GRITS SANDWICHES FOR BREAKFAST

Eight years before Kid Rock gained nationwide fame with his breakthrough album, DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE, the Pimp of the Nation presented listeners with a more generic, fast-rap attempt with his debut album on Jive Records. On 1990's GRITS SANDWICHES FOR BREAKFAST, the high-top-fade-rocking Bob Richie had yet to seriously dabble in rapcore (though there are a handful of Rick Rubin-esque rock samples here), instead opting for a tongue-in-cheek, sex-obsessed, lyrical pranksta style of rap. Kid Rock defines himself as a suburban rhyme specialist on "New York's Not My Home," does his best high-energy Beastie Boys/Run-D.M.C. impression on "With a One-Two," and establishes "pimpin' hoes" as his central concern on a number of cuts ("Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley" and "Wax the Booty"). Though not as unique as subsequent albums nor as skillful as contemporaneous rap records, GRITS SANDWICHES shows that Kid Rock was a genuine lover of hip-hop head, and not simply a novelty.

• Genre: Rock and Pop
• Format: CD
• Released: 12/11/1990