Kid Rock’s lack of corporate ties permits him to shrug his shoulders at critics, thriving despite attempts to cancel him.
The musician began his career as a rapper and DJ, releasing his debut album “Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast” in 1990.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed him for an episode scheduled to be broadcast Monday. Mr. Carlson posted a teaser video to his Twitter account under a caption that said “nothing was off the table” in the rare interview.
During the video segment, Carlson asked Kid Rock why he hasn’t been cancelled.
“People aren’t allowed to say what they think,” Carlson said before noting, “you are.”
When the musician replied he was ‘un-cancelable’, Carlson asked why he thought that was.
“I don’t give a f#!k,” responded the musician with a laugh. “I’m not in bed with any big corporate things. At the end of the day, there’s nobody I’m beholden to. No record companies, no corporate interests, no nothing.”
“You can’t cancel me,” he continued. “I love it when they try.”
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And, try they have. A June 2021 edition of “Billboard” chronicled examples of when the performer’s missteps ran afoul of one group or another.
The magazine’s list began with a reminder of his 2004 Super Bowl half-time performance that featured him wearing a poncho made from a U.S. flag he had cut a hole in. The Veterans of Foreign Wars slammed CBS for what they called disrespect of the flag.
After he displayed the Confederate flag on stage during performances in 2011, he was called a racist. Protestors gathered outside an NAACP event honoring Rock, saying his onstage use of the Confederate flag was unacceptable.
“I love America. I love Detroit, and I love black people,” Rock said at the time, adding the flag didn’t reflect his racial attitudes. He claimed its use was throwback tribute to an idol of his, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Animal rights activists pounced on the musician in January 2015 after they learned he went hunting with rock musician Ted Nugent and allegedly killed a cougar.
The advocacy group Common Cause showed little common sense when it tried to have him arrested for violating election law after a promotional stunt of his.
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