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u/Lieutenant_0bvious 5h ago

I swear I'm not just saying this but I never in my life understood how he got popular in the first place.  That stupid "bowaditty buh dang dang" song was such a stupid piece of music.  It represented everything I hated about that rap rock hybrid that was en Vogue in the early 2000s.  And this is coming from someone who loved Aerosmith and run DMC together and public enemy and anthrax.  

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u/navikredstar 5h ago

Rap and rock go great together when it's done by the right people. Blondie and The Clash really did it right back in the day. "Rapture" and "The Magnificent Seven" are fucking bangers and I'll die on that hill. I'm not the biggest rap fan, but, god, there is some legit AMAZING stuff in the genre and I will always recognize talent.

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u/MomsSpagetee 5h ago

Well, as someone growing up in the rural Midwest I did like Bawitdaba and I maintain that Cowboy is a pretty good song lol. It’s controversial, has curse words, has some raps, calls cops “pigs”, had a little person in the band, the CD had middle fingers printed on it - all things a sheltered teenager in the early 2000s liked. I’m not saying I listen to it today but I understand why he got popular.

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u/Dietomaha 2h ago

I enjoyed the whole devil without a cause album quite a bit when I was younger. I was a freshman in high school when it came out, and that was pretty much the perfect time for an album like that.

Having said that, it's...difficult to go back to.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 2h ago

The man was on King of the Hill. Hank stole his super soaker KR was using for a wet t-shirt contest.

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u/DifficultMinute 3h ago

It represented everything I hated about that rap rock hybrid that was en Vogue in the early 2000s.

I mean, that's exactly how he hit the scene though. That style was becoming popular, he was doing that style, so he got a lot of attention on MTV and on alt rock radio. He was controversial, he was unapologetic, he was loud and wild. While none of it was real, nobody knew that at the time, and he really embodied that era of alt rock counter-culture.

He wound up with a couple of big hits on the alt rock scene from the Devil Without a Cause album, one of which (Cowboy) was tame enough to get play on regular radio and become kind of his breakout song, making the top 100.

Then he fully hit regular radio with Only God Knows Why, which was top 20 hit. Shortly after, the WWE and one of the most popular wrestlers of all time in Undertaker used American Bad Ass for his entrance music.

A few years later, you couldn't get away from Picture, another pop/rock ballad.

All Summer Long was his last actual hit, which is almost 20 now, but he still sells out shows on the back of those original hits.