- And how is it that you get all the women
to take their shirts off?
What's the magic behind that?
- They all want to (beep) me.
(laughing)
- [Narrator] That's Kid Rock.
One time Senate hopeful, now a literal grandpa,
advocate of legalizing heroin,
and the President's golf buddy.
Robert James Ritchie was born in Romeo, Michigan in 1971.
While he raps about being straight out of the trailer.
♪ I'm straight out the trailer ♪
- [Narrator] Ritchie actually grew up
in the upper middle class.
His formative years were spent in a home
with a swimming pool, tennis court,
and an apple orchard.
He moved to Detroit as a teen to pursue his love of rap.
He performed as a DJ around the Motor City,
where he got his stage name.
People wanted to come out and see that white kid rock.
Rock's first album, Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast,
came out in 1990.
The album, clearly inspired by Run DMC,
showcased Rock's early rapping chops
and featured a special shout out to his future gold buddy.
"Now, people always ask me and KDC
"if we take this activity as seriously.
"I reply with a sigh rather uniquely,
"and say does Donald Trump have a lot of money?"
The album was a total flop,
and Rock decided to lose his flat top and pivot genres.
After bouncing around record labels,
Rock shed his rap roots after experiencing
a life altering epiphany.
"I realized that I couldn't, basically, be black," he said.
After arriving at this stunning realization,
Rock switched from hiphop to southern rock,
metal, blues, and everything in between.
He signed with Atlantic Records
where he released the album that put him on the map,
1998's Devil Without a Cause.
After it's release, Ritchie successfully
worked his way up the Detroit music ladder,
and soon became a multi-platinum rock and roll icon.
He was living large, doing a ton of drugs,
physically assaulting people,
displaying the Confederate flag at his concerts,
marrying Pamela Anderson,
and even appearing in a sex tape.
- I was actually in bed with a couple of girls, (laughs)
in Florida, and somebody emailed me.
I got this email it says you know some sex tape coming out.
I was like, I got a record coming out like next week.
I go, that's perfect.
- [Narrator] With a limitless background in debauchery,
Rock made the obvious next step
and decided to dip his toes in political waters.
With lyrics like start an escort service
for all the right reasons
and set up shop at the top of Four Seasons,
it's obvious who Rock supported
in the presidential election in 2012,
famous life-long Mormon, Willard Romney.
Better known to the adoring public as Mitt.
(record scratches) Wait, Mitt Romney?
In 2012, Rock joined forces with Romney
on the campaign trail after a pleasant meeting
with the former Massachusetts governor, now Utah senator.
- Kid Rock.
- Rock supported Romney,
because he considered him to be super lame.
"Actually, Romney strikes me as super (beep) honest.
"He's a complete nerd, though,
"that's kind of what I want going on in there."
Rock expanded on issues important to him in 2012.
"I don't give a (beep) if gay people get married," he says.
He then goes on to contradict himself, again.
"I don't love anybody who acts likes a (beep) (beep)."
On the hot button topic of abortion, he says,
"I think they go too far with some of that pro-life stuff.
"I just want some nerds watching my money."
But perhaps, his most important reason
for supporting the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan ticket,
aside from being nerds watching money, was a deal he made.
Rock told The New Yorker that Paul Ryan agreed
that if he and Romney won,
they would convert the White House's bowling alley
into a bow and arrow range for him.
In 2015, even though Obama won re-election
and saved the bowling alley,
it didn't stop Rock from lobbing some arrows elsewhere.
Following the Charleston church massacre
by a white supremacist,
protestors urged Rock to denounce the Confederate flag
he often used as a backdrop for concerts,
even though he was born and raised in the North.
Rock wrote an email to Fox News
for them to relay to the masses.
- And this is a quote, he said,
please tell the people who are protesting
to quote, "kiss my ass."
- [Narrator] In 2016, after supporting Ben Carson
for some reason, Rock switched to support
a former steak salesman, Donald J. Trump,
for the presidency.
- I understand steaks.
- [Narrator] "My feeling, let the (beep) business guy
" run it like a (beep) business.
"And his campaign has been entertaining as (beep)."
When Trump won, he invited Rock to the White House.
- Uh oh, I got the mic.
- [Narrator] For a very entertaining photo op
of Rock, the Trump, and Sarah Palin.
Rock went all in.
He sold pro-Trump merchandise on his online shop.
The shirt showed red states marked as America
and blue states marked as Dumb(beep)istan.
Another says God, guns, and Trump.
And one more, Onald Trump, the D is missing
because it's in every hater's mouth.
- I was like you can suck my.
I was like, what do you think of that?
- [Narrator] In July of 2017, Rock too his very classy
political interests a step further
and teased a Senate run, which was interesting
considering his stance on narcotics.
"They should legalize and tax everything.
"Pot, cocaine, heroin."
- Donald Trump can be president,
I think Kid Rock can be senator.
- [Narrator] Rock announced his campaign
with a tweet showing a picture of a yard sign
which read Kid Rock for U.S. Senate.
He released merch with the same message,
and then stumped for himself in Detroit.
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome
the next senator of the great state of Michigan,
Kid mother(beep) Rock!
- [Narrator] Rock was endorsed by former governor
of New York, George Pataki.
Kid Rock is exactly the kind of candidate
the GOP needs right now, Pataki tweeted.
- [Kid Rock] Kid Rock for Senate has got folks in disarray.
(laughs) Wait till the (beep) hear
Kid Rock for president of the USA.
- [Narrator] A few months later,
Rock set the record straight on Howard Stern.
"(beep) no, I'm not running for Senate.
"Are you kidding me?
"Who couldn't figure that out.
"I'm releasing a new album.
"I'm going on tour, too.
"Are you (beep) (beep) me?"
Apparently, announcing a Senate run
is the new way of saying I'm not running for Senate.
It is unclear just exactly what Kid Rock would look like
in a position of power, but one thing he has made clear
is the way in which he would navigate a war.
- Now one of our guys gets killed?
Bam, wipe it off the face of the map.
That town's gone.
Now you walk in the next town--
- Civilians? - Everything?
- [Narrator] Sound familiar?
- I'm gonna bomb the shit out of 'em.
- [Narrator] A Venn diagram of Trump and Kid Rock
is seemingly just a giant circle.
So it's not surprise that the two hit the links together
to chop it up on the course.
It's unclear or nor whether Rock will position himself
for another run at something,
but his odds of winning might be good
considering there's a former steak salesman
turned reality star at the helm.
We may only be a stone's throw away
from a Rock presidency.
♪ 'Cause wouldn't it be a sight to see ♪
♪ President Kid Rock in Washington D.C. ♪
♪ Standing on the oval office like a G ♪
♪ Holding my dick, ready to address the whole country ♪
♪ I'll look the nation dead in the eyes ♪
♪ Live on TV ♪
♪ And simply tell 'em ♪
♪ You never met a mother(beep) quite like me ♪