Trivia / Kid Rock

• Black Sheep Hit: "Picture" (a duet with Sheryl Crow) and "All Summer Long" both became crossover hits on the Country Music format.
• Chart Displacement: Along with the two songs mentioned above, his third top 40 hit is "Only God Knows Why", which is even more surprising considering it came from the same album as "Bawitdaba", "Cowboy", and "I Am the Bullgod".
• Fountain of Expies: If any show needs a white Hip-Hop artist, it will either be a clone of him or Eminem.
• He Also Did: Wrote the chorus for "The Shame of Life" by Butthole Surfers in exchange for the band clearing a sample of one of their old songs for a reissue of Kid Rock's second album.
• Missing Episode: Neither The Polyfuze Method nor Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp are on streaming services, due to uncleared Sampling.
• What Could Have Been: Kid Rock's fifth major record label album was originally titled Kid Rock's American Circus and would have consisted of three discs: one disc devoted to Country Music, one disc devoted to Rock, and one disc devoted to Hip Hop. The album also would have featured several guest musicians such as James Hetfield from Metallica. Ultimately the idea was scrapped because Kid Rock felt that making a three-disc album would have been "too pretentious." He again planned to release this exact triple album configuration before the COVID-19 pandemic, but because he would be unable to tour to support an album with three discs during a pandemic, he scrapped most of the material and pared it down for Bad Reputation, which ended up being the worst-reviewed album of his entire career, and possibly lacked cohesion from so many songs being removed.

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