Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast

Performer: Kid Rock
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Eight years before Kid Rock gained nationwide fame with his breakthrough album, DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE, the Pimp of the Nation presented listeners with a more generic, fast-rap attempt with his debut album on Jive Records. On 1990's GRITS SANDWICHES FOR BREAKFAST, the high-top-fade-rocking Bob Richie had yet to seriously dabble in rapcore (though there are a handful of Rick Rubin-esque rock samples here), instead opting for a tongue-in-cheek, sex-obsessed, lyrical pranksta style of rap. Kid Rock defines himself as a suburban rhyme specialist on "New York's Not My Home," does his best high-energy Beastie Boys/Run-D.M.C. impression on "With a One-Two," and establishes "pimpin' hoes" as his central concern on a number of cuts ("Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley" and "Wax the Booty"). Though not as unique as subsequent albums nor as skillful as contemporaneous rap records, GRITS SANDWICHES shows that Kid Rock was a genuine lover of hip-hop head, and not simply a novelty.

Self-proclaimed "King of White Trash" (and proud of it), Kid Rock took his rap-meets-rock-meets-country hybrid to the top of the charts. After opening as a bratty hip-hop artist in the Beastie Boys mode in the early-'90s, Kid came back with a vengeance, diminutive rapper Joe C by his side, on the 1998 smash DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE. With a pimp/stud schtick worked to the hilt, he's an outspoken rock & roll spotlight-grabber the likes of which hasn't been seen since the glory days of David Lee Roth. He even betrayed his mellower side on the trail ballad and 2002 hit duet with Sheryl Crow, "Picture."

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