10 Perfect Songs On Terrible Albums
10. I Am The Bullgod - Kid Rock
For most nu metal fans, Kid Rock is supposed to be a distant memory that's best left in the late '90s. Throughout his years of continued releases and dipping his toes into different genres, Mr. Rock has turned himself into one of the best used car salesmen that the rock scene has ever known, talking about how real he is despite growing up in suburban Detroit. If you're in the right headspace though, he seemed to have some sort of potential on his most successful work.
Although Devil Without a Cause is known more nowadays for Bawitdaba's dumbass chorus, I Am the Bullgod seems to be going for something that's a lot more dirty and almost metal in some places...and it actually pulls it off surprisingly well. With not as many obvious samples blaring in the background to remind you of the better music you could be listening to, Kid Rock actually sounds hungry on this track, looking to wallow in all of the excess that go into playing the big rock star.
Granted, it's easy to see Kid Rock playing to his strengths on a song like this as well, since rhymes about sex, drugs, and more drugs are pretty much everything there is to this lyric sheet. For all of the questionable decisions he's made in his lifetime, I Am The Bullgod feels like the quintessential Kid Rock song, looking to call his shot as one of the meanest mammajammas from Detroit (his words, not mine). It's not nearly as badass as he thinks it is, but we're one notch up from Bawitdaba's baby gibberish, and we have to take the victories that we get.