Kid Rock is a 51 year old rapper, singer, songwriter, producer & DJ from Romeo, Michigan who came up as a b-boy for The Beast Crew in the late 80’s. However, he wound up signing to Jive Records & RCA Records for his full-length debut Grit Sandwiches for Breakfast before they cut ties with him due to comparisons to Vanilla Ice. Bobby then dropped The Polyfuze Method & Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp on his independently owned Top Dog Records, but got Atlantic Records to help back Devil Without a Cause & the success of that rap rock classic lead to him shifting away from hip hop to teeter between classic rock & country for the last 2 decades even to this day. This foray has been either hit or miss with me personally, but I can’t deny the success of “Picture” & “All Summer Long” (the latter of which has been revealed in recent years even by the producer Mike E. Clark to have been originally made for the Insane Clown Posse) or how much I enjoyed the Rick Rubin-produced Born Free since it originally came out back when I was in middle school. But given that it’s been a little over 4 years since Sweet Southern Sugar & his homeboy Donald Trump being voted out of office, Kid Rock has seen fit to return with his 12th full-length album.
“Don’t Tell Me How to Live” was not only the worst single of last year, but it pretty much sets the tone for the whole album by bastardizing the Monster Truck joint of the same name referring to millennials as pussies whereas “We the People” follows it up with a temper tantrum against Joe Biden & coming from someone who didn’t even vote for him or Trump in the past election, it’s just very tedious & feels redundant since we don’t even have mask/vaccines mandates here in Michigan anymore as far as I’m concerned. “My Kind of Country” comes through with an annoying country rock ballad talking about liking it rough & real just before the title track is an underwhelming attempt at a hard rock party anthem.
Meanwhile on “Never Quit”, we have Kid Rock returning to country rock territory to talk about fighting like a g leading into the hideous trap/rock fusion “Shakedown” saying nothing’s gonna stop him. “Rockin’” is actually one of the more heartfelt moments on the album taking a southern rock route to talk about becoming a grandfather, but then “The Last Dance” follows it up with a twangy romance ballad.
“See You Again” jumps into acoustic territory singing about missing his lover while “Still Somethin’” mixes some pianos & a guitar expressing his love for rock music. “She’s Your Baby (Now Rock Her)” works in some live drums & horn sections talking about thanking God for your girlfriend whereas “Never Enough” on the other hands sings about a love that’s too much & the heavy auto-tune on his voice sounds so awful.
Following that, “Everything to Me” returns to southern rock turf describing how much his lady means to him & “Cold Beer” follows it up with a more folkier sound talking about summer campfires. “Ala-Fuckin’-Bama” is an awkward ode to the titular state given that Kid Rock isn’t from there at all like he says during the hook while the song “Am What I Am” steers things back to a more rap rock sound talking about being born in the country & raised in the streets.
The penultimate track “The Nashville I Know” comes through with a straight up country jam expressing his love for the Tennessee capital except it’s a lot more tolerable than “Ala-Fuckin’-Bama” is, but at least “50” finishes the album with an introspective country rock tune expressing how he feels about turning 50 a little over a year ago at this point.
Now before anyone reading this review tries to come at me & call me a liberal, I wanna make it clear as day that I’m NOT democratic OR republican because I believe both sides of our 2-party system are equally corrupt. That being said, Bad Reputation is basically RƎVIVAL for conservatives because it’s all over the place & the blatantly obvious lack of focus with the political concept that both albums show. However, I’ll ALWAYS give him credit for being one of Detroit’s first big emcees along with Awesome Dré & Esham. Much like how I’ll always give Eminem his props for his impact on the culture.
Score: 1/5
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To you who put out this story about Kid Rock, know this, and in both elections Kid Rock did vote for Trump.
And the song quote We the People, you forget about the beginning of the song, and how he puts down fauci.
And president Trump want to secure our borders, and how everybody embrace Joe Biden for wanting to do it, but yet putting Trump down for doing so.
And calling Donald Trump racist.
Trump’s not a racist, and the whole world knows this.
Trump just does not like the bad politics, of corrupt politicians who ruined this country over the years, and a matter of fact Trump was the best president since Kennedy.
I too, put Dr fauci down to.
Because this whole thing with the coronavirus.
Fauci’s and lying before the Senate, and Dr fauci knows he’s lying.
And voucher is responsible for worldwide genocide, and that’s all this virus was about. Depopulating the world.
I’ve been a Kid Rock fan from the day he stepped on stage, and made his name known to the world.
But that’s just my opinion, and maybe to you my opinion doesn’t count.
But to the people who read this, know that your story about Kid Rock is BS.
I’ll give you my name, and I’ll give you my email address.
But don’t bother sending me a message back
To me your website is nothing but a bunch of snowflakes running it, and who love to put down those who speak up against the corrupt Society of politicians.
And if you don’t like what I say, that’s fine with me, because we have the Constitution of the United States. And the freedom to speak, although it’s not so popular by the left wing establishment, who wants to silence all of us, and all of us from telling the truth about corruption in politics.
A KID ROCK FAN
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Just keep on rocking in the free world ….leave the politics out of your style man.
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Looks like you got legit hurt by someone having a different opinion, singing about it and getting a lot of support and traction. Poor millennial.
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And you win worst album review ever for your little tantrum over the fact that an artist speaks truth. You are exactly what his lyrics are about. Virtue signalling communist idiot. Look up the term ‘ those useful idiots’ , because that’s what you are.
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“Speaks truth” ? This rich motherfucker doesn’t even speak the thruth considering his own Background. Except you would call growing up in a suburbian Mansion near Detroit being “raised on the streets”.
This Shithead has probably never seen a trailer from the inside before he used them for his videos as decoration.
But considering how much this born rich snowflake is whining about everything I am prone to believe he really thinks he was “raised on the streets” because some highschool dude stole his lunch money or something.
That’s Truth, Kid Rock Style
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No talent mofo uses lyrics from real talent to make up for no talent 🤔 needs to find a real life just saying 🤙
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