After years of speaking mostly to right-wing outlets, Kid Rock recently sat down with a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine, and according to writer David Peisner, their sometimes unhinged chat included Rock ranting about immigration, liberally using the N-word and, at one point, waving a gun in the air. The story features a number of disturbing and off-putting scenes, including Rock casually dropping racial slurs a number of times and the opening bit where the writer notes that Rock’s white butler goes by the racially charged nickname “Uncle Tom.” It also mentions that Rock keeps the original General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard — which famously has a Confederate flag emblazoned on its roof — in a hangar on his 214-acre Nashville estate.
Rock makes sure to tell the writer that Tom is his major domo’s real name, laughing, “don’t give me some s–t in the article.” 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.” Rock then notes, “And I got a f–king g–damn gun right here if I need it! I got them everywhere!” At press time a spokesperson for Rock had not returned Billboard ‘s request for comment the claims in the RS piece.
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