What's to hate about Kid Rock?

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iTunes shaken to the core!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7459796.stm

US music star Kid Rock is refusing to put his albums on iTunes because he says artists do not get paid enough for downloads from the Apple store.

Kid Rock is one of the last few acts not fully signed up to the service.

He said it was based on "an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don't give it to the artists".

Neil S, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link

More like Kid Cock, amirite?

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link

zing!

Neil S, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link

i guess i couldn't be on EVERY 2 Live Crew thread back then...

PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link

he's right about itunes...it's the worst of both worlds for artists.

M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Wal-Mart to the rescue.

Gorge, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link

What's not to hate about Kid Rock?
I hate that you did this first.
More like Kid Cock, amirite?

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:14 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

zing!

-- Neil S, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

YES
The thing is even Kid Rock doesn't believe in Kid Rock anymore.

VeronaInTheClub, Thursday, 19 June 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link

the worst thing about Kid Rock is that what little charm his records used to have is gone now. he doesn't even rap on any of the 3 singles off of his current album, and I sure as hell don't wanna hear that guy sing.

some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link

He kinda raps -- because he's a shitty singer -- on that new tune where he drives around in his speedboat karaoking to a band playing a combination of "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Werewolves of London" badly.

Gorge, Thursday, 19 June 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Plus he's doing everything he possibly can to make bottom-out-of-sight sportsware store warm-up suits and fedora combos fashionable.

Gorge, Thursday, 19 June 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AiXO1pAiA

What a badass!

Cunga, Friday, 14 May 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link

haha wow

a streaker named desire (van smack), Friday, 14 May 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link

filmed during his senior year at yale.

Daniel, Esq., Friday, 14 May 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link

cigarette comes off the ear and back on in how many seconds?

Cunga, Friday, 14 May 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

For all of it's ubiquity 10 years ago, I had no idea that Kid Rock song was called "Bawitdaba".

e-drinks @ the smart bar (kkvgz), Saturday, 11 June 2011 10:16 (twelve years ago) link

I still don't even know what that means!

henry s, Saturday, 11 June 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link

My favorite Kid Rock story is that he was thrown out of a Waffle House in Atlanta a few years ago. Really sums him up.

I wonder what happened, if he was an asshole to the waitress or something. Also, i wish i had been there so i could have tripped him on his way out.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 11 June 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKP_HxRkzs

Looks pretty easy to pick a fight when you have 5 hired bodyguards.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 11 June 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link

as long as i don't have to look at him or listen to his music then i guess i'm pretty okay with him

dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

You gotta admit, this guy is pretty ballsy, ramming his van through Kid Rock's gate and attempting to break into his house, alone, in broad daylight, ON CRUTCHES. Talk about an American Bad-Ass!*

* not an endorsement of criminal activity. Stay in school.

henry s, Saturday, 3 August 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link

Didn't Kid Rock recently like cap his ticket prices at 15 or 20 bucks to keep it affordable? That's kinda admirable, right?

global tetrahedron, Saturday, 3 August 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link

Was Kid Rock's "Only God Knows Why", the first blatant use of Auto-tune in a song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk2fClfOjg

Most places on the net cite Cher's "Believe" as being first, but while that was released as a single in October of 98, Devil Without a Cause was released in August of that year, even thought it didn't seem to start getting hit singles till like summer of 99. Or is there an even lesser known example that predate both?

MarkoP, Saturday, 3 August 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link

Didn't Kid Rock recently like cap his ticket prices at 15 or 20 bucks to keep it affordable? That's kinda admirable, right?

did a stadium tour with tickets capped at $20 through official sellers. which was mainly Wal-Mart.

a solitary sext (sic), Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link

Target marketing at its shrewdest.

The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 August 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link

was kid rock's "only god knows why" a really moving and great song? (yes.)

are you sure it's autotune on that song? (for the record i find it really annoying when downfall-of-all-music youtubers call every form of vocal processing "autotune" -- tho that's obviously not really related to anything in this thread)

lol i believe i purchased a kid rock album at a wal mart once. i probably only listened to it once, too.

dyl, Sunday, 4 August 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link

<i>did a stadium tour with tickets capped at $20 through official sellers. which was mainly Wal-Mart.</i>
Also negotiated beer prices down to $4 each and parking to $0. Plus has ZZ Top and Kool & the Gang opening. So very worth the price of admission, even/especially if you don't drink or stay to watch Kid Rock.

Mike Dixn, Sunday, 4 August 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Wow he's terrible.

carl agatha, Monday, 5 January 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link

I’ve made a fuck-ton of money, but I’ve never made a dishonest dollar.

cf.

I played Barack Obama’s inauguration even though I didn’t vote for him.

example (crüt), Monday, 5 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link

drinking too many funny things and smoking too many funny things

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 5 January 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link

As an ordained minister I don’t look forward to marrying gay people, but I’m not opposed to it.

Any gay who'd want to be married by Kid Rock is not a gay that I wanna know.

MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

I’m always buying more guns. I have everything from a Civil War cannon to an MP5 machine gun and old police guns. If someone invades your house, yeah, you can shoot them. I don’t think crazy people should have guns.

a marvel of construction, this one

Οὖτις, Monday, 5 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/banana1015.com/files/2012/11/Kid-Rock-Nuge.jpg

what's the likelihood that kid rock is literally ted nugent's boring son

da croupier, Monday, 5 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...
one month passes...

"Beyoncé, to me, doesn't have a fucking 'Purple Rain,' but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Old Time Rock & Roll'? People are like, 'Beyoncé's hot. Got a nice fucking ass.' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big tits.' Doesn't really fucking do much for me."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-killer-inside-kid-rock-20150226#ixzz3Sxzx8KkT
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how's life, Friday, 27 February 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link

The gun and cigar combo is nice, but I'm still not convinced this Kid Rock is man enough.

©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 February 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link

"You have to get these pre-1985 with a silencer. I bought it when Obummer came into office, because I'm thinking, 'What if he fuckin' bans guns?' "

ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link

And we all know how that turned out.

how's life, Friday, 27 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link

lmfbo @ Old Time Rock & Roll

example (crüt), Friday, 27 February 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link

Hey, that's one more terrible hit than any of us have ever had.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 February 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link

don't understand Beyoncé? just take those old records off the shelf.

example (crüt), Friday, 27 February 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link

i said fuck high school
pissed on my diploma
smell the aroma

markers, Friday, 27 February 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=15&v=3NzfI7Ath7s

Warning: if you think the "reporting" is depressing, wait until you read the comments underneath.

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 July 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link

eight months pass...
three years pass...

“don’t deadname kid rock” is the funniest take i’ve seen on here in a while

— rod blagojevich innocence project (@CNNRGLDN) August 9, 2019

j., Saturday, 10 August 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link

I thought this was going to be about his childhood home for sale. Richie indeed.

Just got back from a weekend in Detroit, by the way, and got to say the dude loves giving away his money, and also getting his name on things.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 August 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link

this guy's so stupid that he calls himself "Kid," even though he's actually a full-grown adult

del griffith, Saturday, 10 August 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link

That is a very disrespectful way to speak about our future president (or whatever they'll be calling the warlord of the central North American landmass once we devolve into a primarily pog-based economy over the next few years).

Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Saturday, 10 August 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link

They'll call him Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid Rock!

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 August 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link


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