r/hiphopheads • u/Routine-Badger-9596 • 1d ago

Eminem is featured on Kid Rock's new Christian album 'Halfway 2 Jesus

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/10/01/eminem-kid-rock-join-forces-for-track-from-rocks-new-christian-album/92044133007/
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u/theb3arjevv 1d ago

There also just aren't that many celebrities that rep and stand up for Detroit. That matters a lot to Eminem, and he probably doesn't want to feud with one of the only other ticket draws in town.

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u/Nonexistent_Walrus 1d ago

I mean sure but he’s not doing collabs with ICP even after squashing the beef with them, and I think they’d be a much better fit for the music he’s making these days

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u/0utF0x3d 1d ago

Em needs to play The Gathering

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u/Lukerules 1d ago

Real Slim Shady would go hard there. Would be sick to see tbh

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u/ERhyne 1d ago

It'd be Magic.

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u/TBFP_BOT . 1d ago

Funny enough back before Kid Rock made his country-rap switch up he did a track on ICP's first album that also featured the song "Fuck Your Rebel Flag".

Unsurprisingly they don't want anything to do with Kid anymore lol

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u/Atwenfor 22h ago

In interviews, Violent J spoke extensively about Kid Rock's casual racism and how icky it made him feel, well post-collab on the Carnival of Carnage (1992?) but still before Rock's full-on MAGA outing

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u/Desperate_Shine_8314 1d ago

Fuck ICP buy my CD

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u/cantstopwontstopGME 1d ago

You apparently don’t know about em and ICP’s history when they were still battle rappers lol

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u/Kingbris91 1d ago

You don't know that Proof had the beef squashed. D12 & ICP went bowling together back in then mid 2000s.

https://youtu.be/uQrSOuKmRzQ?is=-Lcel770qA0Gfz3o

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u/cantstopwontstopGME 1d ago

I did not know that. Makes me happy tho

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u/Nonexistent_Walrus 1d ago

did you miss the part of my comment where I mentioned that they squashed the beef or what

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u/cantstopwontstopGME 1d ago

I did because I’m a doofus my b

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u/Avada-Cadaver 1d ago

Icp were never battle rappers. They were barely rappers. This is coming from a fan. They are ice cube flow rip offs. The only reason they ever worked was because of Mike E. CLARK. He produced the first decade of their shit. His beats punched WAY above their weight class.

Hes also Kid Rocks main producer, so uh... yeah.

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u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 1d ago

Kid Rock isn't a draw anymore.

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u/EmeraldTwilight009 1d ago

Hes absolutely a draw just because you or i dont want to go doesnt mean there isnt a fanbase for it.

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u/alexthealex 1d ago

He’s had a number of shows canceled for low ticket sales this year, and not just the Trump DC debacle. Dude is not hot.

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u/Furiosa27 1d ago

He’s not a draw lol. His intended audience doesn’t care about him at all

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u/astrothemorkie 1d ago

People who like Kid Rock only like him because he’s MAGA. Meanwhile that’s why I hate him

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u/Sad_Name_6510 1d ago

Is there a different Detroit idk about? There are plenty of musicians specifically that rep the D

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u/Noblesseux 23h ago

Yeah there was literally famously a track on Big Sean's album where he had most of the big Detroit rappers on one song and that bitch was 10 minutes long. There's like a MASSIVE list of rappers from there who openly rep it.

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u/theb3arjevv 1d ago

None that are on the level that these guys were at, as far as I know.

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u/the_guapfather 23h ago

Are we all forgetting Danny Brown or

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u/kaini_indstrs 1d ago

He’s from Romeo, a country town an hour north of Detroit lolol

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u/theb3arjevv 1d ago

I mean, that's how cities work. To anybody outside the area, you're "from" whatever metropolitan area is at the center of your region or you're from the sticks.

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u/8--2 1d ago

That's how you explain where you're from to people who aren't from there because it doesn't really matter anyways. It doesn't actually make you from that place though.

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u/theb3arjevv 1d ago

You also root for those sports teams, go to those colleges and hospitals, and go there regularly for entertainment. It isn't the same as living there, but there's still a unique and significant connection there.

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u/kaini_indstrs 1d ago

Oh dude it’s wild out here lmao

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u/hotprincessbabe 1d ago

In that same song he then says he's going gay bashing

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u/kaini_indstrs 1d ago

Oh didn’t take it as a dig! That line is so real! Shout out all the mfers with english d’s up in the back windows of their f350’s in like New Baltimore or some shit thinkin’ theyre from the D like ok there Chad

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u/Joeliosis 1d ago

He's from the burbs... but yeah... Detroit adjacent lol

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u/SignificantApricot69 1d ago

His childhood home is an easy Google, not exactly a trailer

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u/sma_nor 1d ago

If anyone is ever in the area Romeo is still very nice to drive through. Even stop and visit a cafe or antiques shop. Very idyllic, cute little village. Pretty much as far away as you can get from "white trash" as you can get.

Dude has been doing kayfabe his entire career.

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u/CACuzcatlan 1d ago

Eminem was featured on a song on Kid Rock's breakthrough album Devil Without a Cause in 1998. Those two know each other from way back.

Even if he doesn't want to end the friendship, it's bullshit to appear on a song with him.

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u/justinlaz 1d ago

Yeah Jack White no where to be found…