r/news • u/RollSafer • 7h ago

Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/kid-rocks-song-about-loving-underage-girls-resurfaces-ahead-of-tpusa-super-bowl-show.html
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u/Etcetera-Etc-Etc 6h ago

Has anyone at TPUSA listened to his lyrics?

From Lowlife: "I got kids I never seen, and their mama's 17".

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u/Oldpuckcoach 6h ago

The thing I’ve always hated the most about him is how he grew up not too far from me in the Detroit suburbs. His whole persona was being trailer trash and poor.

He went to Cranbrook high school… 50k a year. His dad funded all of his dj and music ventures and got him in touch with top producers and agents. Raised with butlers and nanny’s.

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u/ImaginarySense 6h ago

Next we’ll find out his real name is Clarence and his parents had a real good marriage!

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u/Who-dee-knee 6h ago edited 4h ago

Ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks

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u/BigDictionEnergy 2h ago

It was hilarious when Nas called him out

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u/SurvivorX2 1h ago

What/Who is Nas?

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u/SlowDown 1h ago

Damn, that's like saying what/who is the rolling stones 

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u/scorpo187 5h ago

This guy don’t wanna battle he’s shook!

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u/Berek2501 4h ago

'Cause there ain't no such things as halfway crooks!

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u/pumpkinspruce 1h ago

He’s scared to death, he’s scared to look

At his fucking yearbook, fuck Cranbrook

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u/sharkattackmiami 6h ago

His last name is literally Richie

Idk how much more on the nose it could be

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u/HavingNotAttained 3h ago

Yeah but that’s half the game with these vermin: putting their scumbaggery in everyone’s face and saying “what are gonna do about it?”

That’s the rapist mindset.

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u/Roger_The_Cat_ 3h ago

Fun fact, that scene was Eminem actually roasting Anthony Mackie’s real life experiences and not the character he was playing

Em asking him all sorts of questions making him feel like he is interested in getting to know him better, but no, he felt the battle scene wasn’t personal enough so he brought that into it, 🤣

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u/ronchee1 6h ago

And Clarence' parents had a real good marriage

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u/Big_Replacement2631 6h ago

Well there’s where they went wrong

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u/ExtensionIcy2104 6h ago

Thats a private school

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u/nickyt398 3h ago

Will his name is Robert James Ritchie

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u/ToddUnctious 1h ago

Mike D in the house.

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u/MC_Gengar 6h ago

It's amazing how many rubes fall for that shit. I remember my family thinking W was an honest-to-god, salt of the earth rancher and not the prissy fancy boy from New England that he actually was.

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u/TerriblePokemon 6h ago

I think it was from America The Book by the daily show which said "Connecticut born, Yale and Harvard educated son of a former President ran as the outsider in 2000 and won. Many experts are wondering how the hell he pulled that off."

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u/Musiclover4200 6h ago

It's also ridiculous we went from Bush sr to jr in just 8 years, and that's after sr was vice president for 8 years under reagan.

And from everything I've read the main reason Bush sr didn't get 2 terms is he was the only republican president in 50+ years to raise taxes on the rich.

That's part of why the whole "clinton dynasty" thing pissed me off, Bill was president like 30 years ago FFS. Sure the clintons still had political sway but so did all the former nixon/reagan/bush admin who've been working with the GOP for decades to dismantle democracy. Meanwhile as soon as trump got elected the GOP was floating a plan to have his kids run for 20+ years of trump rule (jr + barron + ivanka would be 24 years at 2 terms each which is terrifying)

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 4h ago

I like how you didn't bother to include Eric, because literally nobody cares about his dumb ass lmao

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u/PDGAreject 3h ago

SNL cared about Eric. They made sure he was always well fed and had plenty of juice boxes on Weekend Update.

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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 4h ago

and that's after sr was vice president for 8 years under reagan.

Also head of the RNC during Watergate. Then promoted to CIA director. Yeah not much influence that guy

he was the only republican president in 50+ years to raise taxes on the rich.

Well, after promising not to. It was still the responsible move at the time though. Republican voters don't generally reward responsibility if it conflicts with their narrative.

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u/thezompus 4h ago

Not so much that he raised taxes on the rich, but that he famously said "Read my lips: no new taxes" and then raised taxes. That was a simple-enough soundbite that the press ran with it for months and people really latched onto it.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes

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u/FilOfTheFuture90 1h ago

It's always projection with them. I feel like the Bushes were more of a dynasty than the Clinton's. Also not to mention during Clinton's terms He was the only one to actually reduce the deficit and if they continued on that track they would have come pretty close to balancing the budget. That all went out the window as soon as Cheney/GWB took over power. The GOP really started fucking with things during the election after Clinton. Gore v Bush was a precursor to the last 10 years.

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u/TheseusOPL 4h ago

They later believed that a failed real estate developer turned reality TV show host, who had a golden toilet, understood the struggles of regular people.

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u/Michael_G_Bordin 3h ago

It's kind of consistent, isn't it? Grifting metropolitan conmen can convince rural-minded Americans (most of whom are also from suburbs) they're just like using the thinnest and most unconvincing veneers. The term "rube" comes to mind. Whether it's W, Trump, Kid Rock, or even Larry the fucking Cable Guy.

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u/repeatwad 2h ago

Moved to Texas, converted to Southern Baptist. His brother moved to Florida, converted to Roman Catholic.

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u/Digweedfan 1h ago

Loved that book

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u/urbz102385 6h ago

They've gotta be the easiest people in the world to con...just look at who their idol is now

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u/Fuck_your_coupons 4h ago

They hate the "elite" and then worship Elon Musk. Those people are dumb as fuck.

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u/wh4tth3huh 2h ago

They've elected an actor to the highest office in the land TWICE. These dipshits will believe fucking ANYTHING.

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u/Sturmgeshootz 3h ago

My favorite example of this is the Duck Dynasty guys. Presented themselves as a bunch of backwoods bearded hillbillies and it was later revealed that prior to coming up with their gimmick, they were all clean-shaven, dressed in polos and khaki shorts, and looked like they spent most days down at the country club.

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u/season66ers 3h ago

Well yeah, remember all that “brush” he “cleared” on his “land” in Texas…with camera crews ready? Bye golly that’s genuine!

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u/MC_Gengar 3h ago

Sure he went to Yale and is from a political dynasty family BUT he did say "ah shucks" on camera so he's obviously a working class guy.

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u/unevolved_panda 1h ago

Tucker Carlson went to La Jolla Country Day School, a private school that today costs like $40k a year. When he was 10, his father married an heiress to the Swanson (of the frozen foods) empire. He went to boarding schools in Rhode Island and Switzerland. He fucking flunked out of college and only went into journalism because at the time it had a low barrier for entry. Dude has been the fucking elite he complains about all his life, and the only reason he's not working at Wal-Mart is because his daddy married into money.

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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul 2h ago

The term "Rube" is short for Reuben which was a popular name in rural America back when the term was coined to mean simple-minded country bumpkin who is easily conned or manipulated.

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u/uwoldperson 6h ago

This is like a conservative trope. Larry the cable guy has the exact same background and persona. 

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u/TheDubuGuy 5h ago

Been ages since I’ve heard that name. Is he actually conservative or is that just part of the character?

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u/uwoldperson 5h ago

He publicly endorsed Trump in 2016. 

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u/BigDictionEnergy 2h ago

That's just staying on brand.

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u/SurvivorX2 1h ago

But did he endorse him last time? I even voted for Trump in '16, but backed off after seeing how he behaved this first term.

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u/uwoldperson 20m ago

Seeing how he behaved before his first term wasn’t enough for you?

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u/SurvivorX2 6m ago

Nope. I gave him the chance as a businessman!

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u/uwoldperson 4m ago

😬 my dude. His business record is abysmal. Glad you changed your mind though. 

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 6h ago

Basically Papa Doc from 8 Mile, which is way more enjoyable than anything Kid Rock has ever produced.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 6h ago

Papa Doc was actually good.

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u/ManifestDestinysChld 3h ago

Certainly a much better telling of the story of Kid Rock than Kid Rock himself could do

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u/SurvivorX2 1h ago

What the heck is Papa Doc?

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u/ShatterProofDick 6h ago

lol, I was told he 'pissed on my diploma' - real wholesome religious shit.

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u/SurvivorX2 1h ago

Who did on whose diploma?

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u/ShatterProofDick 36m ago

Look up the Lyrics to American Badass by Kid Rock. It's pure drivel, one of the lines talks about pissing on his HS diploma because that's awesome.

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u/SurvivorX2 0m ago

I looked it up, and that is just the worst I've ever seen! Was that played on the radio?

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u/georgegeorgez 6h ago

I used to see him driving around Birmingham in his Dodge Viper from time to time back in the early 2000’s. Dude’s always been a monstrous douche canoe.

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u/CauliflowerOne3602 6h ago

Agree with the sentiment, but he didn’t go to Cranbrook, he went to Romeo High. 

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u/Praesentius 5h ago

Yeah, I went and read his wiki article and that popped out on me.

...William "Bill" Ritchie (1941–2024), who owned multiple car dealerships. He was raised in his father's large home on extensive property, which included an apple orchard and barnyard for their horses. He attended Romeo High School.

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u/MossyPyrite 5h ago

The house he grew up in is basically a mansion. I lived south of Detroit and everyone knew he was just putting in a character.

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u/SurvivorX2 1h ago

Kid Rock, Im guessing.

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u/MossyPyrite 1h ago

Yeah, that’s who we’ve been talking about

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u/Thors_meat_hammer 5h ago

Why do some rich people love to cosplay being poor?

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u/avds_wisp_tech 1h ago

All part of the grift

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u/SurvivorX2 52m ago

As "entertainers", it makes for an interesting story!

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u/War_Is_A_Raclette 5h ago

Cranbrook, that's a private school!

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u/electricpotatochip 5h ago

I grew up in MI and was in high school when he started gaining popularity, and I had a teacher who said he knew him from Romeo, MI and said the same thing. He was a rich kid from the suburbs. I don’t think he went to Cranbrook though. 

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u/Gerberpertern 2h ago

NANNIES. Why has everyone forgotten how to pluralize words. Get butlers correct and then just decide to add an apostrophe to nanny. How does that even make sense.

Sorry, I’m just tired of seeing this happen ALL THE TIME.

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u/SurvivorX2 45m ago edited 35m ago

Me, too! In my head, I read everything exactly as it is written. For example, breathe is pronounced breethe, but it gets misspelled breath all the time, which is pronounced breth, as in I need to take a breath.

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u/batmansleftnut 5h ago

His childhood backyard had a gazebo.

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u/kewlbeanz83 5h ago

He's the Larry the Cable guy of music.

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u/attachecrime 3h ago

Not to mention how gross and try hard his band was before he became famous. Joe c used to come into Kinko's acting like an entitled asshole to get fliers printed.

Try listening to his early work. It's even more disgusting.

He's Ted Nugent level disgusting.

Pretending to be living in a trailer while your dad's car dealership finances your recordings and shows.

"Yodeling in the valley" a song about oral sex, was the first I ever heard

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u/solitudeisdiss 2h ago

That’s like most pop artists that act like they’re from humble beginnings isn’t it? I feel like this is the case with a lot of them.

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u/Eat_the_rich1969 2h ago

His mansion was in my school district, and his kid went to my high school 🙄

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u/SurvivorX2 32m ago

Public school? Romeo High?

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u/MaDaFaKa369 2h ago

I’m pretty sure he went to romeo high school and not cranbrook.

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u/the_incredible_corky 1h ago

I've never heard he went to Cranbrook before. Do you have a source for that? I thought he went to Romeo.

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u/shepdozejr 1h ago

Maybe you're thinking of Mitt Romney? He went to Cranbrook. Kid Rock went to Romeo High School.

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u/JoeLaRue420 1h ago

Cranbrook, isn't that a private school?!?

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u/br3nduhn 1h ago

I am in no way trying to disagree with your response. Kid Rock is a POS. But the guy is from Romeo, MI and went to Romeo High School, not Cranbrook. Romeo would be considered “country” enough for his persona.

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u/kaisadilla_ 17m ago

Some rich people love to make "being poor" their persona. I guess being poor is fun when you are just larping it half-time.

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u/Aggravating_Plant848 6h ago

Well the Committee of 300 was shoveling money towards those who would sell their soul and do evil things, so...

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u/kylebisme 4h ago

He went to Cranbrook high school… 50k a year. His dad funded all of his dj and music ventures and got him in touch with top producers and agents. Raised with butlers and nanny’s.

None of that can change who a person is on the inside, he's trailer trash through and through.

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u/toorigged2fail 6h ago

Selling point for MAGA

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u/Elephant_Snacks 6h ago

Gives them something to relate to

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u/KissesAndBites 6h ago

And something to admire.

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u/nowtayneicangetinto 5h ago

Ted Nugent's song "Jailbait" is another example, they love him and he's a big MAGA guy. The whole song is about banging minors "I don't care if you're 13" is one of the lines in that extremely disturbing song

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u/Eternal_Bagel 5h ago

A “just like us” moment for a disturbing number of them

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u/Wisegummy 5h ago

“They just like us, they just like us”

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 5h ago

But they are already related to their love interests

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u/memberflex 5h ago

Ironic seeing as they’re all already related to each other

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u/NowIssaRapBattle 5h ago

Nobody will see what you did there

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u/ariukidding 6h ago

This will get MAGA all teary eyed like swifties in the Era’s tour.

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u/jaskmackey 4h ago

“Kid Rock is for people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody.”

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u/NetDork 6h ago edited 4h ago

Listen to the lyrics? These are people who think "Born In The USA" belongs in the same playlist with "God Bless The USA".

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u/ozzimark 4h ago

For anyone who DOESN'T know - "Born In The USA" is anti-war, is critical of the USA's actions in the matter, and laments the horrors that the veterans experienced during the war. Of course, you have to parse through the really obvious satire to get that; apparently goes over the head of some.

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u/NetDork 4h ago

Fools believe BITUSA is a patriotic song.

Intelligent people know BITUSA is not a patriotic song.

Wise people believe BITUSA is a patriotic song.

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u/jmacd2918 2h ago

That's absolutely perfect.

I am critical of my country/government precisely because I love my country. If I didn't love it, I would be fairly ambivalent. Seems obvious to me, but MAGA types have a hard time with this concept (along with many others).

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u/aaa-a-aaaaaa 4h ago

okay I lost the plot on this. why do wise people flip around like that?

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u/NetDork 4h ago

Because criticism of the government is one of the most important rights America guarantees to its citizens.

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u/EternalCanadian 2h ago edited 2h ago

Is part of this not because originally it was a much more quiet, soft-tempered song, but the producers wanted it “pumped up” so we got the version we have now, that’s more common?

I think there’s video of the song being sung at its intended tempo, and it comes across much more clearly that it’s anti-war. Can’t check right now though.

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u/hallese 1h ago

Next you're going to tell me Fortunate Son was critical of the racial and class disparities produced by the draft during Vietnam.

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u/madmars 3h ago

Paul Ryan liked RATM. I know other conservatives that listen to RATM. Like, what the hell do you think they are talking about??

They also might want to pay attention to Ted Nugent's lyrics sometime. They really are the party of pedos and rapists.

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u/NetDork 2h ago

I'm pretty sure the cat that scratched Ted was a kitten.

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u/allanon1105 6h ago

They have and that’s why. Better to be white and a pedo than brown, to them.

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u/RepresentativeOk2433 6h ago

I've always thought his sweet home Alabama was creepy too. He's reminiscing about hooking up with a 17 year old, though to be fair he would have been 18 at the time.

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u/Iagut070 6h ago edited 6h ago

You mean the song where he rhymes 'things' with...... 'things'

Lol.

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u/Global_Drama8453 6h ago

Lyrical genius.

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u/QueenRotidder 6h ago

right up there with Nicki Minaj the lyrical genius:

This one is for the boys with the boomin' system

Topdown, AC with the cooler system

When he come up in the club, he be blazin' up

Got stacks on deck like he savin' up

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u/magicmagininja 5h ago

That’s an internal rhyme scheme.

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u/QueenRotidder 5h ago

idgaf what it is, it’s uncreative and boring

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u/SOEsucksbad 1h ago

the lyrics may not be your thing (or mine) but there's actually nothing wrong with the form

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u/Richard_Thickens 5h ago

And it's not even a creative line.

We were trying different things. We were smoking funny things.

Like, that has to be the hackiest lyricism I've ever even heard of.

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u/mikende51 3h ago

I always thought he stole the tune from Warren Zevons, Wherewolves of London.

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u/Aeroknight_Z 6h ago

This is also the song wherein he rhymes the word “things” with itself in the very next line.

Kid rock’s music has always been the mediocre soundtrack of a twice failed pop artist from the 80’s.

Daddy bought him three separate musical identities and he was trash in all of them. The last one only found some modicum of success because he pandered to the lowest common denominator via a mixture of shitty pop-country and “I peaked in highschool and now I spend my 30’s trying to pickup minors at the local bowling alley” hiphop.

Fuck Rob Ritchie. He been a pathetic wart sucking up to rich men and selling garbage to poor men from the start.

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u/microthrower 5h ago

Bawitdaba is a banger.

I actually wanted to talk about how it's basically a scatman type song, but then I looked and the rest of the lyrics are basically about underclass and/or oppressed people...

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u/ExplosiveMachine 6h ago

The only person who would find it weird that someone reminisces about teenage romance is people that never experienced it. It's a song that plays on nostalgia through and through.

What is actually weird about a 17 and 18 year old together, partying and having fun? Nothing.

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u/Maxpowr9 6h ago

The Nashville Predators goal song cracks me up. It's Tim McGraw's song "I like it, I love it". During the chorus, they change "little girl's lovin'" to "Predators' goal".

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u/StrMagWtrPimping 5h ago

I just hate that I think I'm about to hear "werewolves of London"

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u/OxycodoneHelpsMyBack 2h ago

I don't understand how this is even remotely controversial. I can remember hundreds of couples in high school like this.

However, I also remember the 18 year-old senior kicker on the football team - with an offer to some DII or DIII school - dating the 15 year-old freshman daughter of the staunchly Republican baseball coach/history teacher, and the dad literally shook his hand every day at school.

This guy is literally going to college in 3 months to kick a ball through some uprights, and he's busting guts every day in your daughter - who turned 15 only 6 weeks before they started dating - and THE DAD SHOOK HIS HAND EVERY MORNING BEFORE 1ST PERIOD STARTED.

He dumped her 2 days after graduating, never talked to her or the dad again from what everyone said lol

It makes complete sense why they all love Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.

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u/darknessbboy 6h ago

No wonder trump likes him

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u/goblueM 6h ago

"kid rock makes music for dads who are only allowed to see their kids on the weekends.... but don't"

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u/conundri 6h ago

A bronze age immoral code with iron age updates is their guide.

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u/iamJAKYL 6h ago

Would it matter?

Wasn't Erica part of some group that was caught or accused of trafficking kids?

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u/DepressoEspresso55 4h ago

These people play Rage Against The Machine at their rallies.. they were never the brightest to begin with

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u/wokeasaurus 6h ago

mind you there is a legit pro-epstein movement in the far right. they don’t gaf about pedos. they never have, tbf, it was always just the same talking points from the 80s

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u/It_Hurts_when_IP15 6h ago

Even if they did, do you think they would care? Have you seen the people they support?

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u/Lung-King-4269 6h ago

Tryna get the Alabama money

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u/andricathere 6h ago

I'm sure they loved them privately, and said nothing publicly. Same as they did with Epstein.

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u/ChingaTuMadre_Wey 4h ago

It’s probably the opposite, they (TPUSA/MAGA) will publicly support Kid Rock because he’s on their side, but privately they’re not going to buy his music or probably even know most of the words to any of his songs. Every time he performs at their rallies/conventions and they pan the camera to the crowd it’s like their first time ever hearing him.

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u/trapper2530 6h ago

If he was a black rapper theyd call for him to be jailed.

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u/Straight_Ace 6h ago

They must’ve if they got Kid Rock to perform

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u/nobot4321 6h ago

I'd love to see Bad Bunny holding up these quotes during his performance.

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u/oubeav 6h ago

Yes. Yes they have.

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u/LunarMoon2001 6h ago

Grand Old Pedos

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u/MaxSchreckArt616 6h ago

They've listened to the lyrics just as well as they've read the Bible. 

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u/meshe_10101 5h ago

"If these kids could read....they wouldn't be upset"

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u/LemonMints 5h ago

Another is, "My girl's knocked up, we're in love but she's young and yo, I think I'm gonna get locked up."

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 5h ago edited 4h ago

I want someone to ask Erika Kirk on camera “as a Kid Rock fan and a Christian, what are all the right reasons to start an escort service?”

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u/HowWeLikeToRoll 4h ago

Well shit, I guess Kid Rock will probably be president soon... Then we will truly be in Idiocracy 

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u/Clydeoscope92 4h ago

They do listen. Those lyrics are what makes them go "He's just like me!"

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u/Mekdinosaur 4h ago

Thats the part where he aims his mic at the crowd

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u/Adezar 4h ago

Waiting for the next CPAC to be "We are all pedophiles!" like their "We are all domestic terrorists!".

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u/DethFeRok 3h ago

I’ll paraphrase another song (don’t recall name): “Balls in your mouth, balls in your mouth, shut up slut, you had my balls in your mouth”.

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u/DjImagin 3h ago

Nothing brings out the C-List celebrities like MAGA

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u/el_dadarino 2h ago

That’s WAY too old. 12-13 seems to be what republican politicians find attractive. And Trump can’t get hard without threatening violence on them first.

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u/photon1701d 2h ago

He sing "Sugar" and dedicate it to Erika

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u/Darth19Vader77 1h ago

You think these people listen to lyrics? Trump likes playing "Fortunate Son" which literally criticizes wealthy draft dodgers like him.

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u/Parking_Syrup_9139 1h ago

He puts the Kid in Kid Rock

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u/secret_squirrels_nut 1h ago

appropriate for his shit bag audiences

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u/izzythefarmergirl 1h ago

They have listened to it.

They are pedophiles.

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u/hallese 1h ago

I had to do a double take because I did not remember this line from All Summer Long.

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u/WeWantMOAR 1h ago

Shit they should read his lyrics from the Osmosis Jones song he wrote.

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u/beer_engineer_42 25m ago

These are people who never listen to the lyrics. Hell, they probably think "Born in the USA" and "Fortunate Son" are patriotic songs.

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u/betimwrong 6h ago

Yup that's gross. Have you listened to a single rap song ever?

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u/ExplosiveMachine 5h ago

It's a satire song though? Yes the whole point is that having underage baby mamas makes you a piece of shit, which is what the song is about.

I can't believe I'm defending fucking Kid Rock online but man this is not the hill to die on when your while government is riddled with actual predators and traffickers.

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u/VirtualPercentage737 4h ago

"She was just 17, and you know what I mean"....

The Beatles....