Kid Rock is at it once again!
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the very far-right leaning rock musician, pulled out a gun and waved it around in the journalist’s face while using the N-word repeatedly.
Last month, journalist David Meisner joined Kid Rock (real name: Robert James Ritchie), 53, at his Nashville, Tennessee home for an interview. The interview mostly revolved around politics and Kid Rock’s unwavering support of Donald Trump, whom he calls his ‘bestie’.
However, things became a bit unhinged after he drank some wine and at least 3 to 4 Jim Beam and Diet Coke cocktails.
Peisner said, “He became drunk and belligerent. At one point while he was arguing over politics with me, he reached behind his chair and pulled out a gun, proceeding to wave it in my face.”
“And I got a f–king goddamn gun right here if I need it!” he allegedly shouted. “I got them everywhere!”
Despite Kid Rock pulling out a firearm, Peisner said he continued the interview professionally and continued talking to him for over an hour, with rock occasionally and casually dropping racial slurs without flinching.
“He used the N-word several times while recalling old conversations with friends,” Peisner recounted. “It’s worth mentioning these are not the only times Ritchie drops the N-word during my visit. It’d be easy to label this as the rantings of a drunk racist, but as with everything that Ritchie does, it’s hard to know how calculated it all is.”
Over the last decade, Kid Rock, who grew up in the upper-middle class, has grown increasingly polarizing. He went from a fun-loving country rocker to a very outspoken MAGA promoter.
“I’m part of the problem,” he acknowledged. “I’m one of the polarizing people, no question. Sometimes I bitch about other people, then I look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, why don’t you shut the f–k up too?’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Rock made several other disturbing comments about immigrants and Black people, even joking that his middle-aged white butler goes by the racially charged nickname “Uncle Tom.”
However, Peisner also interviewed several of the musician’s former acquaintances, many of whom question how much of Rock’s persona is just bravado to manage “the emotional fallout of a waning career” compared to actually having such right-wing “deep-seated beliefs.”
When the interviewer, whom Rock called a “college snowflake,” asked to leave, the “Bawitdaba” singer put up a fight.
In fact, the pair ended up “chest to chest” with Rock getting into Peisner’s face.
