Kid Rock consists of Jason Krause (guitar), Jimmy Bones (keyboard, vocals), Kenny Olson (lead guitar), Kid Rock (piano, guitar, vocals), Stefanie Eulinberg (drums, vocals), Uncle Cracker (turntable, vocals).
Kid Rock (real name Robert James Ritchie, born January 17, 1971 in Romeo, Michigan) is a performer who combines many genres of music together ranging from rapcore to even country.
Kid Rock derives his name from his early years of rapping in parking lots and bars, when, so Kid Rock says, people in the audience would remark, "Look at that white kid rock." He dropped "white," and his stage name was born. He began his hip-hop career at the age of 15. He became well-known in a Mount Clemens, Michigan housing project because of his unique style of rapping. He later moved to New York City, where he was said to have lived just below Queen Latifah. He got to know a lot of the area's rappers and landed a tour deal with Ice Cube and Too $hort when he was only 18 years old.
One time in 1991, Kid Rock drew 700 people to The Majestic in Detroit. This show was talked about constantly in the local scene for almost three years.
In 1989, his first album, on the Jive label, was Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, produced by Too $hort, D Nice and others. This defined his outlandish attitude, although the album was not a success. When a college DJ played the song from his album "Yodelin' in the Valley," he was fined $25,000 by the FCC. The president of the university described the song as "the most indecent thing ever heard". After the release of his first album, Rock attended an autograph signing at Record Time in Roseville, Michigan to promote his CD. While there, a young musician got into an argument with him over his rise to fame. This young musician was 17-year-old Marshall Mathers III, who later became famous under the name of Eminem. The two formed a friendship that exists to this day, with each appearing on the others' first successful albums (Eminem doing the last verse of Fuck Off on Devil Without A Cause and Rock doing the cuts on Just Don't Give A Fuck from The Slim Shady LP).
