In an effort to keep whatever minuscule heat he had conjured up recently at the MTV Video Music Awards, when he got into a scuffle with fellow Pamela Anderson ex, Tommy Lee, singer/rapper Kid Rock recently made some rather bellicose comments directed at rappers Kanye West amd 50 Cent.
While he’ll likely sell a few more records than Kenny Chesney, who griped when he was forgotten amid the Kanye West/50 Cent record sell-off in September, Kid Rock claimed that his upcoming album, Rock & Roll Jesus, “in the long run, [will] sell more records than both of those two put together.” Not very bloody likely, but if it makes Kid Rock feel better about himself, more power to him. Chances are his new album will be more of the same country-tinged rap-rock that fans grew tired of about five years ago.
In a recent interview with Penthouse, Kid Rock said that he thinks he’ll sell 10 million copies of Rock & Roll Jesus before either Graduation or Curtis hit the mark, adding, “Because of the options that are available for getting records out nowadays, I might not be able to move 12 million records [right away], but I do think I have a shot at having a diamond record.”
He further made himself a target of rap fans by slamming the level of skill (and rightfully so), or lack thereof, that current rap music seems to require, saying, “I’m a rapper by nature. I started out as a DJ. To me, hip-hop is the blues music of our day and age. But writing a rap song is 10 times easier than writing a melodic song that’s hopefully going to be around 20 years from now. … I think it’s much harder to come up with melody and chord progression. There’s been some great rap [but] I don’t hear a lot of it lately.”
While he may have a point vis-Ã -vis useless sacks of shit like Soulja Boy, Ying Yang Twins and most of the crap inundating today’s urban radio charts, making a blanket statement that all hip-hop music is essentially a cinch to make compared to the garbage he puts out makes him look like an enormous choad. I predict his new album will sell 400,000 units and he will have to find some other famous broad to date in order to get his name mentioned in print.
