The Keith Edwards Show - Kid Rock Is Going Viral Again For The Worst Reason...

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

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Kid Rock is going viral again. Kid Rock who has been labeled Hillbilly Vanilli off of Millie Vanilli. And he, of course, went viral last week because of the lip-sinking he did for the Turning Point USA. Half-Hatime show, the halftime show for white people who can't stand that someone can speak Spanish for 15 minutes. Kidrock humiliated himself and he, I guess, didn't have enough because he came out and defended the lip-sync on Fox and then he I don't know. He literally posted this insane video where he is doing mental gymnastics trying to show how it wasn't lip singing. When we can just see with our own eyes is lip singing. But first, let's just review this incredible moment once more, shall we? Where Kid Rock shows why he's one of the best.

As you can see there, I mean, that's really the, I mean, this is just incredible. It's just an incredible screen pause there. But as you can see, the lyrics are going, but the mouth is not moving. the mic is away from his mouth. You get the idea. Okay, so Kid Rock was on Fox News. Someone said he looks like 1987 Don Maddingly playing EZE. I don't know what that means, but it sounds funny.

He was on Fox News with Laura Ingram trying to defend this. And here's what he said. And interestingly, he pointed something out that I think Turning Point USA wouldn't have liked. I wrote a book called Shut Up and Sing about 20 years ago. It was pretty prescient. I just love music. This is one place I don't really need politics. Okay. Side note, one afternoon, I was at DCA, which is one of the airports in the DC area,

and she was there waiting for her Uber or whatever, someone to pick her up. And it took every bone in my body to not go up and yell at her. And I didn't, I think that's probably for the best. She's very small, tiny woman, tiny evil woman. I just love, I love great music. So Bobby, there's a lot of questions about what happened during your first, song on stage. People were talking about it. It seemed to be a little bit out of whack. What was going on there?

Yeah, so it was out of sync. And actually, it was out of sync. The lip sync was out of sync. No shit. It's fun with the haters. I can't answer all the trolls, but it's going to be some fun.

My DJ, who actually wraps that song with me. He was not lit up. He's coming to Nashville tonight flying in. We're going to do that live in my living room, and I'm going to post it tomorrow to show people exactly how this works. Because number one, if it would have been a lip-sinking, like people are trying to, you know,

the left is trying to throw me under the bus again and the mainstream media and social media tries to amplify it. God, I wish I was on the right. I'd be like, I would just always be like, the left is just trying to cancel me. And of course, you know, left-wing media doing what they can to try to make sure

that I look as bad as possible. We just saw the video. Maga wishes that video didn't exist. We saw the video. Make up, I mean, you can make up your own. mind, there's kind of no excusing it. The sound was going and his mouth was not moving during the chorus. It's, I mean, it doesn't get more simple than that. It would have been super easy to sink it up if it was pre-recorded. It was very difficult for the turning point production crew,

who by the way, I can't say enough good things about, but this was very difficult for him. I'm jumping around the stage like a rabid monkey rapping my song and I'm taking breaths and my DJs filling in the other parts of it. And it was very, I even told him when I saw the rough cut, I was like, you guys got to work on that sink. The rough. cut, by the way. So he points out that it wasn't live, but this whole thing wasn't live. So it was just a sinking issue that they had. And I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult, but it was a sinking issue. There was a sinking issue with the lip sync. Okay. All right. Well, he answered our prayers and he met up with his DJ to show how what we saw

we actually didn't see. What's up, people? We're here to address. the fake news media and all the trolls that are piling on trying to say I was lip syncing on the turning point USA halftime to ball with the ball. First, I got to say thank you to my DJ paradigm. We call him Freddie, who flew down from Detroit this evening, this Monday night, flew down from Detroit this evening. Wait. He made his poor DJ fly down from Detroit to make the video to prove the lip sync didn't happen.

The DJ does not look very thrilled about this to be completely honest. I'm sorry you want that. He's like, brother, you were lip-syncing. He's like, what are we doing? They ask you how you are, you just have to say that you're fine. You flew down from Detroit this evening, this Monday night, flew down from Detroit this evening just so we can make this video for you. And we get to hang out, I drink up here.

So it's all good. So the turning point of that, with the ball. You know that song's chaos. And the first thing is if I was ever going to lip sync, which I wouldn't, that would be the last song I would ever have to bring in the fold to do it to. We've performed this song every night on tour since 1998, since the day it was released. So the tourty point event, so they sent me a first cut. You know, we taped it, and then they sent me a first cut. And my comment was, the sink is off. They were trying to line up. First off, if we would have done it, if we would have recorded it, and then played like we were singing it, lip synced it, it would have been pie. It would have been pie to line up. It was very difficult for them because somebody clearly wasn't super familiar with the song. Also, when I ask him, I go, you know, Freddie wraps that song with me, my DJ, and they're like, he does what? And I'm like, oh, no. I'm like, yeah, do we have any cutaways of Freddie? And they, no, they didn't. No. He wasn't, we lit up? No. He didn't even.

No, I was going to do. Any TV time? No. Sorry, don't. You can see my silhouette. So they don't have that footage. Now it's extremely difficult for them to lie. I, uh, how much long is this?

Oh my God. The point. Where's the point? Where's the point? So, so far, it's not lip syncing because he wasn't lit up. I don't have been done if we had more time. I'm confident they could have got it right. I only got to see.

one edit. I didn't think it was the end of the world. I saw what was doing. The mics coming down and the sink was off. Because when we're rapping it, that song takes so much energy. You've seen me, people see me, doing. I'm flipping mics. I'm jumping around like a, like a rabid monkey on stage, still trying to at 55 years old. And so me and Freddie are like this. I'm like, and this is full of the questions that don't have any answers. The midnight glances and the topless dancers. The gang to freaks. The cars pack with speakers. The Gs with the 40s and the chicks with beepers. The northern lights. And the. Southern comfort and it don't even matter if your veins and puncture all the crackheads

The critics the cynics all my heroes in the methadone clinics all you bastards in the IRS It's for the crooked cops and the cluttered deaths it's for the shots and I just want to go back to this It just sounds like him it sounds like the track I'm not buying this and the caps of math the half pints of love and the fist is dress It's for my hookers all tricking out in Hollywood it's for my hoods of the world miss I said, it's all good. Yeah, and it's all in fun. Now get in the pet and try to love so warm. Boom.

So he's filling those words for me so I can, boom, bang my head, keep going and carrying on. Now when I'm doing that, you see me, I'm all over the stage. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I think you were a liar. Take the L. You clearly are lip-sinking on a very important night for yourself.

And this guy doesn't even buy it. You flew down your poor DJ to lie for you. Oh, I'm so, this embarrassing. Anyways, I wish they took, I don't know, the Epstein files as seriously as they're taking this or many other awful thing happening in our country or world. But I'm just going to say, but I don't know.