20 years in, Kid Rock, Eminem and ICP are politically relevant and culturally divided

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Roll back the clock precisely 20 years, and you’d 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. Dre’s 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.

[lunasun]

1. Good read. Thanks

[ismnotwasm]

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]

3. "Sweet Home Alabama again"

That clown managed to kill two classics, Werewolves Of London and Sweet Home Alabama.