Kid Rock

This release compiles early Kid Rock cuts, initially unheard because of legal issues the Detroit rapper faced a few years before Devil Without A Cause made him a trailer home name. Rock didn't intend for the album to be a follow-up to Devil, instead he used his fame as an opportunity to revamp old tapes with money he didn't have before and also to expose his 10 jillion new fans to the material he recorded in obscurity. The hit "American Bad Ass" gets away with lifting Metallica's "Sad But True" in its entirety, but most of these cuts are more rap than rock.

Call him a fool, call him a savage, call him a pagan sex god, a tattooed love boy, a Murder
City madman with Pabst Blue Ribbon in his veins. But don't call Kid Rock a new artist,
because he's been here for years, even if nobody outside the Detroit methadone clinics
ever heard of him until his hip-hop thrash tantrum Devil Without a Cause. On The History of
Rock, the Bullgod collects odds and sods from his past, mostly either remixed or... More >

Hip-hop as Afro-America's latest gift to hard-rock *ssh*l*s who can't sing ("Dark & Gray," "American Bad Ass"). (Grade - *)