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Kid Rock

Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...

's debut album, released by Jive Records

Jive Records

Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...

 in 1990

1990 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...

. A college radio station, WSUC-FM 90.5 Cortland, NY which played an uncensored

Censorship

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 version of the song "Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley" was fined $23,750 by the FCC

Federal Communications Commission

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. Jive dropped Kid Rock soon after and Kid Rock re-released the album on his own label, Top Dog Records. The album sold only 1,000 copies upon initial release. This remains the only Kid Rock

Kid Rock

Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...

 album to be available at the iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 store.

Oakland rapper Too $hort produced the tracks "Super Rhyme Maker" and "Wax The Booty". KRS-One

KRS-One

Lawrence Krisna Parker , better known by his stage names KRS-One , and Teacha, is an American rapper...

 associate D-Nice

D-Nice

D-Nice is the stage name of discjockey, beatboxer, rapper, producer and photographer who began his career in the mid-1980s with the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions.-Career:...

 was also a producer on the album, and Mike E. Clark

Mike E. Clark

Mike Earl Clark is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan currently signed to Hatchet House.Clark is best known for his work with Insane Clown Posse, for which he has produced nine studio albums...

 helped produce "Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley".

Legacy

As noted by Insane Clown Posse

Insane Clown Posse

Insane Clown Posse is an American hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan. The group is composed of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, who perform under the respective personas of the "wicked clowns" Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Insane Clown Posse performs a style of hardcore hip hop known as horrorcore...

 member Violent J

Joseph Bruce

Joseph Frank "Joe" Bruce is an American rapper, record producer, professional wrestler and actor. Bruce is most commonly known as Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse . He is the co-founder of the record label Psychopathic Records, with fellow ICP rapper Joseph Utsler and their former manager,...

, this album made Kid Rock one of the two biggest rap stars in Detroit in 1990, along with local independent rapper Esham

Esham

Rashaam Attica Smith, better known by his stage name Esham , is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan known for his hallucinogenic style of hip hop which he refers to as "acid rap", which fuses rock-based beats and lyrics involving subjects such as death, drug use, evil, paranoia and...

. However, following the release of the album, Kid Rock's career had began to decline, and he did not make another album until the release of The Polyfuze Method

The Polyfuze Method

The Polyfuze Method is the second album from Kid Rock, released in 1993 on indie label Continuum Records. The album has been long out of print and nearly impossible to find at any store, but can still be found used for sale on the Internet. The Polyfuze Method shows Kid Rock developing a more rap...

1993, which featured a more rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

-oriented sound.

Track listing

1. "Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley" – 4:18
2. "Genuine Article" – 4:42
3. "Cramp Ya Style" – 4:19
4. "New York's Not My Home" – 4:27
5. "Super Rhyme Maker" – 3:37
6. "With a One-Two" – 3:38
7. "Wax the Booty" – 5:20
8. "Pimp of the Nation" – 5:10
9. "Abdul Jabar Cut" – 4:29
10. "Step in Stride" – 3:24
11. "The Upside" – 5:06
12. "Style of X-Pression" – 4:20
13. "Trippin' Over a Rock" – 3:11

Samples

• "Yo Da Lin In The Valley"
  • "Mary Mary" by Run DMC
• "Genuine Article"
  • "Free Your Mind" by The Politicians
    The Politicians
    The Politicians were a rock/new wave/reggae band formed in Tokoroa, New Zealand in March 1981. Originally writing and performing their own songs with such titles as Shift worker,Teacher Teacher, Can't write a love song, Arabian girl, 5 Years time......
    
    
• "Cramp Ya Style"
  • "Cheap Sunglasses" by ZZ Top
    ZZ Top
    ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
    
    
• "New York's Not My Home"
  • "Hot 'n' Nasty" by Humble Pie
    Humble Pie (band)
    Humble Pie was a rock band from England, finding success both in the UK and the US. They are remembered for songs such as "Black Coffee" "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", and "Natural Born Bugie"...
    
    
  • "Flying High Again" by Ozzy Osbourne
    Ozzy Osbourne
    John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
    
    
• "Super Rhyme Maker"
  • "Sucker MC's" by Run DMC
• "With A One Two"-
  • "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers
    The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. The group has sold over 40 million units worldwide throughout their career. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.-Original incarnation:...
    
    
• "Pimp Of The Nation"
  • "Under One Groove" by Parliament
    Parliament
    A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...
    
    
• "The Upside"
  • "The Upside" by Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
    
    
  • "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
    
    

Additional crew

• D Nice – producer
• David Bright – keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Roz Davis – Drums
• Doug E. Doug – Bass
• Patricia Halligan – guitar
• Mike E. Clark
  Mike E. Clark
  Mike Earl Clark is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan currently signed to Hatchet House.Clark is best known for his work with Insane Clown Posse, for which he has produced nine studio albums...
  
   – producer
• Too Short – Mixing, producer
• The Blackman – producer
• Chuck Nice – producer
• The Dice Sound – producer
• D-Square – mixing on "The Upside"
• Kid Rock
  Kid Rock
  Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...
  
  – Guitar, bass, turntable, keyboard, drums, producer