Devil Without A Cause

Mid rock

I have to give 5 for what this was in 1998-. Fun and irreverent and danceable. I loved KR then. I disowned him when he connected with Agent Orange. This was fun today but it will remain in my private listening stuff.

i just couldn't listen to this...

We should just erase this era and style of music from the record books. 1/5

Fuck. This. Shit. I wish there was a zero star option.

Bleh. Country kinda started to slap though. But this is not good cmon team

Sehr cooler Rock-Rap, oder Rap-Rock? Whatever. Nice!

Dog shit.

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

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

I had Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation two days ago. One of the top rated reviews is how loud that album is. Man, do I miss the loudness of Daydream Nation. At least it always came after a period of relative quiet. There is always a sense of dynamics. I don’t know if it’s just that Devil Without A Cause is a victim of the Loudness War, but man, this thing is actually uncomfortable to listen to. Actually, you know what, I just got to I Got One For Ya. ‘What the fuck happened to the peace and love?’ FUCKING PEOPLE LIKE YOU KID ROCK, YOU DENSE DENSE MORON! If the album is on this list because it’s notable for being an early example of Country Rap… Actually you know what, I just got to Only God Knows Why… ???. ???. ???. What? What is this doing on here? What is that autotune? Why is that there? If you’re going to do an honest to god Country ballad, you can’t get the same person who did Cher’s autotune on Believe to do yours. And why the fuck is it after Fist Of Rage, which was possibly the worst, hardest song on the album so far. ??? My god, this is going on my playlist of worst songs ever. Actually, you know what, I just got to Fuck Off. You got Eminem, possibly the best rapper around in 1998, and you put him so far back in the mix that you CAN’T HEAR A WORD HE’S SAYING! And now, the last two minutes of the song is just a load of answerphone messages? It worked as a trick on Good Kid Maad City, because it served a narrative purpose, but here? Is this a concept album now? Fuck Black Chick/White Guy. This is the most misogynistic, racist crap I’ve ever had to listen to. I don’t know the half of it? I don’t know the half of it!? Maybe if you treated this woman like an actually fucking person, like someone that you genuinely want to have a relationship with, or even respect her enough to not sleep with other women, then she wouldn’t sleep with other men. Fuck this. A lot of the bad will people have towards Kid Rock nowadays is that he’s proved himself to be a massive piece of shit. Devil Without A Cause proves that he hasn’t changed in 25 years. I feel numb after listening to this. I need to go listen to some Leonard Cohen or something to remember how to feel like a human being again.

not for me

I tried to give this a good shot. I know Kid Rock has entertained our troops overseas so he started in my good graces. The first song was not bad—could definitely see working out to it—it’d keep me moving. Went downhill from there though. Too much foul language and goofy lyrics. He’s getting a 2 only because I appreciate those who take their time out to support our military.

"Bawitdaba" and "Cowboy" were radio staples when I was a kid. They're still fun. The next track, "Devil Without a Cause" sounds like imitation Rage Against the Machine (with a little touch of Beck's "Odelay" around 3:08). The lyrics are all shit-talking to his critics and mythologizing how awesome he is, the sort of thing you hear in a lot of old-school hip-hop. There's a clear Beastie Boys influence throughout the album too. It all feels pretty earnest though. The genre mashups like "I Am the Bullgod" -- metal meets country meets rap-rock -- sound natural. It's not forced. Kid Rock has the swagger to pull it all together. Wow, he really underlines his Rage Against the Machine influence with "Fists of Rage." It's a little on the nose. The auto-tuned country ballad "Only God Knows Why" is a surprise. Nice change of pace. This album has lots of big riffs, catchy hooks and plenty of dick jokes. Good, trashy fun. Okay wait, this last track “Black Chick, White Guy” is surprisingly heartfelt. I could do without the misogynistic name-calling but overall it’s interesting to hear Kid Rock in storyteller mode.

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

An absolutely vile pile of garbage. I’m embarrassed to share a home state with this man. Fairly sure I upchucked a boogie after having to listen to this

Horrific

This is an album you MUST listen to for the same reason you must know what chlamydia is.

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

How did this make the list? I like some terrible music and this I quit on the third song.

I knew this was on the list thanks to the Reddit group, so I had pretty low expectations going in. Surprisingly it’s actually worse than I thought. His flow is weak his rhymes are asinine the music is poor. Sadly I can’t give a negative score

Does this album deserve to be on the list? No. Is it a reminder of how low we once were in our music taste? Yes. Does it have one or two bangers? Also, yes. Is KidRock a piece of crap? One hundred percent. We all should be embarrassed for ever giving this guy a musical career.

brings back memories lmao

- Lustigerweise habe ich erst vor einigen Monaten dieses Album mal komplett durchgehört und muss sagen: Da sind schon einige richtig geile Tracks drauf, aber auch ein paar, die trotz ironischem Charme einen gewissen Cringe-Faktor haben (Häufig die reinen HipHop-Songs und die \"Ballade\" Only God Knows Why) - Die Rap-Metal Songs sind einfach groovy ohne Ende - Eminem Cameo knallt! - Auch hier muss ich leider wieder darauf aufmerksam machen, dass es mir schwer fällt, Kunst und Künstler zu trennen. Und Kid Rock, der zwar schon immer Republikaner war, hat sich in den letzten 10 Jahren so dermaßen zum rechten Rand geschossen (transphob, antimuslimisch, trump-supporter), dass ich seine Musik nur noch sehr distanziert genießen. Das soll sich jetzt aber einfach mal nicht auf die Bewertung auswirken. 3,25/5

- ich kann nicht leugnen, dass einige coole Sachen dabei sind - vor allem alles metallastige und die dazugehörigen Riffs - auf der anderen Seite finde ich die reinen Hip-Hop Sachen eher schwächer - Mir war nicht bewusst, wer der Typ ist (wobei ich dann beim Recherchieren gemerkt habe, dass man dann doch mindestens von der Bud Light Geschichte mitbekommen hat. Ich kann die Musik jetzt einfach nicht mehr so richtig genießen, da er einfach ein absoluter Schrottjochen ist - textlich ist leider auch einiges an Müll dabei Nichtsdestotrotz komme ich so auf 2,75-3 / 5

Countryrap, whatever. 's Mans taalgebruik en politieke denkbeelden zijn niet los te weken van de inhoud van de plaat, dus persoonlijk draai ik liever de meesterwerken van onze Fransie dan dit.

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

Rap rock, van een soort neppe cowboy, een stoere grappenmaker. Het voelt allemaal heel erg nep aan. Dan komt op het derde nummer ook nog een of andere kiddo meerappen, dan is het al helemaal niet meer geloofwaardig. Alsof het 1 grote act is, wat het waarschijnlijk ook is. De teksten zijn in ieder geval net zo kinderachtig als veel van zijn mederappers. Het is wel grappig om te luisteren op zich, maar dit is niet echt wat ik van de snoblijst had verwacht. Al heeft die gast hier wel meer dan 11 miljoen exemplaren van weten te verkopen, wat een puike prestatie is voor meer dan een uur flauwekul. Op het moment dat hij zijn gemaakt stoere karakter even opzij zet en een gevoelig liedje gaat zingen (dat overigens volstrekt uit het niets komt), zit er zo'n verschrikkelijke autotune overheen. En als ik de wiki er op na sla, was hij dus de eerste, nog zelfs voor Cher met die vreselijke oorwurm Believe. Ik kan het wel afluisteren en zet dit denk ik ook liever op dan Frans Bauer of Joni Mitchell, maar echt goed kan ik het niet vinden. Ik voel niet echt de behoefte om meer van Kid Rock op te zoeken verder. Al is dat latere hitje best geinig, all summer long, dat zou ik in een zomers playlistje kunnen zetten.

Surprised by this record. I totally understand why people got onto this back in 1998. Can see inspiration in bands like Linkin Park etc. I enjoyed it as mad as that sounds.

-1 star

awesome thanks

I want my money back

Mischung aus Rap, Rock und Country-Elementen. Mal was anderes.

I would put a couple of these songs in a time capsule that encompasses the 90’s/00’s rap/rock alongside limp bizkit. For its time it was huge. It does not hold up very well 20 years later however. A lot of the filler songs are just awful. Teenage me loved this shit, but adult me doesn’t have any interest in listening to it. Plus his persona is fake and his political views are shit.

Could’ve removed half the songs

A bit over the top for me.

Holy shit this is bad.

Misogynistic, disgusting. Couldn't finish it.

This was better than I thought it would be. Don’t like rap/hip hop but when it is delivered in a heavy rocking style i can just about get along with it. Was going to give it a 3 but then read other reviews, who I assume the majority are better qualified and know their hip hop and who all seem to disparage the record and Kid Rock. Reading further about Kid Rock I learnt that he is a bit of a divisive character in the US so maybe that accounts for the bad reviews. I’m a white male in his 70’s from the north of England so this music is miles away from my comfort zone. I therefore amend my rating as advised indirectly by my American cousin's and hope tomorrow I get an album that I can review with a bit more authority, which has this process goes on seems to get rarer. 2/5 25/5/25

Please never again

I am going to be writing this review as I listen so I may ramble and sound disjointed. I guess I need to explain that I love (good) nu metal; Korn, System of a Down and Deftones are some of my all time favorite bands, but this is straight dog turds. I knew Bawitdaba from high school, but I never realized how bad his vocals were, there is almost no energy behind them. I am the bullgod is like babies' first metal song. Barely even a riff. Roving Gangster is basically the same song. wtf is that annoying noise in Wasting time. IT IS SO ANNOYING WTF! how is this the 5th highest stream song on this album. I got one for ya is a terrible song Somebody's Gotta Feel This is the same song as Roving Gangster and Bullgod in a different key. Fist of Rage is just a bad Filter song. HOLY SHIT ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY IS THE WORST SONG I'VE HEARD ON THIS LIST SO FAR! The worst thing about this album is that it sounds fake. Kid Rock is a poser and doesn't belong in this scene. Korn and nu metal as a whole were huge at the time and he is just cashing in on the hype. I don't believe that any of this was made out of the love of music but rather what could make him the most money. I can't believe that this made this list and Korn's debut (the birth of nu metal) didn't Kid Rock has a terrible voice, his music has no soul and worst of all his riffs are weak. I am going to go listen to the Coal Chamber album now.

Пара песен прям прикольные

Just no

Take the soundtrack to a 70s porno, add a little distortion, and rap over it like an edgy 14 year old bragging about all the sex and drugs he does to his fellow virgins, and, hey presto, you’ve got a Kid Rock song. Ok, maybe that was a little harsh. He can also auto-tune his way through a generic pickup-truck Country song as well as imitate a pound shop Rage Against the Machine; imagine Killing in the Name, but the bassist has had a stroke and it’s about smoking weed instead of racist cops. TL:DR: it’s very important to Kid Rock that you know that he: - smokes weed - has fucked your mom - could kick your ass if he wanted to - has a girlfriend; she just goes to a different school

Didn’t quite have the visceral hatred that everyone else seemed to have for this, didn’t seem any worse than any other rap-metal that I’ve heard. Almost popped it a three, but that would just be been to annoy you all. Simpsons: Yes

Potential for the worst album on this list? Having seen other reviews, I went in hoping I'd find some enjoyment in it to give a higher mark. I'd heard a little Kid Rock before, so wasn't expecting anything great. But this surpassed my expectations. Impressively cringe. When the autotune kicked in on Only God Knows Why I had to laugh. Did not expect the Eminem appearance.

Well you can't say he doesn't belive in himself. It's just unfortunate that this belief can't be converted to talent

Just some dumb rich kid cosplaying as a redneck pimp.

If a genie came to me today, and granted me three wishes, I just might use one of those wishes to ensure I never have to hear or see anything relating to Kid Rock ever again. I am embarrassed to say I sat through and listened to this entire thing. It is remarkable how unenjoyable this album manages to be. I doubt he set out to write and put together a record that feels completely devoid of what makes music actually interesting, but it sure feels like he did. This is utterly vapid to the highest degree. And I believe anyone that enjoys this to some capacity should be ashamed of themselves. Kid Rock is a piece of shit who makes terrible music. Plain and simple. This is an insult to everything that rap and metal, and the fusion of the two, represents. There is literally only a 6 year difference between this and the Rage Against the Machine debut. It’s crazy how much better something sounds when you have people with real talent and purpose creating the music. I’m capable of listening to music that doesn’t necessarily have some massive purpose. Music can just be that. Music. But everyone knows it’s often better when there is some real meaning or story fueling the creative process. As Pharrell Williams put it, “Once it becomes purpose-oriented, it can be as cool as the flashy shit, but it will be much more meaningful”. What is the purpose of this album? To me, it comes off as completely senseless trash. Kid Rock is so disgustingly cocky, and for as abhorrent of a lyricist as he is, (seriously, dude can’t write lyrics for shit), he manages to make Limp Bizkit sound like Shakespeare. Also, he just flat out says the n-word on the last song. Don’t know who convinced the white guy from Michigan that was okay, but it killed any minuscule amount of respect for him I might have had left. I’ll give the first song the benefit of the doubt, but that’s really hard to do. It’s the only thing on here that is slightly listenable, but is still a bad song. Everything else is completely worthless. Shoving an actual rock up your ass would be a better use of your time. Rating: 2/10

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

Nope

Pure shite

Absolute tosh.

I truly can't believe the number of Kid Rock songs that I know. It doesn't make them any better, but it tells me a lot about my youth...

Those first two tracks hit with a heavy dose of nostalgia and I was feeling that the vitriol for this album was overblown and undeserved. Then I heard the rest. Awful, just awful.

The presence of this garbage discredits the entire list.

Rock rap. Only listened to three songs, don't want to give the wacko any more support

When Lucas sent the thing in the slack I was not sure if this was gonna be one of those things where u have to have refined taste to hate it, clearly not! This is hot ass! Total rubbish. Had to roll up the windows in the car at intersections while this was playing bc having someone I know(or don’t know for that matter) pulling up next to me and hearing this coming from my vehicle is my personal hell. The ego on this guy, my goodness. Anyone who doesn’t have a problem w his music should take a look at the public image and Controversies section of his Wikipedia. apparently he’s a loud n proud republican & gun nut. Public display of the confederate flag?! Are you kidding me. Racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe AND makes bad music, this guy is not my cup of tea nor should he be anyone else’s.

The autotune in the beginning of Only God Knows Why was really awful. However, by the end, the song was fine. For me this album had some mid highs and some deep lows - there were times where it was kind of an interesting hybrid of Metallica and Florida Georgia Line and Notorious B.I.G., but other times the songs (“songs”) were just abrasive and hard to listen to. Like wtf was Fuck Off. ?? I enjoyed about 30% of the album so 3/10

3/10 - I am officially signing the petition for Lucas to go back to rating out of 10. The intro of the first song is so funny to me. The ragtime bit of Cowboy came out of nowhere. This album is probably better than Dub housing yet I want to listen to it less because at least that one was kind of interesting and funny to listen to because of how bad it was. What is with rap being so vulgar about having sex, maybe some people like kid Rock explaining how he aggressively has sex. But I am not that guy. Only God knows why was decent. I am confused as to why where u at rock does not have the part of the album where his mom is calling him asking where he is. Black Chick, White Guy had a story which made it a little better.

Some of it was enjoyable but sometimes the lyrics were kinda cringey and weird

Alright, two awful albums in a row. Funny how we went from illmatic to this- one of the worst rap albums ever- so quickly. It’s actually beyond me how this made the list. Just for max, my rating out of 10 on this one is a 0. Shit sucks.

So you're trying not to let personal bias? Come in to play here as I saw kid Rock and his band perform in 1998 touring for this album at a place called the truck a Darrow in Philadelphia. Now let me tell you.This was one of the most fun shows i've ever seen and I was at about twenty before and a hundred or more cents and it remains one of my greatest live concert experiences. The musician ship on display was actually top.Notch and kid rock himself played every instrument multiple times during the show and it was just a lot of fun. Also I have no real issues with kid rocks, political views.Say what you want, feel what you want.Support whom and what you want. Only problem is that this is incredibly immature.Record with lyrics that not only in their scope but also in their style are about ten years late

Many people hate this just for the Kid Rock of it all. Not me. I hate this just because it sucks.

Not sure kid rock does rap well

When I was younger and knew little of the world some of the more known songs on this album seemed fun. In retrospect, it is a mash up of genres that comes off as over produced and muddled. Bob’s lyrics are awful and the character he pretends to be is shameful. 1/5 It is utter nonsense

Horse shit.

The worst art I have ever consumed. Dreadful. Worse than the thing I had to give 0.0 to because it made me feel sick. I've given it 0.1 because I was physically capable of hearing it, but I didn't enjoy a single second of this. By all accounts, Mr Rock is a middle-class white kid from the respectable suburbs putting on a cap and pretending to be a rock rapper. Go away. Imagine Rage Against The Machine if Tom Morello left, Zach had a lobotomy and they had absolutely nothing of value to say. You're imagine an album 100 times better than this.

What a terrible day to have ears. Not only does this album suck more than anything I've ever listened to before, but the lyrics are so generic to feel insincere but still make me feel gross. To call this music is an insult to music.

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

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

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

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

Just a note that I marked the last album as I didn’t listen, but I did and I was trying to give it a 2 star. My gut says either of those paths will be the same for this album here too. Damn...I didn't realize how much this Now-Trump-Supporting, corn rowed, white trash (his words) trailer boy asshole trying to be a rapper impacted me back in the day. What's crazy, too, is that is based strictly on the radio. Growing up in Texas I constantly heard Bawitdaba, Cowboy (which I think is a Tim and Eric thing? Stevie may have to correct me on "I wanna be a cowboy babyyyy) and Only God Knows Why. Having it be heard on the radio, Kid Rock doesn't sound at all like who he is. At moments he actually sounds a bit like the lead singer for Rage Against the Machine. Poor Kid Rock now is only known for being one of the few artists who publicly show up in Mar-A-Lago constantly, either to perform or just enjoy the company. I wonder if we will get his next album because there's another classic on there with Picture. All in all I am giving this a two star to replace the last album.

What if the Beastie Boys were just one guy, and what if that guy was racist? This is another entry on this website's shitlist, and I totally see why. Sonically, it's abrasive in a way that thinks its cool, but is mostly boring and dated. Lyrically, it's pretty dogshit. How about that one song with autotune crooning? What was he thinking there? I'm keeping two tracks, mostly for laughs, but the rest of this is so devoid of value to me. The last track had me intrigued - "Black Chick White Guy," I was sweating and tugging at my collar as soon as it started. A story-telling type of track, is he going to be sticking up for his partner or black women in general? Well right out of the gate we are treated to a litany of troubling tropes, and then two minutes in he drops the N word. I looked at the runtime......NINE MINUTES LEFT. What the fuck? I couldn't do it, couldn't finish it. If I become a spy and a foreign nation wants to extract America's secrets from me, force me to sit through that song and I'll sing like a canary. The craziest part of all of this is I don't think he's actually racist, I think he's just an idiot. That song was going for something decent, arguably even noble, but he doesn't have the tact or talent to pull it off. Flash-forward 25 years, he's out here telling Joe Rogan that Israel should start bombing Palestinian civilians 30 to 40 thousand at a time. He's like the Dorian Gray painting sitting in America's attic, hosting all of our worst tendencies and stereotypes as a culture. Detroit has produced some fantastic artists, but also some of the most bizarre white boy heroes in all the land: Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Eminem. Nugent has some heat in his catalog, but he might actually be insane now. And Eminem has some great albums as well, but he continues to serve as hip hop's (unwilling) Elvis, so the worst guy you know can say he doesn't like rap, but loves Eminem. Em and Kid are like bug zappers - their low hum and neon glow call out to every kid with a Cookie Monster flatbrim hat, Etnie shoes, and a collection of Monster energy drink cans to punch a hole in his wall, call his mom a bitch, and believe the world is out to get him. But my response to them, and to Kid Rock in particular, in the words of Tim's Kitchen Tips, is "no one cares, no one's listening." Favorite tracks: Cowboy, Wasting Time. Album art: Look at this scuzzball. The lighting is cool, the neon sign with his name in the back also cool, but Kid Rock himself....white boy with wheat-thin braids and a stupid cigar. What is he looking at? Someone to call the N word? I'm out. 1/5

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

The album that no one was waiting for.

Nu metal with rap. I don't like it.

I wanted to give 2 stars for including eminem before he got really big. But "smack-selling" what? Minus one. God, this is worse than normal country.

Хотел сначала поставить 4, но прошло несколько дней, и все треки выветрились из головы. Более того, осталось какое-то неприятное впечатление от прослушивания. Оценка 2.12 явно незаслуженная. Просто люди хейтят Kid Rock. Но я тоже не поставлю высокую оценку - 3.

I tried hard, but it is indeed listenable if you ignore all the words he says and how annoying he is. There are instruments in here that make noise.

This isn't music. It's torture. How did such a talentless guy sell so many albums? How did this album make the top 1001 of all time? I'm genuinely confused.

I really hate anything Kid Rock is or stands for. What a complete loser.

Please replace this album with anything. The new Taylor Swift album would be nice. This became near unlistenable once this unlikeable dicked started rapping about his balls and then brought in a child to accompany him.

Wow this is kinda bad

Oof, dreadful. Managed two and a half tracks and had to bail. Glad it’s out of the way.

Could only make it through four tracks of this trash. Hasn't gotten better with age

The most insipid thing I've ever listened to. No amount of crunchy guitars or Fleetwood Mac samples could save this from being insufferable. Kid Rock is awful. Next.

At first I liked it more than expected, but quickly got sick of it. A lot of poor attempts at sounding like other artists (RATM, Beastie Boys, etc)

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

Terrible

Wow this take a genre I don't like (rap-nu-metal) and makes it worse and it spews out for 70 minutes.

Muistuttaa user generated album of 6330bcd3272e8c04f99e622f... Heh blind channellistä oppiipahan kaverit....

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

Not giving kid rock listens

Ass then, ass now. Politics and Bud Light aside this was never good. I don’t like giving a 1 rating but this is deserving of a 1. Garbage

some of this is still pretty damn infectious, but it all sort of generally sounds like a lot more like shit than i remembered. just wildly under and/or poorly produced.

The worst part about listening to this album was that I was actually enjoying the sound of it. If only his lyrics were better or he was a better person. I feel like I can’t give 1 star bc I didn’t really hate it, but I refuse to go higher than 2.

it's actually okay to not listen to this one. i promise.

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

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

Recuerdo tener este disco y escucharlo algo, pero pasado el momento lo olvidé. Siempre que salía algo solo recordaba que luego se casó con Pamela Anderson. Musicalmente se quiso apuntar a demasiadas cosas: grunge, rap, rock, country, autotune, ... olvidable.

I recently learned that Stephen Spielberg watched Borat with Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock, which insane. Even more insane, upon watching the scene where Pam gets kidnapped in the movie, Kid Rock got insanely jealous (they were dating at the time) and he blew up at her. Anyway he sucks lol

Fuck this guy and his useless music.

Kid rock feels kind of like limp bizkit for classic rock leaning people. There’s some interesting stories lifted up here but overall there’s too much violence and misogyny

I’m not giving this asshole any streams.

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

first listen definitely white trash to the max...it's not the worst thing i've heard but i wouldn't describe it as good

Gross

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

A worse sounding country limp bizkit

Meth Eminem. I can't believe I liked this album when it came out. This is proof I've made mistakes in the past when it comes to music. 1/5

Not as bad as I was expecting from the reviews. Boisterous party music. Cowboy and Wasting Time are fun songs, and there are some hard driving bangers, Devil Without A Cause, I Am The Bullgod and Roving Gangster. If you’d have put this on at a party in 1998 it would have got people bopping around. I’m actually surprised it didn’t have much of an impact in the UK.

Hear me out, I think this album needs to be on this list. The rap-rock genre was absolutely massive at the time, and this album encapsulates all the bad parts of the genre - over-produced, by a guy who was completely fake, terrible lyrics that a teenager would be proud of, an appearence from the flavour of the day (Eminem here). The genre died as quickly as it came about, so this acts as almost a time capsule into why it was a flash in the pan. 1.5* for the music, rounding up to 2 as perversely I think it needs to be on this list even though it's absolute dogwank.

hey did you know that this guys name is kid rock

When you have Limp Bizkit, remove Lethal and Wes Borland, this is what remains: a bland rock album.

I understand why it’s on the list, but it’s so garbage. Really not even worth listening to all the way through.

sounds like an album the government would play to torture terrorists. some catchy stuff but don't understand the appeal.

Very good album

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

Entertaining and less cringy than anticipated.

This is more of a disconnect for me than Korn. I guess it's good perspective though. I feel like this project is truly 'doing the work' of holding hands across the aisle haha

Na ja, manchmal ganz lustig. Vorläufer für spätere Bands.

This was not something I usually listen to. I appreciate the passion and attitude the singer has in his delivery but I don't know if I enjoyed the album as a whole. The only song I really vibes to was "I got one for ya".

I owned this. It was fun for parties.

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

White trash nu metal. Kid Rock has never had subtlety as his strong point, and it shows here.

I'm not listening to this trash. Kid rock is a hot pile of garbage

Based on the reviews I was expecting much worse. Sounds similar to Rage Against the Machine.

Ah, well this was interesting. I didn't know who Kid Rock was, assumed he was a clone of Axel Rose and expected some low grade southern rock sort of thing. Instead I got this lame whiteboy rapper. Couldn't finish - I always listen to every song even if I'm not enjoying it. But this time - I had this down as 1 star from the first song, and that is supposed to be the highlight of the album.

Interesting to see that even in 1998 America had absolutely no quality to control on the shite it churned out. This is on all of you and you should be ashamed.

Not the worst album on here, but not for lack of trying. Music is mostly fine but some of the lyrics are abysmal at best.

Idk Jack White on parempi. Ihan kova meno, mutta tuntuu, että on vähän enemmän imagonkohottelua kuin sydänverellä tehtyä rockmusiikkia? Ja tässä se vähän häiritsee. Onko tässä vitsiä? En saa selvää - sekin häiritsee. Muita tunteita ei herää.

Yllättäjä: jos levy olisi puolet lyhyempi, voisin realistisesti antaa kolmosen. Sanailu on vaivotonta ja huvittavaa, biiseissä on riittävästi ripoteltuja joskin hieman geneerisiä koukkuosuuksia, ja avaushitti on purkissa. 2+

Alright, I am going to take this seriously. "Devil Without a Cause" is the fourth studio album by American musician Kid Rock. This album marked the finalization of his stage persona as a "redneck pimp," for better or worse. Rap rock, rap metal, nu metal and hard rock are the classified genres. And, one song falls into the country rap genre. This album had massive success selling over 14 million copies and critical acclaim for its genre-mixing sound. This party starts with "Bawitdaba. I remember this video and had no idea what to think. A synth opening with the screaming vocal line "My name is Kid..." Heavy metal riffs with Rock rapping. He's setting his persona as the hard partying-bad ass pimp. That describes 90% of this album. "Cowboy" is a little different with its fusion of country and rap. Using a harp, harmonica, piano solo and slide guitar. If this song wasn't still so overplayed, I might actually like or at deal with it. "I am the Bullgod" adds some funk. Otherwise see the comments for the first song. "Wasting Time" is another song a little different with its slower pace. Melodic, more country rock and sounds more like today's Kid Rock. It took getting to song #11 "Only God Knows Why" before Rock decides to sing. It's a ballad and he's not feeling any better even with the fame. If only he had some more of these songs. On the positive side, every song tries some sort of fusion whether it's incorporating heavy metal, rap, country, funk and soul. The problem is that 90% of these end relying on a heavy metal riff which gets old and firmly plants itself in the nu metal category which I, for the most part, hate. The lyrics of the redneck badass pimp gets old especially when the album is 71 minutes long. There are some pretty good slower songs (mentioned) which he should have mixed with less nu metal and I might have liked this. But, what do I know, he's sold 14 million albums. So, party on Robert James Ritchie.

Dogshit person, dogshit album. Negative 5 stars.

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

Not good

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

It’s not for me. Kinda corny, I know a ton of people thought it was a vibe and for that I guess it could be nostalgic but it’s a hard pass for me.

Better than the thing I gave 2s to.

1998 Kid Rock made some good dude rap rock.

He isn't a kid and he doesn't rock. My patience is wearing thin with such medicrity and if the first track has no positive elements then its off.

This was worse than that German band hitting pipes with a hammer

First of all fuck this guy Second the first two songs are not bad. Mostly because I’ve heard them so much on the radio. But seriously get him off this list.

His rap is catchy. I like it.

music is good but lyrics are oudated, sexist

This was awful and amazing

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

Before my group had ever even gotten this album—hell, from the moment I found out this album was on this list at all, I'd already given it a 1. It was one of only two 1 I knew for a fact I was going to give, along with the Limp Bizkit album that's on here. And that's unfair, I get that. As I'm writing this, I haven't even heard the album yet. At most, I've heard the inclusion of the album's opener in Weird Al's "Angry White Boy Polka", Cledus T. Judd's parody of "Cowboy" "Plowboy", and the REGRETTING THE PAST video Rocked did on the album as a whole. And of course that last one especially would lead to me having a biased view-point going in. I'm fully aware of all this. But you gotta realize, even if I wasn't aware of the stuff I just mentioned, everything else Kid Rock's done recently would sure leave me feeling that way as well. This is the guy who would go on to release "AIN'T NOBODY GONNA TELL ME HOW TO LIVE" or whatever it's called and fully pander to the MAGA audience because those are the only people who sort of like him anymore. You give me an album by him, ANY album by him, and you expect me to go in with an unbiased mind? There's nothing listening to it could do to convince me otherwise; that I shouldn't just rate this album based on what I think of Kid Rock as a person and not what it actually contains. Because I know exactly what it is: it's shit-stupid country rap rock from a rich poser white boy selling a fantasy of being a suburban cowboy to other poser white boys. That's all this is, and the fact that it sold so much frankly kind of offends me. The hell was going on in the 90's that people just lapped this shit up? Hell, what is it even doing HERE, on THIS LIST? Normally I'm not one to ask why an album's here because I figure it has to be for SOMETHING, but in this case, I can't figure it out beyond MAYBE that it was important to rap rock? But was it really? Why is this something I HAVE to listen to before I die? Unless you wanna say it's because you can't appreciate the good without hearing what trash sounds like. I could possibly make an argument for Limp Bizkit, but not here. This IS a waste of a spot, completely. You can only imagine what else could have been included if not for this. Hell, I'm just left thinking about all of the albums my group could have gotten instead of this; from the proven timeless classics to shit I just love on a personal level. But no. We gotta waste our time with "FUCK ALL YOU HOES. DETROIT 'TIL I DIE, MOTHERFUCKER." And it's only because I wanna remain consistent in my intent to listen to every album here that I'm even bothering to taint my Spotify history with this sack of shit. So I hope you're happy, Mr. Rock. You've triggered me, at least. ---------------*****--------------- This part was written after I listened to the album, and... See, hours before I figured I may as well get it over with, I had this joke in mind. Imagine: all that preamble, 500 words worth, of me ranting on and on about Kid Rock and this album and the fact that it's on this list, all written before I even heard a second of the album. Then, when I get to the post-conceptions part of the review, I only have four words: "Well... That fucking sucked." You see the humor there, right? Oh, it would have been amusing—at least it would've been to me. Because right from the top, I didn't figure I had anything else to say about it. After everything I said beforehand, what else could listening to the album inspire me to say? Honestly, I WAS kind of considering just not listening to the album and posting that anyway. But I wanted to do my due diligence. I put YouTube in Incognito mode, started up the album, and... After a while, I got so bored of the album I just started watching Rocked's video on it and didn't even pause it. So it's entirely possible I missed some of the grosser lyrics, and, yeah, no doubt I didn't treat this album fairly. But the big singles and the occasional REALLY bad lyric aside, there's just nothing to it. Like every album that was released in the 90's, it's too damn long. There's so much stuff that could've been left out and no one would've missed it. Though unlike with other records I doubt cutting it down would help much. I mean, you'd still be left with Kid Rock's posing about being a "pimp cowboy," which only gets more infuriating every time he brings it up. All I can see is his stupid millionaire mansion. Seriously, Snow had more street cred than him—yeah, the guy who recorded "Informer". And at least Vanilla Ice was a goof so it was fun to laugh at his posing. I'm not even sure if Kid Rock's from Detroit! Lemme put time aside now to mention one thing I liked about this album, before I get into the worst thing. The instrumental for "Wasting Time"? I kinda liked it. Or at least how it sounded coming out of my iPhone's speaker. I thought it was some kinda monk chant that he'd recorded for the album, but I found out later on in the day that, yeah, it's actually a sample of "Second Hand News". I like the version I had in my head better. Speaking of the sampling, by the way, before my writing this I never 100% vibed with how Rocked talked about it on this album because I always got the feeling he thought sampling was cheap. Y'know, that sampling isn't an art form, as has been demonstrated on albums like PAUL'S BOUTIQUE and FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET. But that's just the thing—it's an art form, but the way Kid Rock uses samples is artless. I believe that's more Rocked's point; that every Kid Rock uses a sample, it's something where he could've recorded something original himself, but didn't because he's lazy and wanted to bank on recognizability. But let's get to the worst thing. Simply put, the last track on the album, "Black Chick, White Guy", is disgusting. Even if I understand that it's a true story he's rapping about here—supposedly, anyway—never in my life did I want to hear Kid Rock rap about ninth graders having sex. That's not ALL it's about; it goes from there to be about the consequences, but still. You're damn right I don't know the half of it—and I don't WANT to! So this ending up running on way longer than I thought: over 1,000 words. As I'm writing this, I have no idea if this website will even accept reviews that long; I might end up having to make a Pastebin for it. And of course it's an album as terrible as this that inspires so much writing from me. It's the frustration, and the fact that it's easier to dump about stuff you hate than stuff you love. I mean, I wish I had said nearly as much about MTV UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK or GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD or SIGN "O" THE TIMES" or PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE or 21 instead of wasting my time on Kid Rock. Lemme, then, just summarize this whole thing the way I should have to begin with: this fucking sucks.

W H Y

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

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

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

Rap metal. Second album on this list I couldn't finish listening to. I actually had a higher opinion of Kid Rock before playing this record than I do now. I'm not a big fan of rap metal anyway but this is hot garbage from a total poser. Crappy rhymes and generic music that just serve to grate on my nerves. Only halfway decent song is Cowboy (at least of the first 8 tracks before I gave up).

Sweet baby Jesus on a pogo stick. You couldn't get away from this back when it was released. Did MTv have an *ultra-double-plus-heavy" rotation? If so, this was definitely on it. Cynical production that's a fantastic example of style over substance. I can see it now: Some music execs were sitting around one day brainstorming some ideas. One of them says to the group, "You remember all those songs in the 80s that has a screaming guitar solo or a rap break?" The guy to his left perks up a little, "Yeah...?" "Those were awesome. Everybody loved those songs." "Where are you going with this?" Another guy at the table is sitting up now. Their collective interest is piqued. "What if we made an entire album that was just that? Screaming guitar and rap breaks?" "That would sound amazing! But you have to make sure the rap is performed by a white guy." "Well, obviously it has to play well with white kids in suburbia...." Naw. I couldn't get away from it back then, but I certainly can now.

ah, late 90’s era kid rock… when the only thing shitty about him was his music. honestly, some of the songs are ok, i guess. he has some entertaining lines, but overall still a pretty cringe listen.

Lol, fuck Kid Rock

Gotta be the most self-flatulating, self-aggrandizing album I’ve ever heard. You’re not that cool, kid.

Phew, thank you, next.

Out of principle i refuse to listen to kid rock and instantly rate him one star

2,5

I enjoyed this album.....a classic....far from it. Sounds like he is trying to be Ton Loc. Looking at the reviews it looks like a Political race!!!!!!! Oh well... Fav was Roving Gangster and Where U at Rock.

Liked when he said “drink like a Mick”, “I don’t fuck with fairies”, and he got that child to rap about his ten inch dick. A true time capsule.

I will listen again. I actually really like it.

I’m not down with the ba-wit-da-ba like everyone else, I just can’t stand this guy.

Honestly... better than I thought it would be. Very front loaded though.

I know people love to hate this album but I don't. Am I going to listen to it again? Probably not. Are there some bangers on this album? You bet. Sorry, but "Only God Knows Why" is a legitimately great song. If a more respected band (I'm picturing The Eagles or Journey) came out with it instead, it would have reached stratospheric heights, and it's already a pretty famous song. This music isn't for everybody and at times is incredibly cringy, but Kid Rock carved out his own space in a new genre and arguably, that's worth listening to once. There's no denying that Kid Rock sucks as a human being; he's his own punchline at this point. However, I prefer to adopt the actual opposite of hatred: indifference. The world would be a better place if we stopped giving idiots so much attention.

A time capsule of white boy rage.

Homeschooled Zach de la Rocha. I didn’t know hype music could make you feel tired

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

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

4.6

I couldn't hate this as much as I wanted to. A natural progression from the Beastie Boys merging of punk and hip-hop, but this time with country-tinted grunge. The lyrics are absolutely horrible in some places but very sharp in others.

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

Nice crossover mix of Rap with distorted Rock Riffs!

Trash (white)

Couple of genuine bangers on here, and the mix of genres is def unique but most of his rap flow sounds like summertime girls by LFO. The unironic fuck boy lyrics get very old after a few tracks. Also automatic -2 for rap rock.

This... sucked. Kid Rock is a spoiled white kid from Michigan who ran away from home to be tough. Important for rap rock and fusing country into the genre. Even Eminem thinks Kid Rock went way too far into the drugs, guns, and pimp lifestyle. It just feels ingenuine and too based on creating the image to make this sound

The album is not good, there’s nothing special about the music and the lyrics are laughable. But there’s something to Bawitdaba and cowboy. They aren’t great songs but they are catchy so I have to give this album some credit

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

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

This album has definitely some parts I could enjoy, but -1 for kid rocks overall contribution and -1 for using auto tune this obvious in "only God knows why".

I thought it wasn’t as terrible as the reviews here made it seem. And then the AutoTune track came.

Sounds like a middle age dad living in the suburbs that bought a cabrio and decided to act gangster to go along with it, just trash really

Trash

I've definetly given stuff which was harder to listen to 2 stars but being a complete douche also has to count for something

Very '90's album. could be more enjoyable if he hadn't since then lost his mind.

Didn’t listen but I know and don’t like kid rock

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

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

I didn't hate it lol. It was cringe and I can imagine any edgy 13 year old at the time loving it, but maybe it's so cringeworthy its fun.

The more I listened to this, the more my rating went down. Liked the sound of this to start with, but can't get past the lyrics. Too much ego, too much sexism and there's more to life than drink and drugs.

Rage against the machine from temu.

This was quite a bouncy little jam. Expected it to be awful but it was alright! It did sound like a parody band though 😅

wow this guy is savage 🤓🤠 This got so much better as it went on, really enjoyed some of the later tracks. There is definitely a place for this! Would be a solid 2.5 if I could.

"his dick was metal, her pussy was a magnet" is one of the worst lyrics I've ever heard. 2/5 is generous.

I tried to go in with an open mind. It didn't work. I am the bullgod and black chick, white guy were decent but sound like knockoffs of earlier songs.

Badwitdabba and Cowboy are classics as much as I hate him

Classic

liked it

i cant

The late 90s. Contain is dead. Music is still trying to figure out what it wants to be…. Mistakes were made…

This site owes me 71 minutes. I didn't want to listen to this, but I did it anyway. Just awful. Congratulations to whoever signed this guy, you made some people a bunch of money. 0/5

Wow. It takes something to take the Limp Bizkit template and be unequivocally shitter in every single department. I had low expectations and this dug tunnels under them. Deeeep tunnels.

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

I thought I hated Kid Rock. My memories were of an onanistic misogynist with very dubious values and music of very little value. Then Bawitdaba played and I was willing to put aside my prejudices because it just sounded fun. Maybe I was wrong and I should just say Welcome 2 the party (ode 2 the old school). Then Kid Rock - fake Cowboy - he may think he’s a Devil Without a Cause and a Roving Gangster but I discovered I was Wasting Time coz he is a phoney and a lyricist of very suspect beliefs. What the hell with your offensive songs - I Am the Bullgod and Black chick, white guy. So Where u at Rock, I got one for ya, feel my Fist of rage coz Somebody’s Gotta feel this. Only God knows why this record is so popular because all I wanna say - Kid - is Fuck off.

There are 2-3 songs that I like, but on the whole the album gives me the creeps.

Dude can take a cool riff and make it unlistenable.

Kid Rock is surprisingly multifaceted. He isn't just a gross, redneck, misogynistic edgelord, he also can't rap for shit.

No! Never! The music is terrible, but the man is absolutely vile and the fact that this is on the list at all makes me completely question that viability and judgement of the list. It might just be enough for me to stop getting these daily albums. 0 stars if I could.

Started off strong. Didn’t like the last few songs

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

Good workout album

p838. 1998. 1 star. Foul mouthed white rap without the humour or intelligence of Eminem. Tedious, shouty noise. Why the fuck is this on the list?

Bit embarrassing - could not take it seriously

You lost any credibility you thought you had by including this trash on your list.

Honnêtement moins terrible que je m'attendais, mais ça reste très médiocre. J'imagine que c'est la raison de la nécessité de sa présence ici : démontrer des albums terribles qui ont tout de même eu un impact. Les instrumentations sont souvents bonnes, mais Kid Rock ne sait faire qu'une seule chose comme style de "rap" et ça devient très vite redondant. Plusieurs chansons paraissent plus longues qu'elles ne le sont tellement il a toujours le même flow. Et la balade à la fin est inexcusable. 3/10

Never been a fan of this music or artist.

Kid Rock is a lying misogynistic talentless hack. He doesn’t deserve a review wuth any effort.

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

Hard - rock rapeado, muy energico. Rage aginst the machine revisitado.

it's telling that the first top review over one star is someone boosting their admittedly 3-star review to 5 because they assume people could only dislike this music off the artist's politics, and not because it sounds like the smell of burning hair. this premise is especially false, as it elides what a major piece of shit Kid Rock has proven himself to be outside of his political leanings (and how he's a rich boy who grew up on an estate in the north, not the southern trailer trash he purports to be); it also presupposes the music doesn't sound like the smell of burning hair. which it does.

Language

Didn't expect much. Wasn't disappointed yet was at the same time.

I listened to this on Youtube in an Incognito browser because I didn't want Spotify to remember. If only I could also not remember. The best part of this listening experience was the Youtube ads. Vanilla Ice with metal/country fusion. This is one of the worst albums I have ever listened to.

I'm trying to separate the art from the artist. Some of the more country songs with background singers in them aren't horrible but half of these songs sound like you asked someone who sucks to make a Rage Against the Machine song.

First time hearing a Kid Rock album. It definitely hits hard and has a lot of influences I recognize: Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, and early RHCP. Lyrically amusing, but it’s all a bit manic for my tastes.

Affirmative action for dårlige rappere at sætte den her på listen!! Mid beats og lorte flow :(:( Beastie Boys slipper afsted med den her slags fordi de har en god sans for humor og har lidt ironisk distance, RATM fungerer fordi de rent faktisk har noget på hjerte og noget at sige, men den her slags energi virker ikke når ens tekster bare er "my name's Kid Rock and I'm here to say/I do da rap-rock in a major way". Lyder pinligt! Passer heller ikke helt ind i country boy-æstetikken at han nævner han er fra Detroit hver 3. linie men hvad ved jeg

For lang (~71 minutter for lang). Gad god vide hvad fanden der gik igennem forfatternes hoveder da de besluttede at det her lort skulle på listen. Mindede mig meget om når min lille nevø siger et bandeord han har hørt i børnehaven for at se hvordan de voksne reagerer, men heldigvis har min nevø væsentligt mere respekt respekt for kvinder og minoriteter. Det bedste rap BY FAR var da Eminem dukkede op i et minut, og det er virkelig ikke Eminems bedste arbejde. Beatsene på et par af de mere rockede numre var sjove nok I guess?

Har aldrig bevidst hørt noget med Kid Rock, fordi jeg altid har tænkt på ham som country-type; så det var en glædelig overraskelse at første nummer var så hårdt. Pølsemandens (trailerparkens?) RATM.. Der er en del sange som er "hårde", men det virker bare aldrig som om at han virkelig er sur... De stille sange er virkelig tamme - Ville meget hellere have haft at den her plade var kortere.. 71 minutter....? Guitarerne har en hård lyd, men alle riffs er forglemmelige. Goddamn country auto-tune på "Only God Knows Why", wtf.. 👎 Hvis jeg savnede den her stil, ville jeg langt hellere sætte RATM / Beastie Boys på #EminemStyrerPåFuckOff lol jk, det passede sgu ikke rigtigt ind heller..

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

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

Rock!!!

The singles are just bad music, but the rest of the album is 100x worse. Absolutely unlistenable

DNF-ed honestly Cowboy was the only fun song, nice to see put a face to that meme. But fuuuuuuck this guy and his lazy, vapid lyrics. Holy shiiit Like he features a black woman on a track but her name isn't anywhere in the title. Everything is about how he gets made fun of for his nose and that he liked to smoke crack and drink and get in fights. he's racist and just... god so annoying.

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

This is a real art vs. artist scenario. Do I want to stan Bawitdaba and Cowboy, like my 11 y/o self might demand, or do I realize that this guy is an asshole who makes some stupid songs? Sort of in-between on this one. A lot of this sucks, but I do enjoy a fair number of the songs. Wasting Time is an early example of stealing other music to make a slightly catchier, but somehow slightly worse, version of a song that already exists. Kid Rock sucks, but this album is enjoyably stupid.

Not listening to 70 minutes of this

Rock und Hip Hop. Interessant zu hören. Vorallem im ersten Titel.

Meh

hell no, WTF

The lyrics leave a lot to be desired. Occasionally, there's a decent rhythm. Otherwise, really not good.

Racist

Lmao what a tool. This was a letdown; I've never listened before, and by reputation I had got myself hyped up to hear something truly dreadful and cursed, but instead it was just dull and dumb, dime a dozen

Flashes de MTv y de lo que significó para los que tenemos más de 30: estímulos audiovisuales constantes. Nunca le dí mucha cabida a Kid Rock, por lo que éste es el primer disco que escucho de él: tengo recuerdos lejanos de alguna que otra canción pero nada más. Empieza fuerte, recordándome a Rob Zombie/Nü Metal. Un Beck más oscuro con "Cowboy" y "I Am The Bulldog", más gritón. Vibes sutiles a Scott Weiland. Resumiendo. Buen disco, con altos y bajos, pero buen trabajo.

A trip back to 15. The album was ok. More varied in tone and song lyrics. Some brag rap/rock mixed with good storytelling. Enjoyed it more than I expected, but still can't rate it more than a 3/5 as I really don't understand why it's on here.

Buzzkill for my Christmas Eve

Awful. My ears were bleeding after listening

Because trumpists deserve music too? Let’s get serious for a second. Most artists are human beings, with a range of backgrounds and beliefs. The beloved Rush drummer, Neil Peart, was a passionate believer in Ayn Rand’s objectivist nonsense. Brian May of Queen and Phil Collins of genesis were lifelong conservative voters. George Harrison’s 'Taxman' is, when you think of it, not really pushing a progressive view of taxation. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull recently felt he’ll probably vote conservative. I enjoy all of these people’s music (some more than others.) The point is people whose politics you disagree with can still make great music. Look at Wagner and the festival in Israel. Which leads us to Kid Rock. An avowed trumpist, a pioneer in country rap, a once credible hip hop artist, and a massive hit in that mash up of sweet home Alabama and werewolves of London. The trouble is, ‘forever' aside (a great song on the next album) he just isn’t very good. He’s not bad. But most of it is forgettable pablum. It’s like Eminem decided to go even more white trash, and forgot about how to craft a song. And Eminem is on this… I did struggle with this a bit. Am I being classist? After all, he comes from a fairly lower class background and writes music for ‘white trash’. My personal music collection has a tonne of music written for white trash. I draw the line at racism and try to draw it at sexism. I can listen to the songs of quite horrible people and enjoy them. There are some lovely people whose music I can’t bear. The great sin is not being very good. Kid Rock is notorious but he is no Biggie Smalls. 2.5 stars.

Not sure what I don’t like more - the cover or the music. I remember seeing him do the rounds of the American late shows & just thought he was ridiculous. It’s not a horrible listen, just a pointless one.

Some time in the 90s, the major record companies realized that white boys were buying rap albums. They especially seemed to like sexist and violent gangsta rap. "Hmm,' they thought "I wonder if we could convince those white boys to buy even more albums if we shoe-horned in even more things that they like: heavy metal, southern rock, country music, and some racism. We'll keep the sexism and violence and drug use and gangsta posturing, but better remove any racial politics. That might make them feel uncomfortable" And hence we have Kid Rock! 14 million sales of this rancid diatribe, precision engineered to pander to the worst instincts of white adolescent males. I listened to this all the way through, and now I feel like I need a shower. It successfully ticks all the boxes it meant to, and is schmickly produced for what it is, but the content is just execrable. It did not surprise me when Kid Rock became a vocal Trump supporter. This is garbage.

If your drunk on light beer, high on weed from a gas station and you spend all your money in strippers then this is 5 star music. I'll admit one or to songs are ok but yeah overall pretty bad.

If I could put a zero I would.

Even if you can separate Art from the Artist, this is still hot trash.

This is really bad. It's a terrible genre to start with and it's a bad example of this terrible genre. There is no need to throw fuck around as many times as he does. I curse a lot, and even I thought it was excessive. I guess I can sort of see why it was included in this list from a historical perspective, but it's not good, I don't want to listen to it, and I can't imagine I'll ever listen to it again.

It's 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die because this is the 1 that gives you the aneurysm that kills you.

As terrible as expected

Much ado with little content.

Make it stop

Like the hard rock beats, not so much the misogynistic lyrics

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

I'm getting second hand embarrassment on this one. Will I listen to again: 0%

Parts of this album may be objectively very bad... I don't know. What I do know is this was unironically one of the most entertaining and engaging albums to listen to this far. Kid Rock's raps are mostly fine, and he actually shines on slower rock tracks like Only God Knows Why.

It’s easy to see why this is so hated. For starters he’s just an irritating guy (and that’s based on this album alone, ignoring the fact he’s now a MAGA nutjob). Yeah I know being bratty and offensive is kind of the schtick, but others manage to do it while retaining some likeability. The lyrical content is tediously superficial, the rapping is sub-par, the rock elements are derivative and it’s completely devoid of the charm that good country music has. AND YET… Did I enjoy some of the riffs? Did some of the choruses get stuck in my head? Did my irritation even start to transform into amusement after a while? Guilty, your honour… 1.5 / 2

Words can't do justice to how bad this is. What suburban pre-teens listen to when they're trying to be "hard".

Listening to this album served almost entirely to make me realise a lot of jokes ive heard before are at kid rocks expense and for good reason, rather be listening to icp goddamn

Enjoyed the musical elements however was not a fan of the vocals one bit

1/5 - As a moronic teenager I tried to write rap lyrics, it was terrible and cringe and my friends laughed at me and thus my rap career ended. It seems Kid Rock didnt listen to the laughs of his friends and continued to embarrass himself. How this album sold millions of copies is astounding.

71 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Started bad and got continually worse. 1/5.

Rating: 4/10

This fuckwad appropriated hip hop and trailer trash in one album. No person is better at using great samples so terribly. I’ll never forgive him for telling me to put his balls in my mouth. Also, IT’S FUCKING AN HOUR AND A QUARTER! What the fuck!? I hate this album nearly as much as I hate Kid Rock, and nothing makes me happier than giving him 1 star.

This album gets ALOT of hate.. And I see why, it is extremely cheesy, musically uninteresting. It reminds me of some stuff MGK would make, perhaps the most generic pop-rock I've heard. 'only god knows why' is one of the worst tracks i've ever heard and only god knows why it has 70m streams. I bopped abit to some songs and I'm quite guilty about it.. I guess I'll see you at Kid Rock's next concert, I'll be standing by the Lochness monster. 1.5

Didn't listen, and won't. I was 12 years old in 1998; enough of my life's memories have been tainted by the showerphobic culture vulture's incompetent grunts.

Trashy lyrics. One or 2 decent songs.

I went in with low expectations and was still disappointed. I'm not a hater of rap rock, but Kid Rock doesn't do a good job of mixing the two. Wasting Time was the only song where I felt he found the right balance.

The album was okay but not really my style of music. I didn't like how crude it got at times as that's not something I'm a fan of in songs. I did like the song Fist of rage. I wouldn't listen to the rest of the album again.

I really digged this style of music actually slapped.

Awful

Hip hop. Hard Rock. Bien la parte hard rock, coñazo la de hip hop

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

It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Sure the lyrics are corny, there's no uniform style and the rapping doesn't sound all too great. Some songs are okayish

Weird that I didn't hate it.

Why is this listed under metal?

Mér finnst Kid Rock frekar leiðinlegur karakter en ég verð samt að viðurkenna að það eru alveg hress lög þarna á plötunni.

Kid Rock is trash these days. I think I would have enjoyed this back in the day when Nu Metal was all that and I was super into Limp Bizkit, Korn, etc. But nowadays, meh, and the whole album feels samey. 1*.

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

Passabler Rap Rock.

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

This was a good album, at the time. He did have some talent at the time. However time has not done him any favors. He is an opportunist fascist wanna be who is desperately trying to cling to any relevance he once had. Minus 3 stars for being a fascist.

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

Garbage

started off really well but then bro was trying too hard to be somebody

I’m jumping on this 1 bandwagon. What a load of shit this album is

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

I wasn't looking forward to listening to this, and it was exactly as bad as I expected it to be. It's not as bad as the alt-right drivel he's putting out today, but still not something I would ever choose to listen to again.

Never listened to this back in the day, and I was better off for it. Just drivel, through and through. The singles have some decent riffs at times though. 1.5/5

I vetoed Taylor, but I should have saved that for Kid Rock… credit where it’s due, this has its charms, I think he works better as a white guy trying his hand at Black music, the rock stuff clearly isn’t his wheelhouse at all. More often than not though, it’s a tedious listen. D

As bad as Limp Bizkit. I'm always suspicious of artists who constantly name check themselves on every other track.