Devil Without A Cause.
| Kid Rock
Devil Without A Cause.
Devil Without a Cause is the fourth studio album by Kid Rock. Released on August 18, 1998, the album saw Kid Rock continuing to develop his sound, moving away from the predominately hip hop sound of his previous albums to a largely rap metal, hard rock, nu metal, and rap rock sound, and marked the finalization of his stage persona as a redneck pimp. Additionally, the song "Cowboy" is seen as being instrumental in the development of the fusion genre country rap. - Wikipedia
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CoS
Arguably without a doubt Devil is Kid Rock’s finest work.
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Drowned in Sound
Don’t expect Tool-like depth to greet you when you press play but do expect a lot of feel good songs mixed with some hard raps, some laid back funk and that inevitable Kid Rock swagger that accompanies everything he says and does. The production is a credit to him alone and the music is a huge feather in the hat of TBT.
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ALL MUSIC
this is firmly in the tradition of classic hard rock, and it's the best good-time hard rock album in years (certainly the best of the last three years of the '90s).
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Drowned in Sound
Don’t expect Tool-like depth to greet you when you press play but do expect a lot of feel good songs mixed with some hard raps, some laid back funk and that inevitable Kid Rock swagger that accompanies everything he says and does. The production is a credit to him alone and the music is a huge feather in the hat of TBT.
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ALL MUSIC
The key to its success is that it's never trying to be a hip-hop record. It's simply a monster rock album, as Twisted Brown Trucker turns out thunderous, funky noise -- and that's funky not just in the classic sense, but also in a Southern-fried, white trash sense, as he gives this as much foundation in country as he does hip-hop.
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STEREOGUM- 20th Anniversary
2018 - There are ways in which listening to Devil Without A Cause 20 years after release is even more fun than it was when it first came out, if only because some of those bits are just anachronistic as hell now.
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Dave's Music Database
The Kid makes it all shine with rhymes so clever and irresistible that it’s impossible not to quote them.
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Robert Christgau
Belatedly fulfilling the rap-metal promise of Licensed To Ill, he makes the competition sound clownish, limp, and corny, respectively, and the Eminem cameo is a draw--his flow is surer even if his sound isn't.
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