Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock's breakthrough album and his fourth overall. It was released in 1998 by Atlantic Records and produced by John Travis. The album was certified 11 times Platinum by the RIAA by April 2003.[citation needed] In 2007, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named Devil Without a Cause the 68th best album of all time. At the time it was refreshing sound mixing hardcore rap with metal guitars with a gospel chorus, this album along with Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other" inspired the rap metal movement of the late 90s and early 2000's. The most glaring thing about the album that separated it from the other bands is it contain country and blues elements to the raps in songs such as "Cowboy","Wasting Time" and "I Got One For Ya".
Lyrics range from stoner anthems in" I Am the Bullgod", "Roving Gangster (Rollin)" and "Wasting Time" to real topics like depression in "Only God Knows Why", struggling to find fame in "Devil Without a Cause" and "Somebody's Gotta Feel This". "Black Chick, White Guy, is a 7 minute story of his girlfriend at the time that turned to be like the person she didn't wanna be, like her mother, an alcoholic with three kids from three different men, and her cheating ways almost led Kid Rock to suicide. "Welcome 2 the Party" is a tribute song to old school rap, while "Cowboy" was his prediction of what was waiting from him around the corner when he made it big. "Fist of Rage" is an angry tirade at the "world" and I Got One For Ya", "Fuck Off", which featured Eminem, and "Where U at Rock" boast about girls, money, fame and drugs.
After "Fuck Off" ends, there are a series of messages from Kid Rock's answering machine that introduce the next track. These are actually part of track 13, but the CD labels the start of the actual song as the skip-to point for the track.
"Where U at Rock" – 4:24
"Black Chick, White Guy" – 12:01
Notes: There is a clean version of the album, which removes most of the profanity and innuendo, as well as the songs "Fuck Off", and "Black Chick, White Guy". Both versions feature a techno rock remix of "I Am the Bullgod" as a hidden track. However, on the album's explicit version there is still profanity and innuendo censored out on "Cowboy", the first part of "Welcome 2 the Party", and "I Got One For Ya'". Also, in "Fuck Off", the words "Cancer" and "Homo" were censored out in the second verse.
On the edited copy of the CD, the cover of the CD itself is all black with the name "Kid Rock" at the top. The original, un-edited cover of the CD which is photo of a big middle finger. On the vinyl version there is a small demon performing fellatio.
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