Unsurprisingly, Kid Rock on his MJ please, tells exactly what he thinks of black folks (new interview)

[keond]

How Kid Rock Went From America's Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece

Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans.

www.rollingstone.com

Yea and water is wet, but giving this type of interview to a major publication in 2024 is bold.

excerpts:

WHEN YOU VISIT BOB RITCHIE at his home in the jagged hills outside Nashville, the guy who will likely greet you at the door is a tall, well-dressed, exceedingly polite gentleman who goes by “Uncle Tom.” Because of course he does. Ritchie makes his living as Kid Rock, but a big part of being Kid Rock these days involves doing things that are simultaneously provocative, offensive, and, at least to him, funny. It tracks, then, that a middle-aged white guy who began his career more than three decades ago in thrall of a Black art form, but who has since thrown his lot in with an overwhelmingly white political movement criticized for its racist rhetoric, would have a white butler named after a racial slur aimed at Black people who are overly accommodating to the white establishment. It’s all a little dizzying. Like so much in the world of Kid Rock circa 2024, it leaves you wondering, “Is he serious? Is he fukking with me? Does he himself even know?”

“No. It was the Republicans that freed the fukking slaves!”
“Yes, but the Republicans were the progressive party back then.”
“I know where you’re going with this, and I’ll tell you why I don’t,” Ritchie says. “Because Trick Trick, the hardest-hitting n—-r in Detroit, was like, ‘Dog, you had that shyt right. We need Trump.’ I’ll call him right fukking now.” He dials his phone, but Christian Mathis, the pioneering underground Detroit rapper who goes by Trick Trick, doesn’t pick up. Ritchie turns back to me. “I’m telling you. These dogs are calling me like, ‘Yo, n—-r, you had that one right!’” (Mathis didn’t respond to subsequent messages asking for confirmation of his support for Trump.)
It’s worth mentioning these are not the only times Ritchie drops the n-word during my visit. It’d be easy to label this as the rantings of a drunk racist, but as with everything that Ritchie does, it’s hard to know how calculated it all is. Is he just trying to get a reaction? Is he begging to be pilloried when this story comes out so he can launch into a very public tirade against “cancel culture”? Is this all just a play for more attention? Would any of that make it less shytty?

He shoves his hands toward me. He’s got heavily jeweled rings on two fingers. One says “D,” the other “KR.”
“Detroit and Kid Rock,” I say, pointing at each of them. “Can I go now?”
Ritchie mixes himself another drink and starts picking up the threads of arguments we started hours ago. He calls me a “college snowflake.” He asks how much money I made last year, and when I tell him, he tells me I need a new job. Then he complains about his tax dollars supporting “Black women having children they can’t afford.”
“Look,” I tell him, “there are people who abuse the system but—”

“We call those Black people. Would you agree?”

“No.”

“So, you don’t like Black people?”

“I don’t think Black people abuse the system.”

“You hate Black people?”

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

I don’t support any white rappers in hiphop. I listen to Evidence and that’s about it. Alchemist also.

Everyone else I get extreme culture culture colonizer cosplay vibes from.

None of this suprises me

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This is weird, second time this week I did a random exposal of a celebrity right before they exposed themselves in real life.

His dad was a wealthy conservative, top of his class from MSU's business school, owned a number of auto dealerships and was the chairman of the Detroit Auto Show. Kid Rock grew up on a huge property in a 95% white suburb on the outskirts of Detroit, but his parents also bought multiple vacation homes in Florida. He bought a lot of the equipment to get Kid Rock started when he was a young teen and helped manage Kid Rock's career for some time. You can see he likely got a lot of his right-wing political beliefs from his dad.

Spoiler

All that head start in life, just to write lyrics like

Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy
Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy
Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy
Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy
Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
My name is Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid
Kid Rock

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

That hard "er" racist devil

 

[keond]

This is weird, second time this week I did a random exposal of a celebrity right before they exposed themselves in real life.

Ritchie’s dad loved music, but his taste ran toward rock & roll and classic country. “He didn’t understand what I was doing, rightfully so,” says Ritchie, “this white kid from an upper-middle-class family running around the hood doing all this stuff.”

Bill Ritchie, a registered Republican, had been president and sales manager at Crest Lincoln-Mercury before he bought the dealership outright in 1972. According to testimony he gave to the Federal Trade Commission, unionized mechanics and employees at his dealership went on strike in 1971, the year Bob was born, and the strike turned violent. Bill said his family was threatened. While driving home one night, he was run off the road by a couple of cars. After his next-door neighbor’s front porch was bombed, police apparently told Bill that his house had been the intended target. Bill threatened to hire nonunion workers to replace his striking employees, and ultimately, Bill claimed, the strike ended without him making any concessions.

When I relay this story to Ritchie, he’s never heard it, but it fits comfortably with the man he knew. “He was conflicted on unions,” he says. “He’d always say they started as a great purpose. But at his heyday of the dealership, he was anti-union. I remember him

 

[88m3]

I'm not surprised but that's pretty bold

 

[Elim Garak]

I'm shocked!

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Hopefully this gets some attention

 

[Firefly]

Trump has him and ted Nugent around. Guarantee they speak it freely when they have pow wows.


The country is getting dumber but it's funny. Liberal black folk saying they aren't voting for Biden and all last week been seeing Conservative black folk saying they can't rock with Republicans because they can't control the racism long enough to make them feel welcome and try to have any type of outreach prospects to widen the base to minorities.


Strage ass times we're in brehs........

 

[get these nets]

People still fukk with joe rogan here. His content was posted here yesterday. These hillbilly and white trash MFers know they can say anything with no repercussions.

 

[bigde09]

Use black people as a come up and discard them once you become successful.

A tale as old as time

 

[chiefdogg]

Post Malone next

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

I hope someone stabs this cac fakkit in the gut.

 

[Lord Beasley]

i really feel some type of way about ever liking his music. i didn't love it but i did bop my head to it

 

[Elim Garak]

People still fukk with joe rogan here. His content was posted here yesterday. These hillbilly and white trash MFers know they can say anything with no repercussions.

I don't fukk with Joe Rogan. I posted the thread because it was trending on Twitter. I haven't seen anything beyond those clips for that episode.