Reviews (page 5 of 9)
Why god?
Quite a vibe! Didn't expect it to be so fun.
Kid Rock has some talent and some decent songs on this album. However, this album was too long and too vulgar to get a high ranking.
This just didn’t feel or sound/seem right.
So like first half of the album passed and I was thinking this was gonna get a 4 but then there were just a few too many tracks that just made me cringe and then of course the 12 minute song at the end because why not.
uggggggghhhhhh. not a fan of lyrics at all. or his persona. only reason it's getting a 2 is due to music & the variety in sound.
Damn, Kid Rock is really THAT bad, huh?
Garbage man makes garbage music
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
No streams for fascist, misogynistic assholes.
Criminal that this should be on this list.
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
1. Bawitdaba - 10 Brilliant track. The verses are incredibly solid and the sound is just awesome. Absolute great deep and loud rock sound that was given a nice and length intro to build into. Superb way to open the album. 2. Cowboy - 9 Awesome sound. Everything about this track sounds and is placed perfectly. The background vocals add an amazing sound to dump out of the choruses. Kid Rock's flow is superb during the verses. The guitars and drums sound amazing. All around a great track. 3. Devil Without A Cause - 11 Great track. Amazing guitar underpinning each line of the lyrics, which have an impeccable flow. Opening verse is absolutely massive. Chorus is solid as well. 4. I Am The Bullgod - 8 Instrumentally fantastic. Lyrically it's very weak at times. The track comes and goes lyrically because of this between solid flow and very off lyrics. Overall not a bad track. 5. Roving Gangster (Rollin') - 5 Lyrcially very weak. The MC beatbox drop after the first portion of the track was fantastic. Instrumentally a strong track but the complete pause in the middle of the track was unnecessary and ruins a lot of the enjoyment of it. 6. Wasting Time - 2 Lyrically it's the weakest track so far. Background vocals that sing the chorus are the highlight of the track but overall it's not a great piece. 7. Welcome 2 The Party (Ode 2 The Old School) - 0 Instrumentally it's okay but lyrically this is absolutely horrible. 8. I Got One For Ya' - 3 Chrous is nice but the rest of the song lacks any quality. Verses are pretty weak. Instrumentally it's alright but the compliation feels a bit out of place compared to the rest of the album. Outro is also not enjoyable. 9. Somebody's Gotta Feel This - 4 It's an okay song. It's a little bit simple in the track's construction and overall that makes it a bit of a pass over track. Definitely a return to the kind of tracks the album has opened with. 10. Fist of Rage - 3 Exact same problems as the previous track only exemplified. Instrumentally a lot better however. Bridge is particuarly enjoyable. 11. Only God Knows Why - -1 Autotuned atrocity. 12. Fuck Off - 0 The great flow from the opening tracks returns but the lyrics are not up to snuff. The opening verse is like giving an edgy teenager a mic and telling them that anything they say is okay so they just say obscene stuff for the sake of pushing the envelope. The bridge is the same thing. Eminem is the highlight of the track. On top of that, the track should have ended 4 minutes in but then there's random voicemail notes on the end that are absolutely useless being on the track. 13. Where U At Rock - 4 Much better and a lot like the opening tracks. Has a pretty weak opening but if gets better lyrically the deeper you get into the track. 14. Black Chick, White Guy / I Am The Bullgod - 4 It's alright for a closing track. Bit too long and the song loses itself in the story at times before completely changing tone back to I Am The Bullgod. Average Rating: 4.43 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.21 Rounded Down: 2 Stars
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I enjoyed Bawitdaba a bit in my younger days but it’s about half way through Cowboy when you realize what a disaster this album is going to be. Some real cringe here and very few redeeming elements. I’m being generous here with the score.
nah dawg
Fuuuuuuuckkkkkk.... I knew this day was coming and I still was scared to hit play. Why did I have to listen to an entire fucking Kid Rock album before my death? THIS IS FUCKING GARBAGE!! Okay, let's start by playing a bit of devil's advocate. Kid Rock is a fairly influential artist... to all of the wrong people. His music helped pioneer country rap, which gave us the shit that plagues the country genre in the present day that I loathe. Anything that reminds me of that shit loses points immediately. So, it's not like there's no justification at all for this album's inclusion... is what I would say if the album had any redeeming qualities. The problem is that it doesn't! This may genuinely be the worst album I've listened to for the entire album project. Why is that? Let me fucking tell you! Let's start with instrumentals. They're whatever. A lot of it hinges on samples. Even the fairly popular opener "Bawitdaba" has its non-verses taken from other songs. I'm not against sampling or interpolation in music, but nothing interesting is done with it here. It's like "Wow. You have a Fleetwood Mac sample. Cool, I guess. Why though?" Still, the instrumentals are probably the least bad thing about the album. Everything else? Where do I begin? Kid Rock's vocals are atrocious here. The loudness of it hurts to listen to. The production doesn't do him any favors. Who did the production anyway? Oh, it was Kid Rock himself. Of course. But yeah, I don't like his voice. His rapping is very rudimentary. It kind of reminds me of cheesy 80s hip-hop but more angry. Not a fan. And don't even get me started on the fucking autotune in "Only God Knows Why." That song could be okay. It sounds decent and the writing isn't nearly as bad as the rest of the album. But they just HAD to ruin it with the autotuned vocals. I'm not against autotune when it's used well, but it is not used well here. Bad song. Speaking of writing, it fucking sucks! It's the worst part! Why is he introducing himself so much? What's with the blatant misogyny? Why the FUCK does he say the N word on the last song? This album just feels wrong for me to listen to. Is it because I know that this man goes on to dick-ride a fascist? Maybe. Is it because I hate anything that even remotely resembles Florida Georgia Line? Maybe. I don't think it's those though. I think the album just sucks. Somehow, I don't think I've made it clear enough how much I hate this album. Listening to this makes me feel like a wife-beating drunkard who watches Fox News. I hate it. Fuck Kid Rock and fuck you if you like this album. I don't trust people who unironically enjoy this man's music. I probably shouldn't be saying that, but Kid Rock probably shouldn't be saying half the things he says, am I right? This is the fucking worst thing I've heard in my life. 1/5. I'd give it a 0 if I could.
Not worth even listening to. Fuck Kid Rock!
You say "fusion genre", I say "a mess of styles". Almost all the songs feature some combination of rap lyrics, heavy rock riffs, and then country and western sounds. It's very noisy and hard to listen to, hard to get a handle on. It's very hard to tell how much or if this guy is taking his bragging seriously. I found some moments of amusement in the lyrics, but I'm not sure if I'm laughing with him or at him. I think he is probably for real, which is a little tragic, but the final verse of Welcome 2 the Party is so hilariously crass that I can't help but smile: "Kid Rock and I'm the same old fool I'll tell ya to drop your boyfriend then drop outta high school I got a whirlpool, don't even ask Lickin' pussy underwater shootin' bubbles up your ass I'm so crass that I'm the last of my kind ... I don't steal from the rich and give to the poor I take from my bitches and give it to my whores" Only God Knows Why is one of the most manufactured, over-produced things I have heard, with obnoxious autotune and embarassingly faux-authentic lyrics, he's really trying to make us think he believes in what he's saying, but I don't buy it for a second. But overall, I have hated albums much more than this. Is it worth 2 stars? I don't know. I think I was really laughing at this more than I was enjoying it. But I did enjoy it, at least a little bit.
2/10
Terrível. Este disco exala uma energia pútrida. Pra começar com a mesclagem de gêneros. Eu gosto muito quando artistas experimentam com a interdisciplinaridade musical, mas nesse caso, é de péssimo gosto. São os piores elementos do Rock Bunda misturado com os piores elementos do Rap anos 90. Ou seja, riffs patéticos, guitarras totalmente sem sal, ritmos toscos, rimas esdrúxulas, letras misóginas e excesso de palavrões que evidenciam o quão pouco o artista realmente têm a dizer. Também costumam dizer que existe uma pitada de Country na mistura, mas eu não achei. Talvez na estética? Sei lá cara. Têm uma canção que se fantasia de Country, mas é cheio de autotune e é executada de forma patética. Vai ouvir Johnny Cash, pelo amor de Deus. 1 hora de álbum? Uma hora inteira disso? Tortura, basicamente. Mas eu tive que aguentar. Em plena terça feira eu perdi 1 hora ouvindo esse lixo de disco. Não ouça, pule, não seja tolo igual eu. É muito ruim. Pobre em todos os sentidos. Tematicamente pobre. Liricamente pobre. Sonoramente pobre. Foi influente? Em tese, sim. Assim como Pol Pot foi influente. 0.5/5
Doe toch normaal.
I always knew this would happen someday and I was quite prejudiced towards this album, but it really is that bad. 1/5
Went in with low expectations but it was better than I expected, reminded me of RATM a bit. Not bad as a one off but probably won’t listen again
While his redneck pimp persona is fun for like one or two songs, after a whole album, it is so incredibly cringey. Like what a dork. Bars were hella weak too, like written by an elementary age kid
I mean, what are we doing here
I mean this is just fierce. So much force and energy from the go 🤟🏻 Probably bias as it accompanied my workout and fit very well. A little repetitive in beat, themes and groove but at least repetitively forceful. It kinda feels like the fun guy who bursts into the party with all the drugs and booze and some good chat. But then over time kinda get the picture and can begin to get a bit too much and trying. Still a guy to party with though. Probably. Oh Jesus. And then ‘Only God Knows Why’ with the auto tune. Tragic. (The acoustic guitar has come out at the end of the party). Good enough album. Pretty repetitive
I couldn’t finish. Just so dated and pandering, nothing musically interesting about it
Did Not Listen
Got halfway through one song…proud of myself
Great album. Kid Rock at his best. A long stretch from Devil Without a Cause to DJT.
I’m starting to question the validity of this list.
Rap mit Rock/Metal Einflüssen. Dafür, dass es nicht meine Musikrichtung ist, lässt es sich gut hören. Highlight: Ony god knows why 3/5
Pass.
Fuck Kid Rock
Next time I'll choose death thanks.
Took every ounce of willpower I could muster to listen to this and separate the artist from the man in the process. The rap rock sound is actually pretty good and the energy is undeniable. Still, there is an underlying element of Vanilla Ice in the rage and inferred victimization. Sure, the swing to country is readily evident and a choice Kid Rock made but, ultimately, this feels like the Kid's real name is Clarence.
This is bad. Worse than I remembered. It's like sonic Four Loko.
The hits are catchy. The vibe is douche-y.
Interminable. Insufferable.
He gets an automatic 1 for being a all around horrible excuse for a human. I would give him a zero if that were an option. No listening.
It pisses me off when stupid assholes get rich making bad music. Kid Rock is an ignorant, homophobic price of shit, and he doesn't deserve anything that he has. I don't care if this album is good or not. I don't wanna hear it. 1
Out of principle
The fact that this fucking album is not the bottom one but Einstürzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle are makes this website a joke. This album would be good if anyone else was working on it and just made different decisions because there are good people working on it but it just so happens to be in service of the most tacky mix of southern rock, rap rock and nu metal that I've ever come across, it's just not even fun anymore when the most fake guy imaginable tries to front as a deep south man and just looks extremely phoney in the process, he can't sing, he can't rap, he can't even make a decent hook with his voice so you just have this stupid album as torture that would make the CIA blush Just, no. Only God Knows Why is funny as hell tho
Horse shit
Absolutely fucking dreadful, how do I give this negative stars? Shit album topped off with a racist cherry right at the end
This was absolutely GASH.
Truly dreadful. My life was better before being subjected to this album
No.
Fuck kid rock, just awful
Fuck Kid Rock. He's a conservative asshole who promotes ignorance and bigotry.
Yuck.
Dear Aerosmith + Run DMC 'Walk this Way' and Beastie Boys: You owe us an apology. Signed, Everyone ever P.S. I feel really guilty even giving this douche one stream.
You couldn’t have paid me money in 1998 to listen to this, and I just did it for free and enjoyed much of it. 😂 Twenty five plus years later, I can appreciate that there is craftsmanship here and that he’s bringing together genres in ways that have since become standard. Plus, some of the songs are just good!
I obviously didn’t enjoy anything about this album, but it wasn’t actually as bad as I expected based on its reputation.
🖕
I did not want to give this assclown any streaming revenue, but figured I should give the album a fair shake since I hadn’t heard any of it since it was playing on TRL. It’s just as shitty as I remembered. BUT, I’d probably rock out to bawitaba if I was drunk at a townie bar, and for that reason alone I won’t complain about the lack of a zero star rating.
Yech. No thanks.
2/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: Only God Knows Why I could've died happy not listening to ts
Kid Rock can get stuffed.
If I could give this lower than 1 I would. This album is insulting to music and is bigoted in every sense of the word- only helen Keller could genuinely have a good experience with it
I seem to have some kind of soft spot on Rap-Rock? Nothing new or groundbreaking but not that bad like the global rating indicates. Sure too long. best known: "Only God Knows Why", "Bawitdaba", "Cowboy" 2,5
Fun!
I was once tempted to get a Kid Rock album based on one song. A friend said, "don't do it", and I respected his opinion enough to not but it based on one song. Years later, I don't think I can identify one song other than the first one on the album, which I don't think was the song I heard that intrigued me. So, after listening to this full album, I need to reach out to that friend and say, ..... thank you. I was considering a three after a few of the songs and then it grew painful. Irritating at times. So I'll give it two stars.
Country Rap by a redneck pimp.
Rap and music don't combine.
Did not contribute to his royalties.
Life is too short for this.
Obviously awful music made by awful people. BUT this was closer to a 2/5 rating than I had anticipated. There are some genuinely catchy riffs and choruses on Devil Without A Cause. Ultimately, what sinks the album is not Kid Rock's bigoted nature or immature lyrics, but his surprisingly awful technique when rapping. Weak sauce.
Surprised that this didn’t turn out to be the worst album on this list as I would’ve guessed - but fear, it’s still quite shitty. There’s a few catchy choruses and interesting hooks, but the overall vibe of the album is just off. It’s Rage Against the Machine for nu-metal country conservatives - that’s obviously not high praise. Of course it’s all almost excusable until “Only God Knows Why” comes along and ultimately seals the deal of this being a horrible release. Oh, and I haven’t even touched upon the fact that it is 71 minutes long !!! (imagine the numbers being in caps lock for dramatic effect)
Let's start off by saying this is not political. I dont really like kid rocks politics but that is not at all what this review is about. I hate thats where we gotta start but I have to cause it only gets worse from here. This fucking blows. It feels like a teenager decided he liked run dmc, southern rock but he thinks guns and roses is southern rock, and then rage against the machine made it ok for him to combine all that. It feels so unbelievably disingenuous the whole time. Im a suburban white kid, this is what id make if I tried to make trap music. It wouldnt sound right and no matter how many cosigns I would get wouldn't make it worthwhile. The only thing that sound genuine in the whole record, other than the closer which I do give some props to, is that he drinks, does drugs, and tricks women into sleeping with him. I believe that but nothing else. The opener to fuck you makes me sad generally. He can't call his mom, or his girl, just uncle kracker with some hoes. It just makes me uncomfortable dude. Like make yourelf the villain as a character, dont just be a shit person man. But sure the lyrics suck but the music though? Almost equally terrible. I was certain I would like cowboy or bawita whatever the hell cause I liked them when I was 8. But no. Its just bad all around. Generic bullshit. No bite to anything even though that seems to be the goal of the whole thing is to get a rise out of people but it does nothing even remotely interesting. I can hear all these sounds on other records done better. It feels like a cover band greatest hits. I hated really most of this. It didn't respect my time by being over an hour long. It could have been shit and at least got on with it. But no I have to suffer for that long. The whole thing just feels like he wrote these in his algebra class and still though they were cool when he turned 24 or however old this guy is. I will give some props for the closer cause it does seem to be real and genuine but I need to take them back again cause nothing else does and it feels like I met the dude for 4 minutes at the end after chopping it up for an hour. But damn if you love kid rock thats cool. I feel happy for you but please leave me out of it next time. You guys can like him over there and I'll be over here with anything else.
Hah, not many fans here! I thought BAWITDABA has some merit. Driving musical support.Not my genre, but again, I was able to listen for longer than anticipated thanks to the music, rather than voice and lyrics. WASTING TIME a nice upbeat melody. SOMEBODY'S GOTTA FEEL THIS reminded me of Deep Purple in Rock actually. But songs like WHERE YOU AT ROCK... make me lose the will to live
In a nutshell: the adventures of the "redneck pimp daddy" Kid Rock insisted that this album is not nu-metal. Bruh, IT IS! I noticed the RUN-DMC style rap rock and country touches, but come on. It's nu-metal too. Seedy and try-hard at that. I think it's in the book because it sold 14 million units and the album was a mix of genres that somehow worked. It has its fans. It's not for me. Overall: 1/10 (a point for enthusiasm and commitment)
Kid rock is a poser and isn’t a real artist 0 stars why is this even on the list
Would be at least 3 stars if he didn’t come across so phony on just about every track. 1-2 stars. Some are listenable but most make me cringe.
Maybe Kid Rock just gets crapped on because of his politics... Nope his music is just as bad.
The worst part is that I could see the appeal of some parts of this album… but everything else associated with kid rock and his lyrics solidifies the 1 ranking.
Fuck this magat.
This album works as a time capsule, filled with the most horrendous trends of the music from the 90's. I kept listening from start to finish because it was funny. Not fun, but funny, like LOL funny. I feel like something changed in me. it might have been my IQ.
so cool
Hard pass. Hated it then not listening to it again.
Not mad. Ana that one song was on all my warm up tapes in JuCo lol
Didn't listen
Hrozna prdel, numetal tyvole!
Wow, another no.......nope.....no
Don't know what to think of this.... is he just trying to create an image? Is he embracing the 'thug life'? It is schtick and very superficial.
If zero stars were an option. In what possible world is this one of the albums anyone must hear before they die. Death would be preferable.
What a clown.
Rocked rocked those days
Nah
Traaaaaash
Hard pass
This was definitely not as bad as I was expecting. The lyrics are pretty ridiculous for sure but other than that I mostly enjoyed it.
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.
Pretty good hooks and fun guitar riffs. Trash lyrics and verses. Still pretty nostalgic
I am dumber for having heard this
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.
Kid Rock ist scheiße, die Musik ist scheiße. Allerdings muss man im einen Gewissen Rhythmus eingestehen und das es nicht scheiße produziert ist. Von daher mehr als 1 Stern.
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".
new metal rap..beurk...3
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!
I'm straight up not having a good time right now.
Oh FUCK no
In a vacuum, there are some strong licks from a 90s we wish we could all forget before the Kid descended into madness.
Kid Rock was a lesson in patience, and I already have none on a good day. He has "mom look at me" energy that's so cringy. I mean, some of the songs were catchy, but it was more cringy than catchy. Yeah, Kid Rock was a pioneer for rap and country, but his music is not good, just like how a lot of early punk is pure garbage. The autotune on "Only God Knows Why" did not allow me to take him seriously when he was genuine. And I discovered I knew a Kid Rock song in "Cowboy," which was unfortunate for all involved. Let's leave the rap and country music to the Black people who created both.
The inclusion of this album, again, is an example of inclusion because of music history significance and not music quality. This album came out during, and arguably even influenced and helped form, the nu-metal/rock-rap craze. "Cowboy" is even historically significant in terms of pioneering country-rap, although really the entire album is presented through an intentional "redneck" lens. There's a bit of interpolation at play on this album, too. Kid borrows from the likes of Soundgarden's "Spoonman" and Fleetwood Mac's "Secondhand News" for "Roving Gangster" and "Wasting Time", respectfully. Here's the thing. I will be brave and admit that at least a couple of the songs on this album are pretty catchy. The album as a whole is not as bad as some reviewers have made it out to be (in my opinion), but it is certainly far from worthy of this list.
lol ew
So, so long, marred by mystifying production choices, and stuffed with so much posturing it’s kind of embarrassing. I’d compare this unfavorably to Beastie Boys and even fucking Limp Bizkit. It’s groundbreaking, you say? Oh, it has the first “country rap” song? That “Cowboy” track? Sure, okay. Right. Sounds good man. Whatever you say. To be clear, I didn’t not enjoy this because I think Kid Rock personally sucks. I didn’t enjoy this because I thought it was bad. It’s overstuffed, lyrically incurious, and still has the audacity to be boring while touching on multiple genres. It doesn’t work as rock, it doesn’t work as rap, it doesn’t work as metal, and it certainly doesn’t work as country. Had to be there, I guess? Additional, obligatory “this is kind of misogynistic” knock.
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.
MAGA dog-whistle. A phony. Fuck Kid Rock. No reason for this to be here. Period.
Kid Rock is not someone I would gratefully listen to but here it goes. It is not the worst thing I've listened to, I do enjoy the melodies and the rap/rock/country fusion. Some good melodies and guitar riffs there. However, the lyrics are, again, not something I would happy listen to, but he had a rappee persona and he just behaved as one. I can't believe he namedropped Matchbox 20 in one of the songs. It was fun to see some names like Eminem making part of it as well. I can see where the hate is coming from, but honestly, it is an ok album, I can see why it is groundbreaking, but I dont think I will return to it that soon
No reason anyone should listen to this.
Not the worst thing I've ever heard, but man was i happy the album was finished
MAGA music 🤮
This surprised me by being bad in ways I never expected. Uninspired beats, derivative sound. Just awful
This album is absolutely dreadful. Starts bizarrely, no variety and lyrics are terrible. But it made me laugh so much I couldn’t give it a 1, had entertainment value despite being awful
Kinder Rock. So ein Poser. Schlimm.
too long, but i generally like it
This was tough to get through. Every track feels like it belongs on Kevin Devine’s ‘Give It a Chance’ podcast - ooooof. Giving it one extra star for fully leaning into the redneck chaos.
The filler is really rough on this
OK, I went on a bit of a journey with this one. I initially expected some sort of child friendly novelty music, but the opening track sounded intriguing right up to the point it turned into a white guy rapping. Alarm bells were starting to go off, but I still thought it might turn out to be something like the Beastie Boys (who really are the exception that proves the rule with this sort of music). I then went to check his Wikipedia page, which ticked every single red flag - confederate flag on stage - check, anti vaxer - check, Trump supporter - check. OK, I’m out.
Strangely enough, Kid Rock never got big in France (or at least around me) when Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach and all these bands being big with their "white guy rap with saturated guitars". I am kinda glad of this, because I can see how teenage-me would have love this, and I can see how grown-up-me hates this. There are clear rip off of RATM, the guy is full of himself (it's kind of common in this branch of the business, but he's another league), the country/rap/rock is painful (I might be a white boy but I'm not an American white boy), and lots of it just sounds fake. And apparently the guy is now a giant prick (who could have predicted?). I was close to give it a 2 (for teenage-me digging rap metal), but then the album never finishes. Fuck it.
Wasn’t mad at this at first (he knew what he was doing starting with those two tracks) but this crosses the line lol. G. Love and the Special Sauce or whatever clears. An enemy of Joe Dirt is an enemy of me
Listening to this on Canada Day felt like an act of treason
just absolutely confounding... there are unequivocal truths in this world... one such unequivocal truth is that Uncle Kracker wrote 12/14 songs on this album... another unequivocal truth is that the last thing i expected to hear while listening to Kid Rock is an interpolation of fleetwood mac's second hand news.. a third unequivocal truth is that Kid Rock should have been arrested for writing Black Chick, White Guy just sayin... next time I see nick im quoting that awesome em line from fuck off about how kid rock and em are two white boys who like to drink punch and smoke joints and hang out around drugs, loud music and like lots of noise
I'm not rating this one-star because of modern-day Kid Rock's bootlicking and politics. I'm not even rating it one-star because of the music, because when he decides to do something other than chugga-chugga guitars like on Welcome 2 the Party you realise that he's not bad at rapping with the old skool flow. I'm rating this one-star because Kid Rock decided to use the last track to tear his ex a new one, used the N-word, and had the gall to name it "Black Chick, White Guy".
Complete and utter dogshit but there are some hilarious lines. The best compliment I can give this record is that if someone approached me and said “hey Justin, I’m looking for the perfect soundtrack for when I go out at night and steal catalytic converters from the cars parked overnight in the Big Lots parking lot uptown. Not the one downtown near the Home Depot, but the one next to the old Arby’s where that guy tried to sell us hash that one time. Anyways what should I listen to?” Well, my answer would obviously be “Night Moves” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, but maybe, just maybe, and strictly as a bit, I would suggest Devil Without a Cause after thinking it over for awhile, thus changing the answer I gave to my friend probably hours after he already committed the crimes. I’m also wondering how he’s planning to get around because ever since his third DUI, the one on his bicycle on the interstate, I’ve had to be the one to drive him to his PO’s office. Am I now complicit in this small crime spree because I listened to this album one time, via YouTube in an incognito window? Who is to say.
An album that actively sapped my will to live by having to listen to it. But “Bawitdaba” still kinda hits I guess.
Sounds like angsty teenage rebellion. I don’t mind it but maybe in small doses
My opinion has not changed on this in 27 years when it was released.
Stopped listening halfway. No worthy of the airtime.
Reminds me of Rage Against the Machine, and therefore doesn’t seem to have its own individuality a lot of the time. I appreciate the country cross-overs, as country rap you do not hear very often. However, the hard rock sound with the rapping is accomplished a lot better by other artists.
This is so stupid it makes Limp Bizkit look smarter than Stephen Hawking. Nobody needs to listen to this crap.
I was aware of kid rock as a human, but not his music. I was also aware this has a bad reputation here so wasn't looking forward to it. 72 minutes later and i understand the hate. The lyrics are written by a sentient can of energy drink at a maga rally. They are truly awful, the kind a 14 year old boy would write when he's sniffing marker pens while angry at his dad. However, musically it is not an abomination. Its not my thing, but there is some decent touches here and there and i can see how this goes across well through shitty speakers at the lake while drinking shitty beer. 1.5 stars rounded down because it does not need to be over an hour
If I wanted to listen to a Rap album, this wouldn't be it. Its not awful (mostly) but it's Kid Rock and that carries a fair bit of baggage. Its not entirely obnoxious.
Cock rock with rap. I’ll never listen again.
(insert GIF of a cat retching here)
first song a little hardcore, then the next few songs had groovier beats, back to hardcore at song Fist of Rage, Only God Knows Why has terrible autotune and is kind of country, Fuck Off was more cool and hardcore but had a really long phone call skit thing at the end, then a nasty 12min rap at the end that is basically two songs
A lot of the reviews didn't listen to the album. I get he's playing a character and playing for an audience. Seems like a lot of people on here don't. This one is interesting. I like the more heavy cuts, but the country/southern influenced ones work. I get why its on the list- the southern hip hop thing works and this is probably the first time something like that really was made commercially successful. There's actually good musicianship on a lot of these tracks. I wouldn't say its a great album, but some songs are cool, majnly the heavier ones. Others kind of suck, especially the heavily autotuned Only God Knows Why. It's not a classic, but it deserves to be on the list. I wouldn't go through the album again but would revisit certain songs in the right context. 3.5, I round down 1=Crap that shouldn't be here 2=I didn't like it but get why it's here 3=I thought it was ok or even like it, get why it's here, but won't revisit 4=I like it, will revisit 5=This is some of the best music I've ever heard and will continue listening to it
🎧Steaming garbage by an absolute dipshit. If I could select just one album to be removed from Dimery’s book, this would be it.
Emphasis on "Kid." The vapidity is fatiguing, but still, I’ve heard worse on this list. Bawitdaba in particular is quite good.
Will never listen to this garbage
Arguably the worst album
Pretty much as terrible as I remembered; just dumb songs from a spoiled kid who has made a career "slumming it" as a trailer park boy. Sonically, it's a hodgepodge of every popular 90s music trope, from LL Cool J to Alice in Chains, but not done with any conviction other than "look how much I don't give a shit."
lmao
Fuck this, this is legitimately horrible.
Love to give this one a whole zero
Surprised at how much I liked this! Catchy tracks with good hooks. The rapping is not sophisticated but does the job. 4.2
Combination of rap, rock and metal from the late 1990s. The lyrics are offensive, the production is quite good, though. It's not an album I like but it isn't completely unbearable as many other 1 star albums. It's close but I'll give it a 3 out of 10 or 2 stars.
Guilty pleasure. actually terrible. Kid rock says he doesn't role vo's on one song then the very next song he's talking about riding on them with 100 spokes. You clearly see he was here for the grift and by what he's become is proof. But damm I liked this shit when I was 12, and still now. Only kid rock album I will like though.
não
This slapped in places.
no exaggeration, i whined like a petulant child when i realized i had to listen to Kid Rock. similar to my rating of Kanye West's albums, i refuse to let this guy profit off my streams, so i've gotten creative with how to accomplish rating this 🏴☠️ Bawitdaba - 3/5 Cowboy - 3/5 Devil Without a Cause - 1/5 I Am the Bullgod - 2/5 Roving Gangster (Rollin') - 3/5 Wasting Time - 1/5 Welcome 2 the Party... - 1/5 I Got One for Ya' - 2/5 Somebody's Gotta Feel This - 4/5 Fist of Rage - 3/5 Only God Knows Why - 2/5 Fuck Off - 2/5 (Eminem carried lol) Where U at Rock - 2/5 Black Chick, White Guy - 2/5 (it's obviously commentary on his life, but i do not have 12 minutes to waste hearing it) Average score: 2.2/5 ugh... where to begin i already know of Bawitdaba and Cowboy from the radio, they're relatively tame tracks in comparison to the rest of the album so they get a generous 3-star rating for that alone. Someone's Gotta Feel This was surprisingly inoffensive to me as well for some reason. it's all pretty much downhill from there i'm afraid i don't want to write about every song i hated (this'd turn into a 10-page essay if i did), so i'll just mention one that really stood out to me as particularly bad: Devil Without a Cause. i had to stop listening by the 4:00 mark due to that child (Joe C?) rapping my biggest issue with the majority of this album isn't necessarily how these songs sound, but rather, how *long* they are. some of them feel like they go on forever, and it took a lot of restraint for me to not just give up on reviewing all together. most of these songs could've been easier to sit through if they were just 1-2 minutes shorter in conclusion, this was pretty damn bad, but not bad enough to end up among my lowest-rated. if this hadn't been on this 1001 albums list, i would've been fine having not heard it. there's nothing revolutionary happening here; artists like Rage Against The Machine, Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Limp Bizkit had been blending rock and hip hop long before him, and they did it far better
It's about as bad as people say. It's basically music for being angry. Not a righteous anger about the injustice in the world. More of a selfish anger that you didn't get the easy life you were promised as a white middle-class American boy...
Classic, great album
Better than I thought.It would be somewhat niche but I still liked it.Four out of five
Really, genuinely disliked every song! :) Very misogynistic, bad lyrics, all the songs sound the same. Literally nothing redeemable for me.
White boy not invited to the cookout. Didn't like this one... Lot of noise... Lot of yelling about beer and being angry about stuff. From a musicality perspective the 'beats' are a little bit honky tonk, a little bit rap? Maybe a little catchy but it is easy to ignore because of the cringe lyrics. All in all I wanted this one to be over pretty much as soon as the first song started. Would not listen again.
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.
So, I kinda dug this when it came out..... but now when I listen to it, it's super repetitive in both themes (hey....did you know I'm a loud redneck pimp*???) and yelling. *if you have to keep saying it, you aren't. Also..........he was not a redneck, as his father owned auto dealerships, so this guy grew up privileged.
Alright alright yes Kid Rock is a piece of shit culture vulture who makes bad music nowadays, and I’m not going to begrudge you for giving this album one star because of that, but I’m sorry - looking at this album objectively - it’s fun! It’s big, stupid, bravado fun! The beats are catchy, the production is crisp, the hooks are there, and while his “flow” isn’t good, it’s musically pleasing and easy to listen to. I absolutely see why this was a hit. There’s probably, at least 50 albums, maybe 100, I’ve had a harder time getting through for this project than this one. It gets a little too long in the tooth like a lot of late-90s CD albums did, but hell, I more than enjoyed myself listening to this. I’m as surprised as you are. Giving this a mild “okay.”
I was trying to be fair when listening to this, concentrate on the music rather than the person. To be fair it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be - but it is still awful.
I mean, at least he has some more intelligence with the tongue in cheek stuff than Limp Biskit. My 13-year old self came out a little bit…
An extra star for the joy I had reading the YouTube comments on each track as I played it through in an incognito window.
First one I didn't make it through. Guess I don't want to be a cowboy.
Fuck Kid Rock.
A crossover of rap and rock, quite a cool concept. The songs are long and loud. Questionable lyrics.
wish i could move any of the 1 stars up because this album is just that bad
I’m from New York - I’m no stranger to blue language and have a reputation for it’s liberal usage in my day to day speaking - but Lord have mercy rap music sometimes just goes over the top with it. Really can be too much.
It’s really simple and basic sounding. Lyrics are tired and lame.
This guy is irritating and writes stupid lyrics. It's a good thing the opening track, Bawitdaba, has a heavy metal-esque guitar and drums, because the vocals are mildly unbearable. Some of the remaining songs have good instrumentals too. I appreciate the cliched but fun guitar lines and old-school hip-hop percussive beats. ...But alas, all mediocre things must come to an end. Kid Rock's lyrics are bad and he delivers them with such gusto that it's clear he genuinely believes he sounds good. (He doesn't.) Confidence is cool and all, but when it's misplaced the result makes your cochleas want to curl up into a ball and refuse to continue taking sonic input. As the album slogs through its 71-minute runtime, it becomes increasingly difficult to ignore the vocals. Kid Rock shouts (raps?) in a sort of faux-gangsta way - à la Eminem, who is bad for the same reason. It's so forced, so artificial, that it makes your skin crawl. Which is a shame, because his singing (especially with harmonies) is decent, as seen with the choruses of tracks like I Am the Bullgod and Wasting Time. Only God Knows Why is an interesting case of a genuinely good song with a great chorus, piano, and organ - but it's marred by the autotune. I want to say that the sound aged poorly, except autotune is even more prevalent today. I guess society doesn't learn, eh? Re lyrics, there are countless gems in the title track alone: "So shut up now or put my balls in your mouth / Bet that ass hoss I ain't forgot" "Used to call me funny when my nose was fucking runny / Now my fucking bunnies getting fucking Matchbox 20 money" "Old as piss but small as ass / Watch me cash, smoke some hash" Plus a few from other songs: "People always talkin what they gonna do / They must want their face to maybe taste my shoe" "Don't wannt hear me cuss don't wanna hear me brag / So I'm grabbing on my thingy while I let my pants sag" "He's rocking dickies, sipping, licking, slipping honeys, pop that daddy steady" This guy is endless entertainment for all the wrong reasons. It's much more fun reading his lyrics than forcing yourself to listen to them. 2/5 Key tracks: Cowboy, Wasting Time, Only God Knows Why
Get this trash off of the list
youre everyone you hate asleep or awake the choices you make youre everyone you hate and its ruining your life
Holy shit, this is terrible. Aggressively stupid, almost unlistenable. A car crash.
I was never gonna listen to this, but have a review that will make sure I never have to think about it again. I managed to skim through the start of about 4 tracks before giving up. As Spotify says for track 12: Kid Rock Fuck Off
Okay okay okay, hear me out. What if we took some of the most controversial and disliked genres in western music - country, nu metal, and gangsta rap - and mashed them all together with no real thought behind how it would sound? No wait, don't go just yet, we've got the perfect frontman for it - no, he's not likeable. No, he hasn't got any real flow or charisma. But he hunt out with Ice Cube once? Hey, where are you going? Absolutely awful, I wouldn't wish this on my enemies. The only reason I can think of it being on this list is as a cautionary tale. Apparently it started the new genre of rap country, and maybe it shouldn't have.
Awful, just absolutely awful. Not even the production is good on this. I have heard “bawitaba” more times than I can remember but holy crap I didn’t remember it sounding this bad. I hate everything about this. I wish I could give it 0 stars.
The man is a fucking idiot, fascist and fraud
Let me just start by saying that in some ways I am a simple animal. A solid beat, and some hard rock riffs will get my head bopping. But then the vocals kick in, and another animal instinct kicks in: rage. Simple, juvenile, misogynist, braggadocious , and mostly offensive. Offensive to my ears that is. Then rinse, wash, repeat for 71 minutes. 71 minutes of same sounding tracks, conveying the same message. It's too much and even the solid beats, and heavy riffs that got me going start to grate on my nerves. Take this down to a slim 45 minutes and I would still not like it, but at least it wouldn't be as much of a slog. Well, no, it still would be.
Annoyed that I gave this man 0.005 cents to stream this album
One or two keepers but mostly self-involved garbage.
Oh joy. ANOTHER Rock n Rap hybrid album. And this one has the unique selling point of featuring .... checks album ... a white dude of questionable politics and a fascination with jail-bait. Sounds like a cheap knock-off of Run DMC. No, I was not a fan.
Das ist so arsch
I thought it was OK. The first few tracks are fun and have some brilliant guitars but it does get old after a while and the novelty wears off. There is some dross in the second half. I get that he's a crappy human being but it starts to feel a bit pointless rating these albums if we're just going on our feelings about the people themselves. I don't want to be his mate, but his album is less boring than a lot of other ones I've heard so far.
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.
No, it's a 1 for sure, but I'm giving it 2 because you can't say it wasn't interesting. The classic car wreck you can't not look at.
Bawitdaba Cowboy
decent fun
Tedious! More like Kid Schlock!
Not bad, actually. I don't like rap in any style, but this was an interesting and varied album, with genuine musicality behind it.
Turn it up, so the limp-dick woke liberals in the back can hear!! Banger of a fuckin' album!
Guy sucks and his music is not much better
I was torn between 2 and 3
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.
Kid Rock is a total douche canoe.
Ugh. He's just the worst. What was interesting about this is how well the music is produced? There's a lot of influences in this music without it being pastiche. Too bad he has to rap? Song? Over it..
Turn it up, so the limp-dick woke liberals in the back can hear!! Banger of a fuckin' album!
If I could give this less than one star I would. It’s just so empty and uninteresting. Not to mention Kid Rock supports fascism. So fuck him
I don’t blame him. I blame the people who enabled this.
Great few first songs and then blah.
Fuck no, I'm not giving this dipshit my time or the fraction of the penny he'd get in streaming revenue. I've heard that stupid song thousands of times, not gonna see if there are any surprises on the rest of the album. Go shoot guns at woke beer you freak
Sitting on his horse riding in al directions.
Cowboy and bawditba (spelling) are guilty pleasures, albeit "chicks with beepers". Is very dated. Kind of fascinating to hear Eminem on a track. Lots of funk beats. Alright storytelling with some of the lyrics. Have to separate art from current artist. 'i am the bullgod' making an appearance twice was unnecessary
yeah i was having fun, fuck it
If it’s 1998 I might be able to enjoy parts of this album ironically, but it’s 2025 and while I was entertained by some of the ridiculous lyrics, overall this album just predicts exactly who Kid Rock has become, a stupid, loud m, racist MAGA Stan. As for the music, frankly it’s like someone took hip hop, grunge and rock, mashed it together and took out anything about those genres that makes them uncomfortable to white dudes and then added a truly phenomenal number of references to penis size. I don’t know if it’s for the greater good that music exists that allows a certain type of dude in a pickup truck to listen to music that’s loud and pretending to be edgy but that at no time asks the listener (if the listener is that dude in a pickup) to inhabit a reality other than his own. I got to inhabit a reality not my own and I’d like to get that time back. Two tracks in I quipped to a friend “it’s like Beck, but for dudes who want to imagine drinking on a yacht with women with big boobs.” Two stars for the mashup of it all and the dick rhymes. That’s it.
Really annoying
Not interested
An hour of Kid Rock sucking his own dick to how cool he is and the thought that I will never live up to him
Influential if only for probably being the precursor to Country Rap. Kid Rock has never heard a good idea that he wasn't willing to steal and mix with another.
The users of this website have overstated the case for this album’s inadequacies. I understand why he became a superstar among a certain slice of America. Whatever else you wanna say, he’s got “it”. I’m also not the slice of America he’s aiming to hit. So he’s got a couple of songs in here, but overall it’s a 3.
I don't listen to MAGA dipshits.
3.5
What a loser
1. daba - 1.5 2. couuboy - 2 3. devil - 1 4. bullgod - 1 5. gangzter - 1 6. time - 0 7. party - 0 8. ya - 0 9. feel - 1 10. rage - 1 11. god - 1 12. fuck - 1.5 13. rock - 1 14. chick - 0
Why is this tagged as metal? This is not even remotely metal. It’s missing the rhythmic complexity/intensity and the musical aggression (NOT the false chest-beating of Kid Rock) that defines the genre. Chuck Berry is musically closer to Thrash than this is to metal. Instead, this is genuinely terrible (and pathetically imitative of ‘90s hip-hop and rock) music that drains intelligence from the listener. It presents no ideas worth hearing either musically or lyrically, yet astonishingly drags itself out for seventy-one minutes. But while we’re on the subject of metal, why do we get a Kid Rock album, but are missing seminal metal records from Bathory, Mayhem, Death, Incantation, Darkthrone, Meshuggah, Opeth, and Mastodon? This is a seriously under-represented genre in this list and we’re filling up precious few slots with some of the worst music ever made; music that isn’t really even part of the genre. What a tragedy. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable
individually, the songs aren't as bad as everyone is making them out to be. if you turn your brain off for a bit some of them are actually pretty fun tracks. they arent good, but they arent that bad. that said listening to them back to back is torturous. there are maybe three distinct ideas across the whole album, recycled endless across tracks which are already far too long for how little substance they offer. up until now in the review, i've separated the art from the artist because, lets face it, if we judged every album here by the artist's behavior, a lot of classics wouldn't get a single star. that said, kid rock is one artist who absolutely deserves to be lambasted for his actions. the lyrics of the last song are a clear window into a deep rooted, ugly mindset that poisons any remaining enjoyment this album might've offered.
Hot trash.
Some fun stuff here, but basically the dream album of a White teen or an incel/cryptobro. Plus the fact that Kid Rock is a stain of a human being.
I knew this album was overdue to turn up, but I was still dreading it. I figured I'd never heard any Kid Rock tracks before, but it turns out I did know the very first track, and it wasn't actually as bad as I was expecting. Although my hatred for Kid Rock largely stems from his support for the orange-faced Nazi who he loves to appear on stage with, I wanted to try and listen to this without prejudice. It's difficult, when the artist is such a terrible person, but I managed to do this for Kanye West, so I made a similar effort here. The rest of the album more than made up for the first track. Awful sampling, auto-tune, dreadful lyrics, even Eminem couldn't save this garbage. There's various styles here that reminded me of other (far better) artists. I was feeling an ICP vibe for a while, but without the comedic lyrics, or the fact that the ICP members are genuinely nice people. Later, there was a section that felt a bit more Rage Against the Machine, but like a master mix of their greatest hits with dumb lyrics. There was even a bit that felt like early Beastie Boys, but with only one singer, and again, those awful lyrics that grated more and more. I think the lyrics were what killed any enjoyment for me by the end. The last track is just so bad, unnecessary, and embarrassing that it should never have been recorded. Every time Mr Rock raps about being a "pimp" it just made me feel a bit sorry for his attempts to sound like something he obviously isn't. Also, slapping a rehash of an earlier track on the end of an already overfull album, is just a weird decision. This really is an album that didn't need to exist in my opinion. It offers nothing new, and yes, I'm including country-rap-metal in that. I don't think this was as ground breaking as some people think.
Surprisingly some good songs
nah. hard pass
Loved this when it first came out then turned my nose at it when I refined my musical palate. Would be interesting to revisit. OK I liked it because I was a kid and this album is juvenile. I mean, some nu metal survived and remained relevant. Looking back at Slipknot, Korn or SOAD you can really appreciate what they did and what they brought to the table, even if you don’t personally like it. This, on the other hand, is utter crap. Stupid lyrics and music that is fully based around tropes which were worn out even then. I don’t think it has enough of a historical importance as well. Hybrid Theory was much more important in bringing this kind of music mainstream, and artistically there’s nothing here.
1 star. Fuck this guy 👎👎👎👎👎😒
It was good except for the language and the fact that it's coming from him
Well that was shithouse.
Nah not really a fan
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 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.
listening to it, lets just say there was a time and a place.
People are right about the comparisons to rage against the machine, I'm just here for the music, and it kept me entertained. It was aight.
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
"What if we took the ethics of poor white Michigan trailer trash and combined it with classic rock and hip hop samples?"
Yuk
Yeah. I admit it. I used to listen to this in high school. I still know a lot of the words, too. Objectively I know it's trash and I'm embarrassed I ever liked it, but the slight nostalgia I feel for it won't let me give it a lower grade than 2 stars. P.S. That n-word on the last track? We shouldn't be surprised that Kid has gone full MAGA.
As I've said before in one of these reviews, I believe in separating the art from the artist. Kid Rock is clearly not a good person and this album isn't exactly a masterpiece but it is certainly better than some of the absolute garbage albums that this list contains. The album definitely skews towards the lower end of the rating scale but if you were a teen in the late 90's or early 2000's you absolutely banged your head to Bawitdaba. I mean, the song was included in a fucking Simpsons episode, you couldn't escape it. Bawitdaba, Cowboy, Devil Without a Cause and Only God Knows Why are really the only songs worth listening to here, mayyyybe Wasting Time as well. The rest is trash and all sounds the same. All in all this album is about a 2.5 out of 5, I'll be generous and give it a 3. Kid Rock the person would score a 0/5.
I'm not going to listen to this fuck off.
Trash
Kid rock. Nuff said
Lol, what is Kid Rock doing here?
Sit down kids because you're not going to like what I have to say. The book of bad people making good art is thick. And there is a whole chapter on Trump-influenced MAGAts. But again, refers back to the first sentence of this paragraph. Cultural appropriation aside, this rich boy that grew up so far from Detroit that his current residence of Nashville is closer made a good album. Again, read the first sentence. The messaging in this album has aged worse than Kid Rock's racism, but for a reflection of the time Devil Without a Cause is a good album, but if Limp Bizkit can stay on this list, so can Robert Ritchie. Again… first sentence. If this list erased the terrible people, at least 250 albums would need to be removed. 3.5/5
Armed with a flow to make other rappers cringe, lyrics that are an embarrassment to the first sentence ever put to paper and a persona tottaly pulled out of his ass, kid rock managed to put together an album that's equally overproduced as underproduced, and manages to stand out as the absolute garbage in an era plagued with cringy Nu Metalbands, overtly clean Pop starlets and tryhard fake gangsta rappers.
Es el hijo de un rapero y un rockero basicamente, no lo disfrute.
A couple good songs in there, a couple songs i wish i coulda skipped. More of the latter.
It's been a while since I felt no guilt or uncertainty about awarding 1 star. This had absolutely no redeeming qualities.
The only way I could enjoy this is if part of my frontal lobe was removed.
Kid Rock is a fucking chode and this music sucks, but some of you gotta understand...when you are a high schooler in flyover country, you go to keggers in alfalfa fields where you drink Busch Light and listen to crap music like this and pop country and other annoying shit. It's not political, it's just a thing that happens. Or at least it used to happen before we all went collectively crazy and decided that we need to choose a side and fight to the death until "our" side wins and the "other" side is utterly destroyed. Maybe in some fucked up way we were better off when people of all stripes could drink watery beer and listen to Kid Rock together while yelling at the stars.
I don’t know what’s happened to me. First time of listening I hated this, then when I listened again on the headphones I was bopping around my kitchen. There are some decent grooves here. I hate the lyrics though and that autotune is awful. It goes on too long and I have no intention of ever listening again. Also, I have no idea what a bullgod is and the first time I listened I genuinely thought he was singing ‘pool guy’.
Wow. This is bad.
Much better and more diverse than many rap albums. The ballad is generally cool (compared to the rest of the album, of course). If the length of the album had been 2 times less, it would have been possible to add another half point. 4.5 out of 10.
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Christ what an asshole. I listened to this a hundred times in my teens. Wish I knew then what I know now.
3/
Ew. Why is this on here? This had to be a troll. Kid Rock is not someone who comes to mind anyone would name as being an artist. the epitome of low brow, trashy music.
I honestly had no idea that Kid Rock recorded any albums before song "All Summer Long". Looks like I missed out on this record, it would probably hit hard in the late 90s. Nowadays, this album seems very outdated and not that interesting, the craziness for country rap rock is long gobe, I assume. Sentimental, but it doesn't provide much else.
Devil Without A Cause is Kid Rock's fourth album, and was the work that made him famous. His first three releases were a mixture of country and rap, and met with very limited success. For this album, Kid Rock mixed heavy metal with rap, and added an over-the-top persona. The combination worked well in the late 90s. The album is a strange mix - most is his "new formula" - metal/rap with a distinct swagger - but a few tracks are the county/rap from his earlier records. Kid Rock presents a difficult art v. artist question. This album was successful and influential, and should be favorable reviewed as such. The artist is a horrible human being, and has chosen to support a right-wing, hate-driven agenda.
I did use a private session on Spotify because of Kid Rock. Trying to get over what I think of Kid Rock, the over the top misogyny on this album, the horrid use of the auto tune when he isn't "rapping", there are a couple of great novelty songs on it.
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
I understand the influence, but this is just straight up not a good album.
Fuck this shitty guy and his shitty music.
Nope
Crunchy guitars and heavy beats mixed with machismo, bravado and misogny. The Beasties boys used the same formula but didn't take themselves seriously. This is the kind of thing that gives ignorant white trash a bad name.
The worst tropes of rap music, without any of the self-awareness. This is an influential album and it belongs on this list because it reminds us why America sucks so much shit.
(Extremely smug voice) My 3 stars for Limp Bizkit doesn't look so bad now, does it? Ohohoho! I still think Bawitdaba is kinda funny and catchy, but each song on this is worse than the preceding one. Why is this album soooo long? It's like he had three ideas and he kept repeating them with diminishing results each time.
Haha WTF
Fuck that. Big old slice of noooooope
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause There is a huge difference between listening to music and listening to this "music". Just awful. Truly awful in every way. As a rap fan myself, this is a huge stain for the culture, and I'm glad that hardly anyone ever remembers this album's existence to begin with. It's disappointing that this album somehow got to be into this website in the first place, I could've gone my whole life without ever hearing this album ever, but here I am. If I was eminem myself, I would have NEVER been involved with an album like this AT ALL. Every way you can think of this going bad ends up being worse than expected. This is why white guys have a bad stereotype of being vultures in the rap culture, because of people like him, trying to appeal to a certain demographic instead of respect what rap truly is and experiment with it without losing it's fundamentals and essence that hip-hop actually has. It's sad, cause there's actually some good white rappers out there like El-P, Aesop Rock, Mac Miller, Lil Ugly Mane, R.A. the Rugged Man, and of course, Eminem, and yet people like "Kid Rock" just ruin it for everyone who are genuinely respecting the culture and not turning it into their own thing. This was embarassing to hear, I wished I had 1 hour and 11 minutes back into life, it really was a waste of time. Overall, this is BAD. 1.- Bawitdaba = 5/10 2.- Cowboy = 3/10 3.- Devil Without a Cause = 2/10 4.- I Am the Bullgod = 3/10 5.- Roving Gangster (Rollin') = 2/10 6.- Wasting Time = 4/10 7.- Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School) = 1/10 8.- I Got One for Ya' = 6/10 9.- Somebody's Gotta Feel This = 4/10 10.- Fist of Rage = 4/10 11.- Only God Knows Why = 3/10 12.- Fuck Off = 4/10 13.- Where U at Rock = 3/10 14.- Black Chick, White Guy / I Am the Bullgod = 1/10 FINAL SCORE: 3.2/10
0.0 stars. This has never been worth hearing. Garbage that's aged like milk.
Slop, like pretty much everything else Kid Rock has ever made
Listened Before? Y This one use to be a big favorite of mine back before Kid lost his fucking mind. Now I refuse to listen to it and give him money. Get lost. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: None
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Music for adult toddlers with a masturbation addiction
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This is a difficult one to rank as it very much feels like an album of a certain era. I was transported to a time of South Park, Nu-Metal and Attitude Era WWF. That strange period in history where cartoonish rebellion was in. A nostalgic journey to a certain period of my childhood. The downside really was the actual music. There were a couple of decent enough songs, but by and large they were infantile and showed little musical skill. Not terrible, but not particularly good either. 2 stars.
Addressing the biggest thing here: Kid Rock is a dumb piece of shit. His current public persona as an ignorant MAGA moron is inexcusable, and he constantly reminds you of how dumb he is everytime he opens his mouth. ALL THAT ASIDE, I'm giving this three stars. For my personal rating system, 3 stars represents that an album was a good listen for historical/cultural edification. Similar to Limp Bizkit, this album helps frame a time period (America specific) in the late 90's, and contributed/defined the "nu-metal" genre. Is it a good genre? No. But was it important to understand the culture/music trends at the time? Yes. Additionally, this album kicked off his career and (somehow) lasting popularity. He got a lot of mileage out of the "red-neck pimp" persona, and some of the songs, while cringey in retrospect, are still bangers. It goes on too long (which was typical of albums in the late 90s CD era), and is really repetitive, but it has some legitimate grooves.
A couple of the songs on the album were wildly popular when it came out. The rest of it was terrible. Looking at only this album, it’s probably a 2.5, it also might help to drink a Bud Light while listening.
2.5
2.5
Sexy cunt. Isn't this the guy that was caught blowing the Creed dude on a tour bus? In any case, I never would've suspected that a poser from Detroit could've done southern rock better than most any band in the south.
Such an embodiment of the late 90s/early 00s. And all of that has now rotted and metastasized.
I hate Red Bull. Vodka is meh. Put them together and you have the only way that Red Bull is tolerable. Sheryl Crow is Vodka, just kind of bland. Kid Rock is Red Bull. The song Picture is the only tolerable Kid Rock because it's cut with Sheryl Crow. This album has nothing to cut it, it's the worst.
If I could turn myself into a 15 year old that dropped out of school in the 6th grade, this album might cook. Robert James Ritchie is a poser that can’t rap very well. This was a waste of 71 minutes that I will never get back.
Is there a zero star option?
NOooo thanks
You're kidding me, no?
This is dreadful. Cowboy had me extremely worried, it is actually awful. Thankfully, the album never gets quite that bad again, at least not until Only God Knows Why. Wow. The only positive I think I can give is that the guitars are sometimes decently heavy and have a decent tone. Like there's something very vaguely resembling Rage Against the Machine hidden buried under utter shit. In fact, Kid Rock also vaguely resembles Chris Cornell at points, like on the screams on I Am The Bullgod and the melodic vocals on Roving Gangster, making it sound like an absolutely terrible Audioslave cut they left on the studio floor Otherwise it's full of shitty nu metal clichés- turntable scratching, shitty rapping and excessive use of that fucking filter effect on the vocals. The lyrics are dreadful. Kid Rock tries to copy boastful rappers but comes across like an utter tool. "I swing low like a chimp" shut the fuck up. "Can drink about 15 Heinekens" wow, hardcore. The hard n-word as well on the last track, what a cunt. He seems like such a loser, trying to simultaneously portray himself as a poor Detroit kid like Eminem, but also a good old southern boy, whilst apparently growing up well off. Just embarrassing Also, like most 90s and early 2000s albums it's way, way too long. Why did it not occur to anyone that just because CDs mean you can stuff it with that much music, it doesn't mean you should? Guantanamo Bay torture music Highlights: Batwitdaba
This dude would be an okay rapper if he knew how to do a chorus correctly.
This... this is fucking terrible.
Have this on CD, used to really like it. But after his antics over the past decade it's unlistenable.
Wish I could give this no stars
Holy shit this sucks. Bad lyrics. Why is there a kid on this album! Only good thing on it is the Eminem feature. I’m killing myself tonight and this album is the reason why
Bawitdaba 0.7 Cowboy 0.6 Devil Without a Cause 0.4 I Am the Bullgod 1.2 Roving Gangster (Rollin') 0.7 Wasting Time 1 Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School) 0.3 I Got One for Ya' 0.4 Somebody's Gotta Feel This 0.4 Fist of Rage 0.3 Only God Knows Why 1 Fuck Off 0.5 Where U at Rock 0.4 Black Chick, White Guy 0.3 Score: 0.585714286
I can't put into words how bad this was.
This music sounds the way analingus tastes
OK this was not as bad as I expected (at least, until I started listening to what he says), but still bad. Sounded quite trashy, if I have to describe it.
Could you imagine being an actual fan of Kid Rook and thinking that this is some of the best music ever to exist? Favourite Songs: Bawitdaba, Cowboy. Least Favourite Songs: Fist of Rage, Only God Knows Why, Fuck Off, Black Chick, White Guy.
It was musically alright. Different than the bulk of the albums I listened to here. However, the lyrics and length of the album really drag it down
I understand why it’s on this list, with its influence still being felt in music today, but this is absolute trash and torture to sit through.
American country rap-rock. Sounds like a parody. Not my jam.
**DISCLAIMER: this reviewer does not share the views presented by this artist** **DISCLAIMER: this reviewer does not share anything at all with kid rock, be it in the physical or the abstract** this is pretty cool, im enjoying it! i wish i wasnt. God I wish I wasn't. Maybe one day I'll reincarnate and then I'll hate this album. In this life I failed. I'm sorry music. I'm sorry society. so with that being said im thinking a good 3