine messages to try and sound like a hip-hop album. And the messages are his family quite reasonably asking why he's acting like such a dickhead - yet Kock revels in his obnoxiousness and thinks that makes him look cool. It may all have an ironic charm if we didn't know that Kock is being deadly serious about his pimpin credentials as attested by the album cover where he looks like the prototype for Andrew Tate. It's all vaguely upsetting.

I wish I could give it a zero

There was potential here for a quirky, fun album and then Kid Rock opened his mouth

I listened to enough of this garbage. Rap is bad enough without this asshat throwing his trucker hat into the ring. Wannabe cowboy rapper should’ve stayed home and lived off his parents’ wealth rather than leaving his brown stain on music. 0/5

Weeping sad soundtrack.

So I came into this biased, which I tried to avoid, but in the case of an artist like this, that's hard to do (God I'm going to seem like such a hypocrite when I get a Kanye album). Unfortunately, my attempts to be open-minded were defeated by how much I hated almost every part of this album. The pseudo-rebelliousness that Kid tries to portray in every song just comes off toothless and vague. Whenever he does get close to actually taking me aback or being crass, I find myself wishing that I was listening to classic Eminem or nu-metal. The main theme of the album seems to be how desperately Kid wants to have a hit album and get the respect he deserves, which is probably the reason why every song feels like sanitized rebelliousness. There's really nothing here to get excited about or be offended by. Favorite Songs: "Bawitdaba", "Fuck Off" (without that outro) Least Favorite Songs: "Cowboy", "Only God Knows Why", "Black Chick, White Guy" Mid 1.

Hard pass

Loud and boring. Considered whether it might be a 2 but the dude sounds like a dick.

Stop pushing the MAGA agenda on me!!! Also, what are these lyrics?

I refuse to listen to this piece of trash

2/10

There is some "music" in this album that is actually not that bad. Some is very bad. Most is mediocre. But, all of the lyrics and vocals are very bad, and it's just embarrassing and trashy.

We'll have the death, thanks.

No one needs to hear this before they die

Tried to spoof the form request that's made on these rating actions in order to override the 1-5 rating and give this album a zero, alas, they protect against that type of behavior so this album gets a 1.

How did this sell 14 million copies? I feel stupider for having listened to it. Made the Red Hot Chili Peppers look like poetic wordsmiths on the level of Stephen Merritt. Hated this even more than the two (dear God, why were there TWO?!) Slipknot albums we were subjected to. Not the first time I've wished we could award zero points.

Ugh! This is a tough one. Having grown up just south of the Detroit area, Kid Rock was huge around us. We listened to this album a lot. It was actually strange to listen to it again because all of the songs and a lot of the lyrics immediately came back. It's honestly hard to set aside what Kid Rock is today versus this album. And to reconcile what he claims to be about today versus what he was when this album came out (and the lyrics in this album). Having said all that, if I evaluate the album on its own, it was a good album for what it was and it definitely sort established a new style of rap.

I didn't like this album. Everyone that did rap/rock during this time feels like they did it better. Either the music was better or the lyricism. This is just mostly bad music that plays to the lowest common denominator. Songs about debauchery whit rhyme delivery that is copy pasted from a decade prior. The stories, when they are offered, feel forced and don't pan out well . I'm giving it a 2 because some of the songs work ("Bullgod" sticks out) but it's mostly just bad music. Funnily enough, the album came up right after Fear of a Black Planet. 2/5

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

Oozes an aura of insincerity. Not particularly heavy or groovy, lyrics are incredibly uncreative and offensive in the least tasteful way possible. It seems like he thinks people don’t like him for his profanity, but in reality it’s just because his music is pathetically garbage. 1 star for the king of chuds.

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

Bro wants to be the beastie boys but he’s a hick and makes bad music. A few songs were catchy at the absolute best

I genuinely believe that this guy should kill himself

pretty close to the end. giving this a 5 unless he says the n word

A couple decent tracks but it’s too long.

I'm glad I've now heard the most patriotic lyric of all time: "Where u at?" "Over there with a bad attitude 'cause I just don't care"

Ik heb een heel betoog geschreven over hoe je de persoon moet scheiden van de muziek bij Kanye West, maar Kid Rock heeft niet My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy gemaakt. Wat hij wel heeft gemaakt? Een soort supergefrustreerd boos, witte mannen 'hiphop' countryrock album. Je ruikt bijna de Monster energy drink, dit is muziek voor knulletjes die in een truck rijden en hun vrouw/vriendin/moeder slaan. Blijkbaar is dit de start geweest voor het Country Rap genre. OK? Was dat een hoogtepunt in de muziekgeschiedenis? Niets op dit album doet mij echt beseffen dat het goed is dat het bestaat, en het is al helemaal niet nodig dat dit album een belachelijke 72 minuten duurt... Nee, ik heb dit echt geprobeerd een kans te geven, zelfs al vind ik de persoon Kid Rock een van de domste personen ooit. Maar een dom persoon kan nog steeds prachtige muziek maken, denk ik althans. Dit daarentegen? Nee dit is rap op het niveau kindergarten, de beats zijn vooral hele harde scheurende gitaren en ook niet echt onderscheidend. Dit voelt als de blauwdruk van Nu-metal, en dat is een van mijn meest gehate genres. God, wat een lang klote album is dit zeg... Oh mijn god en dan komt Only God Knows Why... een ballad, EEN FUCKING BALLAD. Nee, dit album verdient de 1 die het gaat krijgen, ik heb het een kans gegeven maar dit is gewoon troep. en dan moet ik nog 4 nummers met een laatste nummer dat 12(!!!!!!!!) minuten duurt. FAVO:

Full transparency, I'm having trouble separating the art from the artist on this one. I was familiar with the singles. They were heavy on radio rotation for a time. Fun but dumb songs. That was what I always assumed a Kid Rock album would be, but I never felt the desire to listen on my own. Honestly, the music itself isn't terrible. Some good samples blended with decent beats and serviceable guitar work. The lyrics and content though are so sophomoric. Kid Rock wants to present himself as a trashy asshole and he is succeeding. Yet, he constantly contradicts this self-image: he only has eyes for one woman, and all his hoes; he's the pimp with all the riches, and only gets paid nickels; the ultimate poor country redneck that struggled and made his own way when his real life background includes being raised on a property with it's own apple orchard and horses. The imagery is repetitive, misogynistic, and generally what a middle school bully would spout while trying to sound hard. Bawitdaba Cowboy

I don’t really want to talk about this

Garbage

Aged like milk.

Muito ruim.

3/5

Earworms and nostalgia save this pile of crap from a one star rating.

I’ve listened to every song on every album so far including tubular bells and bjork but I just can’t for this one. Listened to half. Its just garbage.

Being honest, there’s some catchy shit here. It’s shit, most certainly but better than a 1

I would rather listen to bjork cover yoko ono while putting my dick in the garbage disposal than listen to the trash

Mr. Ritchie: Zero point zero

gross

Uh, no

No

(1/7) this guy should play at the super bowl or something

çok böyle bi "killing in the name of" vibes ama değil garipli

As a 911 dispatcher, I once had a lady put the phone on speaker and proceed to have the most violent diarrhea imaginable without any warning. I would rather listen to that.

There's a few things that instantly make an album a 1 for me. This album makes me uncomfortable. I don't care about the politics in this review. I'm just rating the music. This is awful. Might be the worst album I've ever heard. I don't hate everything about it. I actually like Bawitdaba. It's not bad, if only a little cringe. Cowboy is fun, but the lyrics deprecating women is not my style. I just don't vibe with that lifestyle. (Kid Rock definitely isn't the worst one when it comes to that either. It's way too prominent in rock and rap). Also, so many lyrics about drinking and smoking. It gets annoying. I like listening to music that is relatable or universal. If it isn't relatable, I should be able to put myself in the shoes of the narrator and not feel like a creep. I really don't mind this being a Kid Rock album. He has some good music, but this is just terrible. I gave Korn a 1 for very similar reasons. This genre is very polarizing for me. You can have a fun, sexual, weird, and good album. Early Red Hot Chili Peppers is a great example of that, although this album is more metal than that. This just doesn't make me want to continue to listen any more.

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.

WTF is this? Would give zero stars if I could. Pure garbage. Quick Google search and Kid Rock has written some very questionable content. Don't waste your time

Kid Rock sucks but honestly this album is okay

Whichever reviewer said “I would rather be deaf than listen to this” was really on to something…

Is there a score less than 1 star

Is it possible to rate zero?

Not a fan

Absolute shit

Not good, couldn't finish

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?

Fuck Kid Rock

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

This album sucks. Kid Rock is a douche and he’s only gotten worse. I would rather listen to The Black Album.

Man this was rough to get through. This is the music that the rich kid who went to your high school makes to seem tough, but they're too dumb to realize everyone is laughing at them.

Fuck this guy

Wish i could give zero stars

Pretty difficult to get into an album celebrating statutory rape and racial slurs. I see it’s unique in the sense of it’s genre as cowboy nu metal / trash-hop. Very depicting of an era of influence over of American pie loving Gen X men. It’s not a guilty pleasure- it’s just guilty and ears want to press charges.

Honestly I wasn't the happiest chap getting this one on the list lol, I really didn't want to listen to it but I did because I didn't want my judgement cloud my review. I genuinely really liked the opening track 'Bawitdaba' was fun and heavy - I think the best singing on the album was in this song by Kid Rock and on other tracks the backing singers made the songs. Fist of Rage was also kind of a different track on the album(?) reminded me of Rage of the Machine, kind of. The Auto-Tune on 'Only God Knows Why' did break up the album with something different. The lyrics were also rough to listen to - like all of it, certainly not the most inspiring. It just isn't what I'd ever choose to listen to - will probably listen to 'Bawitdaba' again but not the rest. I feel kind of dumber for listening to this hahah

This had potential to be good, but didn’t live up to it. I like genre-bending, but this feels too try-hard.

Yes Kid Rock is a terrible person, but have you also considered that he’s a terrible musician? You probably have because of course his music is terrible

Bootlickers Anthem

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

Fuck Kid Rock.

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

Lyrically pretty garbage. Catchy at points? Nostalgic for some one who heard some of these songs on the radio? Maybe. Still pretty garbage

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

Strong start, fell off a cliff then factor in the art vs artist debate

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."

So terrible, they should drag Kid Pebble to The Hague for crimes against humanity.

f him

Well, it's certainly something. Nu Metal is reliably shit and Kid Rock isn't that good at it. No picks, just happy to have it over with

fuck you kid rock

Denied.

Vypočul som si to. A stačilo mi to raz.

I almost gave this a sympathy 2 for Joe C, but then I heard that last song. Then it snuck an identical version of Bull god into the end. Gen X is sorry about this

Fuck maga

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.

The only Kid Rock song I want to listen to is All Summer Long, and that's basically just Sweet Home Alabama. This doesn't start horribly tbh. Song one and two are fine. By song 6 I detested the man. Shut up!!! Songs added to playlist: - Bawitdaba - Cowboy

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...

I thought nostalgia for the few hits might carry this a bit, but even the hits were better in the past. Sounded like he so desperately wanted to be cool by being edgy. As the kids that was cringe

So, obviously this is a one, but it's more for the cretinous lyrics than the music. Musically, while I don't like Devil Without A Cause I do at least think it is significantly better than Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.

OG rap-metal, alright! Ik fuck heavy met de low-tuned guitars en aggressieve rap. Ik fuck minder met de country en pogingen tot classic hiphop. Veel van de gangster rap lines komen ongelofelijk cheesy over from his white ass. De plotse Eminem cameo was Wel geinig. Die domme phonecalls enzo konden me geen reet boeien en ruïneerden de album ervaring. Cowboy was ass, de autotune in z'n poging tot een gevoelig nummer was ass, maar de rest was wel hype. Voelde een beetje als het soort 90 hiphop waar Joey Valence & Brae nu callbacks naar maken. "I don't steal from the rich and give to the poor I take from my bitches and give it to my whore's" ... Really? No liked songs

There's some nice guitar work here but the majority of this album sounds like a parody station on gta radio

I mean, I don't like the guy, but I'm trying hard not to let my opinions on people (re: Kanye) affect my opinion on the art they create. That being said, this is the most vapid and hollow album I've heard in a long while. It's entirely meaningless and fully generic. Decent guitar work, though; it almost makes up for the literal actual racial slurs!

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.

I am very conflicted on this album (except the last track, that is straight trash). I was the perfect age for this music when it first came out and I have good associations with a number of the songs and my life at the time. On the other hand the artist has taken a hard turn into an area that I absolutely despise. Listening now I have both of these in mind and I cannot reconcile them. I think the bad outweighs any nostalgic good. Plus that last song ugh.

Pure, liquid shite for your auditory system

This album sucks and Kid Rock is a piece of shit, but 'Bawitdaba' slaps, unfortunately. Lowest of 2/5s

Trash from a trash human. Not listening.

I don't think it's possible to say anything funny or interesting about this album.

Okay, I was expecting this to be worse than it was. In a list with a lot of boring music, this is at least interesting. I was expecting the production to be bad, but it's great. The tracks are good, the hooks are solid, I imagine it turned out just the way Kid Rock hoped it would. I don't like NuMetal so doing it badly doesn't matter to me much but the soul and rap elements, they aren't good, but its an experimental fusion. Honestly it's between a 2 and 3, and if you told me that you were into this, I wouldn't think any less of you.

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

I don't think this is quite as deserving of the "worst album on here" as some other people do but it is pretty terrible. The idea of "country rap" should have died extremely quickly as absolutely none of it works, especially with a shit rapper like kid rock. Whatever Nappy Roots was doing is probably the real example of that. Kid Rock's rhymes are mostly generic or downright stupid; none of the lyrics are any good, though I will shamefully admit I always laugh at the line "all my heroes in the methadone clinic". The "rock music" aspect of this is quintessentially bad 90's, complete with turntable cuts that sneak through. "Welcome 2 the Party" is an attempt to recreate an 80's rap song but it is terrible; that style is gone for a reason and there's no way Kid Rock of all people is going to be doing it justice anyway. Attempts at being soulful are all universally shit; the only emotion he can really express is anger and even then it comes across as more of a brag than anything else. The songs go on way too long and the choruses all have these pre-hook loops that make them unnecessarily long. The whole album is unnecessarily long, we don't an hour of this. That's a lot of words to say this is bad. Is it the worst album on here? I don't think so. I'd rather be forced to listen to this than any of the 100 Nick Cave albums that are inexplicably in the list.

Listening to this makes me feel dirty that I gave it one additional stream on YouTube music.

I hate Kid Rock, but I am always nostalgic for the 90’s. I knew three songs on the album. One of them I swear I haven’t heard since prob 1999, and I remembered half the lyrics.

Slop. Kid Rock is as great of an artist as a mediocre high school band, and that would even be insulting to all high school bands out there. Maybe white incels or single dads think this is cool music, but it only exists as conservative slop who thinks mainstream music is too "woke". If I could give less than 1 star, hell, even less than 0 stars, I'd do it. Get this shit off the list, please, thank you. 1 / 10

Now that I'm older, I can see how stupid kid rock is Some stuff here is fun but not great

no

Come on man, the Limp Bizkit one was at least funny

I'm done with this fascist fuckin loser

7.5/10

Certainly a vibe just not mine

I’m gonna kill myself

His nerdy voice sounds like he's never experienced anything he sings about. He ain't no Hank Williams III. And his rapping comes off pretty lame as well. Lyrically poor and generally W E A K, it's barely saved from oblivion with the instrumentation and accompanying vocals but all in all it's just a frat boy's pool party album with Mr. Try Hard acting like he's some kind of hard man.

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.

Not really a Kid Rock fan

Trailer pop

I didn’t like the first song, but at least it had something to say artistically. But the rest of the album backslid into the same casual misogyny that pervaded this era.

"The song "Cowboy" is seen as being instrumental in the development of the fusion genre country rap." And it is for this reason alone that I bailed after the third track. What a bloody racket.

He seems like a bad hang

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*

The only possible explanation for this being in a book called 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die is if it is the last album you ever here because it makes you lose the will to continue living in a fallen world.

Starts of so energetic and heavy but devolves into pure vulgarity and boring production. Would have served much better as a single disc LP. Half full and half bad.

Upchuck the Boogie, Baby!

I did not need to hear this and my life remains unchanged after listening. The only people I know that like Kid Rock, unironically, are 45 years old or older, and they probably just enjoy him because of the nostalgia.