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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums20 years in, Kid Rock, Eminem and ICP are politically relevant and culturally divided
Roll back the clock precisely 20 years, and youd encounter a curious phenomenon bubbling up in Detroit.
September 1997: Kid Rock had just landed a major-label record deal. Little-known Eminem was about to catch Dr. Dres ear and land his own. The face-painted duo Insane Clown Posse was grabbing headlines and hitting the charts amid controversy.
Within 15 months, all would be household names in the wider music world, a strange bit of synchronicity that sparked magazine essays, cultural analysis and no small amount of head-scratching: Detroit had not only managed to produce three white rap acts. It had produced three of the most prominent white rap acts of all time.
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http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/09/16/eminem-kid-rock-icp-detroit-white-rap-1997-2017-politics/671643001/
September 1997: Kid Rock had just landed a major-label record deal. Little-known Eminem was about to catch Dr. Dres ear and land his own. The face-painted duo Insane Clown Posse was grabbing headlines and hitting the charts amid controversy.
Within 15 months, all would be household names in the wider music world, a strange bit of synchronicity that sparked magazine essays, cultural analysis and no small amount of head-scratching: Detroit had not only managed to produce three white rap acts. It had produced three of the most prominent white rap acts of all time.
...
http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/09/16/eminem-kid-rock-icp-detroit-white-rap-1997-2017-politics/671643001/
Eminem is the truth. Kid Rock is a Vanilla Ice spitting hack.
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20 years in, Kid Rock, Eminem and ICP are politically relevant and culturally divided (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
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lunasun
(21,646 posts)1. Good read. Thanks
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)2. Kid Rock is arguably the least talented of the three
Like Trump, he's more a marketeer. That "Sweet Home Alabama again" was such an obvious ploy it actually pissed me off and I turned it off every time it came on.
Eminem is a phenomenal talent, one that Kid Rock will never come close to touching--not that he cares-- and ICP is more a movement, with devoted fans that Kid Rock will also never receive, again, not that he cares. He's got his good ol white nazi boys now
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)3. "Sweet Home Alabama again"
That clown managed to kill two classics, Werewolves Of London and Sweet Home Alabama.