KID ROCK ADMITS RAP METAL WAS 'A FAD'

(Hoo boy! I likes honesty, boy. Honesty is like a big wet fart when you're givin' yer lady a dozen roses... err, somethin' Here's some brutal honesty about rap metal from someone who helped to pioneer the genre)

Despite selling millions of records with his own blend of hard rock and rap, KID ROCK fully admits that he took full advantage of the "fad" that was rap metal. "It was a fad," he says in an interview with The Boston Globe. "I could see it coming like a freight train. And it got watered down." He adds that he tried to pitch his record label a while ago on doing more blues-based rock, but had to win them over by gaining rap-metal success first.

"A lot of people don't know that the first few songs I turned in for Devil Without a Cause were blues-based rock 'n' roll songs," he says of his breakthrough album in 1998. "And the record company had a heart attack. `What are you doing?' they said. `No, no, no.' So to get where I had to go, I had to play along for a minute. And that [rap-metal] I could do in my sleep. So I said, `I'll do it and do it better than anybody else and I'll get established and then go where I want to go.' "

As previously mentioned Kid Rock's latest disc, simply titled Kid Rock and will be released by Lava/Atlantic this coming Tuesday, November 11th, and the first single will be a cover of BAD COMPANY's "Feel Like Makin' Love". Kid Rock will also feature another collaboration with SHERYL CROW, as well as contributions with Billy Gibbons of ZZ TOP, HANK WILLIAMS, JR., and a ballad featuring DAVID ALLAN COE and KENNY CHESNEY.

(Hoo boy! He's gone country... back to his roots. He's gone country... look at them boots... He's gone - Hoo boy, I am pathetic.)