“Rapper” turned Country Music poseur Kid Rock is trying to stay relevant, allegedly waving a firearm and using the n-word in a new interview.
Rock, real name Robert James Ritchie, recently sat down with writer David Peisner for Rolling Stone magazine. In his article, Peisner describes a particularly unrestrained conversation in which Rock went on a tirade about immigration, frequently used the N-word, and at one point, waved a firearm in the air.
Ritchie is not Southern. He’s not even from Detroit proper as originally implied. The son of a successful car dealership owner, Ritchie infamously grew up on a wealthy suburban estate complete with horses and an apple orchard.
Regardless, the blue-blood Yankee seems to have something of a fetish with taboo elements of Southern culture.
According to Rolling Stone, Ritchie (who no doubt was nicknamed Richie Rich as a kid) owns an original General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard in a hangar on his 214-acre estate in Nashville. Of course, the TV car, named after the famous Civil War general, proudly sports a Confederate flag on its roof.
Kid Rock also notes wearing a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt sporting a Confederate flag on it when he performed alongside members of rap pioneers Run-DMC.
“Nobody said a f–king word,” he insisted of the black members of the legendary group. “No one. That was the thing until all this woke s–t started happening.”
Naturally, Kid Rock, not being a real Southerner, has never had to reconcile what the flag symbolizes. “I was using the Confederate flag because I love Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think it just looks cool,” he dumbly added.
Besides Allegedly Using the N-Word, Kid Rock Has a Weirdly Racially Charged Nickname for His Butler
The Rolling Stone writer also observes that Rock’s white butler is referred to by the racially charged nickname “Uncle Tom.” Rock assures the writer knows that Tom is indeed his butler’s real name, despite the odd pairing with the title “Uncle.”
However, it’s more than clear Ritchie knows what he’s doing when he adds, “Don’t give me some s–t [about Uncle Tom] in the article.”
Eventually, the interview devolves as Kid Rock allegedly ditches white wine in favor of quickly guzzling three or four Jim Beam and Diet (ha!) Cokes.
That’s when Ritchie goes from not-so-great host to full-fledged rasslin’ heel.
“He’s sitting in a dark leather chair, shouting at me about something or other, when he reaches behind the seat. [He] pulls out a black handgun, and waves it around to make some sort of point,” Peisner writes.
Like a totally not insecure and 100% ultra-masculine man, Kid Rock is quoted as saying: “And I got a f–king g–damn gun right here if I need it! I got them everywhere!”
Peisner notes that Kid Rock, who has a bi-racial son from a high school relationship with a Black woman, frequently uses the n-word in the interview.
During the conversation, the writer speculates that a decade after Rock’s last major hit, his shift to the right may be more about coping with the emotional impact of an irrelevant career than any deeply held convictions.
Regardless, it seems Kid Rock is getting exactly what he was hoping for in the explosive Rolling Stone article.
“Just write the most horrific article about me,” a sadly half-in-the-bag Kid Rock pled with the writer before he left his compound. “Do it. It helps me.”