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Kid Rock Reportedly Waves Gun During Interview, Uses Racial Slurs: ‘Write the Most Horrific Article About Me’

Kid Rock repeatedly used the N-word, raged against immigrants and reportedly waved a gun during a contentious interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Near the end, after noting that Rock has switched from sipping white wine to downing three or four Jim Beam and Diet Cokes in quick succession, Peisner writes, “He’s sitting in a dark leather chair, shouting at me about something or other, when he reaches behind the seat, pulls out a black handgun, and waves it around to make some sort of point.” The article traces Rock’s path from a child of privilege in the Detroit suburbs living in a huge house with his Republican dad, to his rise as an ambitious rapper and a libertarian who criticized the GOP’s stance on gay marriage and abortion before his deep-dive into right-wing politics. Peisner says Rock — whose bi-racial son was born from a high school relationship with a Black woman — liberally uses the n-word throughout the interview, in which he speculates that a decade out from his last big hit, the singer’s right wing embrace might be as much about “managing the emotional fallout of a waning career as it is about any deep-seated beliefs.”

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