Kid Rock (born Robert James Ritchie on January 17, 1971 in Romeo, MI), is an American singer-songwriter and rapper from Detroit with five Grammy Award nominations. Kid Rock is known for music that incorporates elements of hip-hop, rap metal, blues-rock, hard rock, southern rock, funk and country.

Kid Rock released several studio albums from 1988 that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record ‘Devil Without a Cause’, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, “Bawitdaba”,”Cowboy,” and “Only God Knows Why”.