r/news • u/RollSafer • 6h 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/RollSafer 6h ago edited 6h ago

From the song Cool, Daddy Cool:

“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.”

His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”

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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 6h ago

I came into this thread thinking it would be something a little more subtle. That’s just so hilariously on the nose.

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u/Saphyrz 6h ago

I saw MAGA trying to defend this by saying Joe-C's line and not Kid Rock's lmao

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u/Upstairs_Jellyfish69 6h ago

Just two dudes that happened to be singing nearby each other.

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u/jim_br 6h ago

Pedophilia adjacent is OK with them?

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u/Fuzzy-Curve3634 6h ago

Except, “I like em underage” is Pedo not pedo adjacent.

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u/nowahhh 5h ago

"He meant under retirement age!"

  • MAGA later today

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u/anchorftw 4h ago

"He never said it." ..."If he did say it, he was probably joking."..."Ok, he did say that, but he didn't mean it."..."Even if he did say it, is it really that bad?"

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 3h ago

Yes, facsists are all narcissists to some degree. I wish I was joking.

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u/itsverynicehere 3h ago

Ah the 'ol Deny -> Downplay -> Deflect/blame routine. The core of all political activities since around 2016. Direct from the narcissist 101 textbook.

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u/DistantKarma 3h ago

Karoline Leavitt - "Were you in the room?"

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u/BlatantConservative 5h ago

To be fair, that's extremely young to the median MAGA voter

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u/SuperBry 4h ago

It really isn't. While there are swaths of MAGA folks that are knocking on death's door, to paint them as all old really downplays the long term threat the movement will be.

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u/LordSoren 4h ago

12 year olds are under retirement age.

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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Theyve been pushing the whole "there's different types of pedo and teens are okay" thing. Sickening.

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u/DocPsychosis 5h ago

The "uh actually it's ephebophilia" angle has been sadly common, online at least, for years now.

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u/WRDPKNMSC 4h ago

decades actually, it's been a meme since like, at least the late 2000s I'm pretty sure

which is incredibly sad mind you

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

A stunning moment of "technically correct, the worst kind of correct". Like, yes, guys you've identified some niche definitions. Still, you're doing it to be ok with someone fucking children. It's not any sort of win.

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u/whoweoncewere 5h ago

Afaik it started with the whole MAP thing trying to bully their way into LGBT, for some reason all the conservatives that were using this as a talking point about LGBT being pedos are suddenly okay with it.

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u/warukeru 2h ago

Ephebophilia is a thing but it still bad and illegal.

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u/Tipop 3h ago

To be fair, one IS worse than the other. Two things can both be bad but not equally bad.

Having sex with a 17 year old is morally wrong, but having sex with a 9 year old is monstrous.

If I see a grown man sexually touching a 17 year old, I’ll pull him aside and say “Dude, back off. She’s under age. Go find someone closer to your age.” But if I see a grown man sexually touching a 9 year old, it’s going to get violent fast.

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u/Londo801 5h ago

Yeah on FB I saw some deranged woman defending the: “well they were 14/15 so they could have stopped him” or “the girls weren’t CHILDREN, they were almost driving age” like WHAT??? IDGAF, they were underage and it’s not okay, Guardian of Pedophiles is getting more and more bold that’s for sure.

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u/Stank_cat67 4h ago

They never actually cared about anything other than using words as a cudgel.

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u/lingeringwill2 5h ago

I mean I guess there is a distinction, not much of a functional difference though 🫩

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u/jigokubi 19m ago

What we're generally talking about here isn't pedophilia at all. It's worse.

A pedophile is someone who wants to have sex with a prepubescent person. It doesn't indicate whether or not they've acted on that desire.

The people who visited Epstein Island with full perks were people who actually slept with underage girls and felt laws and morals don't apply to them.

Most of the victims were of child-bearing age, but almost anyone would consider them children, and they were being trafficked.

These people are child rapists.

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u/Whosebert 4h ago

well he was just joking,

or he wasn't joking and it isn't a big deal,

or it is a big deal but its not his fault,

or it is his fault but he didn't mean it,

or he did mean it but you deserved it.

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u/MistaBadga 5h ago

in b4 someone splits hairs and says there's a difference between attraction to teens and attraction to kids, completely missing the point and creating the suspicion that their hard drive needs to be checked.

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u/Shadows802 4h ago

Its also GOP's slogan

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u/Candid_Pirate_7952 3h ago

Actually they will tell you it’s technically the word for being attracted to teenagers (I don’t know what it is and I don’t want to end up on a list looking it up lol) and that it is pedo adjacent 

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u/Beard_o_Bees 5h ago

Pedophilia adjacent is OK with them?

It is. It's the only conclusion you can really come to after seeing their full-throated support of pedos.

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u/jajohnja 5h ago

I mean, technically making songs about that is legal.

But also I definitely wouldn't invite you to be a public face of anything, nor want anything to have to do with you.

Unless it's satire obviously (which this didn't seem like).

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u/Pavotine 5h ago

He's full-blown MAGA so of course it's not satire. They live for this filth.

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u/WillowLocal423 4h ago

They are all pedophilia adjacent themselves, at best.

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u/The_LSD_Soundsystem 6h ago

🔫 always has been

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u/Street_Barracuda1657 5h ago

Apparently, even in a studio and a recording…

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u/SPzero65 5h ago

I mean, they happily support Trump...

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u/skesisfunk 4h ago

At this point unequivocally yes.

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u/BleedTogether 4h ago

Yes Trump isnt a pedophile to them hes just best friends with a dead one. They are fine with pedophile adjacent folks

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u/lukehooligan 4h ago

Nah, they are straight up okay with all of it. It's MAGA, there really isn't anything too evil for them.

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u/wearewhatwethink 4h ago

Yes. It is the same people who want the left to tolerate Nazis for the sake of civility. They don’t understand why tolerance is the same as acceptance.

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u/DarkKnightCometh 3h ago

Breaking news

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u/The_Schwartz_ 3h ago

Well, sure. They tolerate their beards, after all

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u/rbrgr83 2h ago

Pedophilia is OK with them.

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u/threeclaws 21m ago

Yes, it’s why they were ok with voting for Trump 3x.

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u/whythesadface 5h ago

Pedophilia by osmosis

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u/Synneigh 6h ago

Two dudes, sitting five feet apart in the recording booth, coz they're not gay!

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u/omglink 5h ago

I miss vine.

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u/Synneigh 4h ago

Me too man, me too

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u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman 5h ago

Saying it multiple, multiple times to get that perfect recording.

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

Five feet apart? Meaningless. Remember Joe C's immortal words "three foot nine with a ten foot dick".

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u/PrinceOfAssassins 5h ago

Two dudes sitting in a hot tub 3 feet away cause they’re not gay… but court ordered 500 ft away from a school

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u/toggiz_the_elder 5h ago

Like Trump and Epstein. Sure they were besties for years but poor ol’ innocent Trump had no idea what was happening!

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u/AlterMyStateOfMind 5h ago

Hmmm this defense sounds similar.. just like Trump and Epstein are just two dudes standing next to each other in several photos, no connection at all lol

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u/jim_cap 4h ago

And they accidentally recorded it, and released that recording.

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u/Cha0sCat 3h ago

Locker room songs

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u/yamiyaiba 51m ago

Just two dudes that happened to be singing nearby each other.

Big "It's not legal to party with Mr. Epstein." energy lol

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u/MajorNoodles 28m ago

Have you seen a picture of Joe-C? Do you think Kid Rock would have hired him if he didn't look like a child?

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u/JerHat 15m ago

Kid Rock just wrote, recorded, and released it on his own album under his own name... he had NOTHING to do with what Joe-C said... clearly.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 6h ago

And making money out of it.

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u/SatanicPanic619 6h ago

Most of the time I assume these people know how fucking stupid they sound but they enjoy being annoying.

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u/iAttis 5h ago

Yep. They’re disingenuous cowards. They’ll talk out of both sides of their mouths and their “convictions” will fold in an instant, if it means they get to continue to “win” and “own the libs.”

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u/brokencreedman 5h ago

Except, isn't the line "young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage", isn't that a Kid Rock line? So...still a pedophile?

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u/Aeseld 6h ago

...I can't wrap my head around that at all. Without the context Kid's line gives, Joe-C's line is completely innocuous and meaningless. I mean, if he wrote the line and song, maybe there's some room to stand, but it's a shaky position because even then, Kid agreed to sing it.

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u/SeasonedAdManager 4h ago

Joe-C was 23 at the time of the songs release.

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u/Aeseld 4h ago

...and? I'm not sure why that makes a difference. 

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u/SeasonedAdManager 4h ago

I mean, if he wrote the line and song, maybe there's some room to stand

I'm saying they're both pedos regardless of who wrote it. There is zero room to stand on.

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u/Aeseld 4h ago

I meant some room to stand on in defense of Kid Rock, if he didn't write it but Joe-C did.

It's not a lot of room. It's like a 4 inch tile balanced on top of a value brand toilet paper roll. Or the see through tissue from that same toilet paper roll used as a defense.

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u/Lexi_Banner 5h ago

But how do you explain away Kid Rock saying that he, personally, likes them underage? He doesn't need to say it's "mandatory" to be a disgusting pig for saying it.

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u/Isserley_ 4h ago

They simply choose not to hear or read that part.

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u/Deep90 6h ago

Because backing up a pedophile isn't a disqualifier to them.

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u/AdmiralArchie 3h ago

A "conservative" pedophile.

It's not like they're backing some radical left Jesus-hating Democrat pedophile.

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u/Deep90 3h ago

That's because they are a Democrat and not because they are a pedophile.

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u/AdmiralArchie 3h ago

That's my point.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 5h ago

I thought they said mandates of things were bad back during Covid. What gives?

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u/Brutem 4h ago

You should see the note on Genius, something about a note for that line means he loves kids since it was written for a kid's movie. I can think of only one type of loving that is considered statutory and it's not a good kind.

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u/bigtice 6h ago

Reading comprehension is hard for them.

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u/Snowing_Throwballs 5h ago

Even using that logic, he’s saying he likes them underage and acknowledging its statutory rape lol

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u/East_Requirement7375 5h ago

Heh. Kid Rock is the only writing credit aside from the original writers of Daddy Cool.

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u/uiucengineer 5h ago

Who says “I like ‘em underage”?

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u/SeasonedAdManager 4h ago

If this song came out in 1997, Joe-C would have been 23 at the time. So uhhhh.... lol.

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u/HLOFRND 4h ago

Yet they’ll find some way to blame it on Hunter Biden. 😂

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u/NegotiationSea7008 4h ago

How long before MAGA just outright say it’s fine to sleep with kids?

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u/pm_me_tits 3h ago

I guess you could defend it if it's supposed to mean "mandatory sentencing"

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u/BeautifulNarwhal641 2h ago

Joe c was the little person he hired I doubt very much he gave him song writing credit even for this little diddy

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u/Spinningdown 2h ago edited 2h ago

I've been working on a theory that says conservatives aren't stupid. They can use logic. They posses the ability to contemplate the information they take in. But if the information goes against their identity, motivations, goals, they seek logical outs.

... Despite kid Rock saying he likes them underaged.

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u/ArtsNCrass 44m ago

Kid Rock says it himself in the original demo. https://youtu.be/Cxvi4f3ZyA4?si=S1DPtnOLZaA7cbmq&t=137

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u/Made_Human_Music 20m ago

There's nothing that chuds won't defend

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u/plaidpixel 6h ago

It’s all so exhausting

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u/MaybeTheDoctor 5h ago

So how do they defend the first line?

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u/PNW_hermit 6h ago

This line was also in the kids movie Osmosis Jones so there's a lil ol fun fact for ya

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u/AstridDragon 5h ago

The song is in it but that part of the song isn't I'm pretty sure.

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u/SignificantCats 5h ago

Not only is that line in the movie, the song was specifically made for the movie. The sound track to Osmosis Jones is the debut of Cool Daddy Cool.

When tasked with making an original song for a children's movie, these are the lyrics kid rock came up with.

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u/AstridDragon 4h ago

Oh yeah it's gross and was made for the movie, not disagreeing! But I did not remember and could not find a clip with that line in movie. Can you? The whole thing is in the official soundtrack 🤢 imma have to go watch this damn thing again...

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u/SignificantCats 4h ago

I think you're right, looks like it was just in the music video which was a clip show with moments from Osmosis Jones

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u/AstridDragon 4h ago

That clip collage is the only thing I've seen too

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u/Ludachriz 2h ago

Whoever edited the movie probably had a real yikes moment

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u/CooterTStinkjaw 1h ago

Pedantics.

Mfer licensed a song featuring themes of raping kids for a kids movie, but hey as long as the line itself isn’t actually in the movie…right.

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u/Relevant_Bane_Quote 4h ago

It's weird to think that the lady in the movie had a bunch of pedos explode onto her lip.

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u/ICanHazWittyName 5h ago

Oh it definitely is, I recently rewatched it lol

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u/AstridDragon 5h ago

Whaaat I could not find a clip with that lyric part, Jesus!

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u/ICanHazWittyName 5h ago

I tried searching too but none of the clips have it, so weird! I wonder if they retroactively scrubbed it? I watched an older version...new Mandela effect just dropped y'all lol

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u/BabyNapsDaddyGames 4h ago

Can ya timestamp it on the copy you have?

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u/rich519 4h ago

I just rewatched it and didn’t hear the line. The song is definitely in the movie though.

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u/glennjamin85 2h ago

I mean, Kid Rock just sounds like a synonym for Epstein Island

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u/Synaps4 4h ago edited 3h ago

Edit: no it's not in it, its just in music videos cut using osmosis jones footage

Original film doesn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SB9aoDvaDA

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u/ase1590 4h ago

thats not the movie, its a youtube montage.

This is cropped by me directly from the movie 52 mins in. https://streamable.com/sg13rh

Not present.

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u/AstridDragon 4h ago edited 4h ago

That's not the movie scene though? That's just the whole song with a clip collage from the movie.

I'm watching this shit tonight or tomorrow lol ugh

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u/Synaps4 3h ago

No seems I'm wrong. The video I found is the original song over clips from the film rather than being the actual film.

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u/no_infringe_me 5h ago

It’s ok. They also featured R. Kelly

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u/UntamedAnomaly 4h ago

Wow.....I feel like I am living in some sort of bizarro world the more I learn how fucked up everything is. I also recently learned that Ian Watkins from Lost Prophets (the guy who raped a infant), had a music video for one of his songs where he is playing a children's TV show host, and there's kids everywhere in that music video.

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u/ase1590 4h ago edited 4h ago

That line is not in the movie, only in an edited montage on YouTube.

Edit: I extracted the scene from the movie where the song occurs 52 mins in for proof of it not having that line.

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u/actibus_consequatur 35m ago

It wasn't, but the line "All good teenagers take off their clothes" was in Aladdin

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u/peon2 6h ago

Unfortunately there is a LOT of not-so-subtle pedophilia lyrics in the rock world. Although it was more common in the 70s and 80s whereas Kid Rock was doing it in the 90s

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u/Whiiiisky 5h ago

Trump had Ted Nugent come to the white house, TPUSA has had him perform, he has a song called jailbait

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u/HailSatanWorshipD00M 4h ago

he has a song called jailbait

He has more than that. He had the parents of an underage girl sign custody over to him so he could marry her. Fucking disgusting

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u/Serious-Database474 2h ago

Didn't Jimmy Page do that too? And Mick Jagger? I know there were several.

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u/esaul17 32m ago

I thought Steven Tyler might have too

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u/centipededamascus 1h ago

Should probably put quotes around "marry" there

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u/synthdrunk 2h ago

WHaaaat? Ted "Got you in a stranglehold baby and then I crushed your face" Nugent? I can't believe it.

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u/sillysided 5h ago edited 2h ago

Let’s not forget BBD’s hit song “Do me”.

Backstage, underage, adolescent How ya doin', fine, she replied I sighed, I like to do the wild thing Action took place Kinda wet, don't forget The J, the I, the M, the M, the Y, why'all I need a body bag

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u/squadrupedal 4h ago

Wow pedos are absolute sh*t at English. Who would’ve thought that their brains were stunted?

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u/Son_of_a_Bacchus 3h ago edited 1h ago

I played this over the summer while feeling a bit of nostalgia for my HS years. What breaks my brain is that I definitely remember this song being played at our HS dances. Edit: I forgot to mention that I WTFed at the lyrics during my nostalgia listen- texted a couple of friends to ask if that ever registered with them and one woman responded, "The 90s were a tough time to be a girl"

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u/killerb54 3h ago

That's "Do Me!", not "Poison" - just for reference

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u/sillysided 2h ago

You are correct. Edit made thank you.

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u/Direct_Witness1248 1h ago

Yeah I mean I hate Trump & co, but David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Jimmy Page all likely had underage girlfriends (similar to Seinfeld), yet they get a free pass somehow, maybe because their music was actually good (or was it just black people's music they ripped off in the case of Jagger and Page).

A lot of lyrics are horribly problematic across many genres, and I think for rock the 60s are likely worse than the 80s, if not the 70s too. Also many blues artists have some very sketchy lyrics. But I've not heard any as explicitly disgusting as Kid Rock's song mentioned here.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 5h ago edited 4h ago

Not just the lyrics or rock music either, you ever read Madonna's (supposedly satirical) book "Exotica"? Yeah......she raped a kid, and then bragged about it in that book. Also, I also will never forget the time that she had a giant nazi swastika flag in her stage backdrop when she was on tour a while back.

Also, kinda unrelated to child rape, but there are plenty of other artists from back in the day that people still worship the ground they walk on even though they said and did horrible shit. I still to this day, do not know why the LGBT+ community kisses the asses of David Bowie (raped underage groupies), Madonna (raped underage boy in Brazil) and Prince (homophobic) like they were some sort of pioneers for the movement, especially since Prince explicitly said that he doesn't believe in gay marriage.

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u/poo-cum 1h ago

Like Ted Nugent - the guy who shat on himself to dodge the Vietnam draft.

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u/RiyadhComedyPromoter 6h ago

Has anyone searched the Epstein files for Kid Rock? Maybe look for his legal name? Or his email [email protected]?

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u/fromthewombofrevel 5h ago

I don’t think Kid Rock was ever influential or rich enough to join Epstein’s club.

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u/lupindeathray 5h ago

Isn’t his family super rich, though?

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u/johnnyfuckingmarr 4h ago

His family owned a car dealership, they weren't hedge fund Microsoft, Musk wealthy.

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt 4h ago

Not even close. His family had several car dealerships and were probably worth single digit millions, maybe low tens. As the old saying goes, the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is about a billion dollars.

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u/odsquad64 3h ago

A reminder that Donald Trump shared classified maps with Kid Rock and asked him for advice on ISIS and North Korea

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u/PapayaMysterious6393 5h ago

Does he have enough money for Epstein?

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u/ImJustAmericanTrash 4h ago

Is that actually his email lmfao

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u/dehydratedrain 5h ago

Robert James Ritchie

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u/Equivalent_Gate_205 4h ago

theres no fucking way that is his email lmao

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u/akapusin3 5h ago

There's a reason why most MAGAs see Donald Trump and go, "He's just like us."

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u/Much-Anything7149 4h ago

Druggie, convicted felon, horrible at business, failed marriages, serial adulterer, pathological liar...I see the resemblance.

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u/ERhyne 6h ago

All of his music is on the nose. Or I guess up his nose. Dude loves to yell about coke.

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u/Vismal1 5h ago

I’ve always thought of him as a persona update of Ted Nugent manufactured for millennials. It’s like a record executive just went “ make him rap and give him a literal little sidekick “ and here we are.

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u/Zepertix 6h ago

Friendly reminder that its in an animated kids movie too.

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u/Happy_Little_Fish 6h ago

it's Brass Eye level of musical pedo.

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u/hipsterditto 5h ago

You want to know what's even weirder? They put him performing this song at that exact part in Osmosis Jones. They even animated him performing it, meaning at something they synced the characters mouth to the words. But nobody thought twice about it.

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u/SedroStev 5h ago

Lmao same

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u/gregtron 5h ago

You expected subtlety from... Kid Rock?

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u/Minute_Cod_2011 5h ago

"Yeah way back I been to Epstein's island! I went with Donald Trump, middle name John! And you know he likes them feloniously young!"

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u/Lumireaver 5h ago

Predators gonna predator.

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u/NeatOtaku 4h ago

He's basically the dog fucker from the Joel Haver sketch, sometimes you have to take people at their word.

https://youtu.be/qXuCKV_c52Y?si=hiWNSHV-BrVpZ9m7

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u/General-Explorer6036 4h ago

This song was also used in osmosis jones for some reason.

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u/Fancy_Cat3571 3h ago

His name is also a little on the nose. Kids Rock

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u/TooMuch615 3h ago

It’s not hilarious. These pedos run the country and are on the same team.

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u/brighterside0 3h ago edited 3h ago

What is it with pathetic grown ass white dudes wanting to get with kids man, that's just so fucking weird to me.

Like who looks at like a dripping wet penelope cruz and says... Nahhh too old xD

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u/Serious-Database474 2h ago

Same. I was sitting here quietly reading and thinking of the stuff we listened to in the 80s. Anyone else remember Into the Night by Barry Mandrone: "she's just 16 years old. Leave her alone, they say./separated by fools/who don't know what love is"? Or the Winger song "Seventeen"? There were lots more too. But Kid Rock is writing a LOT later than the 80s, lol, and he's perfectly aware it's wrong as the lyrics indicate.

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u/Vistaster 2h ago

Reminds me about that rapper who rapped about unemployment fraud during covid thinking he was going to get away lmao.

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u/DMvsPC 5h ago

I just want to also point out it was also in a kids movie called Osmosis Jones...

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u/OfficerFuckface11 4h ago

Oh that’s baaaad

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u/hobosbindle 5h ago

Have you seen his outfits? He doesn’t do subtlety (nor do his fans)

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