Everyone’s just telling you he sucks, but he was actually quite popular back in the day. I loved his music in high school but grew out of it as an adult.
He was considered innovative in that he tried to bring rap and hip hop conventions into rock music: especially spoken work lyrics, sampling, collaborations, a distinct persona (“redneck pimp” - yes, really, etc.
Spoken word by itself became a whole subgenre in the late 90s/early 2000s: Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit followed by POD, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc. This subgenre as a whole has aged rather poorly, with even the better bands like Linkin Park being a bit hard to listen to now IMO. However, spoken word sections have persisted in rock and this is perhaps his strongest influence.
What really grew me out of his music was realizing that the stuff I liked was mainly stuff he’d sampled, and what I actually liked was the originals. For example, I liked American Badass until I heard Sad But True and realized he took a great song and made it mediocre.
If you’re really interested, listen to Bawitaba and Cowboy as his two big hits. If you want to hear his sampling, Only God Knows Why, American Badass, and All Summer Long should all be recognizable. But again, he very much is a relic of a genre that itself has aged poorly, so don’t expect to actually enjoy it all that much.
Everyone’s just telling you he sucks, but he was actually quite popular back in the day. I loved his music in high school but grew out of it as an adult.
He was considered innovative in that he tried to bring rap and hip hop conventions into rock music: especially spoken work lyrics, sampling, collaborations, a distinct persona (“redneck pimp” - yes, really, etc.
Spoken word by itself became a whole subgenre in the late 90s/early 2000s: Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit followed by POD, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, etc. This subgenre as a whole has aged rather poorly, with even the better bands like Linkin Park being a bit hard to listen to now IMO. However, spoken word sections have persisted in rock and this is perhaps his strongest influence.
What really grew me out of his music was realizing that the stuff I liked was mainly stuff he’d sampled, and what I actually liked was the originals. For example, I liked American Badass until I heard Sad But True and realized he took a great song and made it mediocre.
If you’re really interested, listen to Bawitaba and Cowboy as his two big hits. If you want to hear his sampling, Only God Knows Why, American Badass, and All Summer Long should all be recognizable. But again, he very much is a relic of a genre that itself has aged poorly, so don’t expect to actually enjoy it all that much.
Actually, strike that, just watch the American Badass music video.
It has:
It’s basically the Kid Rockiest Kid Rock song.
Thank you, extremely comprehensive reply. I will actually check it out.
Ta