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It might not make for a great listen, but its swagger and white-trash style make it the second-best record in his catalog.
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The History of Rock, despite being not nearly as funny or fruggable, despite mostly haphazardly handpicking rerecorded renditions of old songs that are no match for new hesher-hop product by upstarts like Kottonmouth Kings and Brougham, and despite leaving such fuzzily boinging Beastie-beatboxed scratch-rap goodies as "Live" and "Classic Rock" in the vault, is still a keeper.
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The album provides hard evidence that the dynamite punch of 1998's Devil Without a Cause album was no fluke.
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Perhaps what makes The History of Rock most interesting -- and what ultimately validates Kid Rock as the real deal -- is that these old tracks prove that his love affair with rap and rock wasn't something he just cooked up to weasel onto MTV's "TRL."
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Rock affirms that he is no overnight sensation...
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 25
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Mixed: 1 out of 25
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Negative: 7 out of 25
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Apr 9, 2012
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DonaldDJul 28, 2007Kid Rock is the bomb
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badassbitchNov 25, 2006its the hsit bringing stuuff back from the old albums and putting unreleased songs on there was great