Kid Rock Says Teenage Rebellion Has Gone From Listening To Run DMC & NWA To “I’m Gonna Cut My D*ck Off & Wear A Dress”

Times have definitely changed since I was a kid.

Pretty much every kid goes through a rebellious phase at some point. You’re a teenager who thinks they know everything, so you don’t want to listen to anything your parents say. Everybody’s snuck out of the house at some point, or listened to music that you weren’t supposed to, or replaced your parents’ vodka with water. It happens.

But according to Kid Rock, teens are rebelling in new ways these days…

The rocker joined Bill Maher recently for an episode of his Club Random podcast, and Kid Rock discussed coming to his label with a country song called “Picture” that he wanted to release, after several rock and rap albums early in his career. (They weren’t originally thrilled about it, but obviously it turned out to become a massive hit).

Kid Rock admitted that he wasn’t a country fan as a kid, because that’s what his dad listened to and he wanted to rebel:

“Then hip-hop came out and I’m like, ‘Oh yeah.'”

This led Kid Rock to an observation about how the forms of teenage rebellion have changed since he was a kid:

“Sometimes I think about it and it’s half-joke, half-serious. You know, you rebel and I’m like… ‘I’m gonna f*cking listen to f*cking Run DMC and f*cking NWA.’

But now it’s turned into like, ‘I’m gonna cut my dick off and put a dress on and piss my dad off.'”

Maher didn’t seem to find that as amusing as Kid Rock did, but he admitted that he believes there’s some truth to what he was saying:

“Absolutely some of it is social contagion… Certainly at that age, you’re so susceptible to any f*cking suggestion.

I compared it to entrapment, in the sense that when you get caught for entrapment, it means that you wouldn’t have thought of committing this crime. The FBI had to come in and say, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be great if we blew up the Sears Tower?’…

It’s a little of the same. If you’re constantly talking to kids about the idea that you might not be in the right body, which is true, you might not… There are people whose mind is so oriented the other way that it does make sense to them I think, but not a child to decide this.

The idea that I would have had to deal with that idea even…I could barely deal with what I was dealing with.”

While they didn’t totally agree with each other, Kid Rock and Maher were able to find some common ground in what seems like a pretty common-sense debate. And obviously the whole transgender debate is a hot-button issue right now, but especially given the results of the 2024 election, you’ve gotta think that voters are much more on the side of “leave the children out of it” than some of the policies that the Democrats are pushing right now.

I mean, if Bill Maher and Kid Rock can agree on that much, it seems like a pretty reasonable position to take, no?

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