Ballz in yo Mouth Volume 3

Brenda is my Friend...Always has been, always will be. I do not even count her as a KRAA friend, I just call her friend, she makes one of my best friends happier then i could ever have imagined, and that means she is in my heart.. Sometimes I hate when I include names in my posts, and then forget a name or two or 20...

Today I want to think back and talk about the old school. A day and age when many of you knew not who Kid Rock was or who he would eventually become.

I was a freshman in High School when I first heard Kid Rock... A Friend of mine had a cassette and told me (a hip hop head) to take a listen. I was hooked from the start. I was always into Rap Music since the first time I put my headphones on to listen to some Eazy E and NWA. I loved hearing the stories of the hood that we did not get from the news, we did not (at the time) get in movies, it was this white boys glimpse into a situation or a lifestyle that he could never imagine. I know Rap Music gets a bad reputation in many communities, through the media, and almost everywhere outside of the community we call Hip Hop, but the truth is, many people take the lyrics and the music too literally (sorta like people take me to literally)

Anyways, Back to Kid Rock. I heard the cassette, dubbed it, and couldn't stary away. Kid Rock was the white boy, talkin about white boy shit, and saying it in a way that was genius to me. I was a fan before I could say Aint no party likea Detroit Party. I went right out to the store and Got Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast.. I started passing the Music on to friends who also enjoyed Kid Rock the same way I was enjoying Kid Rock. Back then we didnt have no internet, we didnt have a means to find more music, bootlegs, downloads, we basically statyed on top of things by going to the local shows (Bars, Halls, college town parties)

Soon after Kid was dropped from Jive, the local appearances started to heat up. I remember the first time I met Bob, I was at a College Party in Big Rapids, Mi...I was probably 16 or 17 years old. He performed a show up there, and then showed up at a Party. We talked and got drunk and stoned.. I remember driving Bob to Hot N Now, where we got 30 burgers to take back the party.. It was then that I knew, this dude it alot like me.

The next few years was a constant flow of Kid Rock music, shows, and after parties.. Polyfuze Menthod Days were such a blur. I remember shows at The Ritz in Roseville, The Majestic, Magic Stick, Bullfrog, name a place in Detroit, and I saw a Kid Rock show there.. A Kid Rock show was not just a show, it was a party, The hot bitches from all over the place, the coolest of dudes, just a good time,. Rarely were there fights, rarely was there much trouble, just a drunken good time..

I remember the Bootleg Cassette Series the months leading up to Early Morninh Stoned Pimp. I remember the flyers, I remember going up to the Record XChange in Southgate the day those motherfuckers were released. I remember my first intorduction to the TBT band, and the new Style that would years later make Kid Rock a household name.. I remember EMSP being released, I remember the show that was supposed to Break Kid Rock intot he mainstream, Record Execs all over the place...

I remember Devil without a cause being released. Local interviews where Bob proclaimed that Atlantic was going to make him a star. I remember first hearing Joe C, and playing it his part for all my friends, and watching them run to the store to buy the CD.. I remember months later, Kid Rock still being just a local hero, and running into him at a Grocery store, where he told me, It's gonna blow up, I will Kill myself making sure it does...

I remember seeing him on MTV for the first time, Fashionably Loud.. I remember hearing Howard Stern talk about Woodstock and how he was blown away by Kid Rock...

I remember Kid Rock being Number 1 on TRL...

I remember the pride I had in my Hometown Hero. I remember the Pride I had in saying I was there for the whole ride..

I still have that pride.. I still think back to the days of the oldschool, and I still remember the guy that BUSTED his ass to get where he is today...

Thank You Kid Rock....