Editing Devil Without a Cause (section)

==Recording==
In 1997, Jason Flom, head of [[Lava Records]], attended one of Kid Rock's performances, and met with Kid Rock, who later gave him a demo containing the songs "Somebody's Gotta Feel This" and "I Got One for Ya", which led to Kid Rock signing with Atlantic Records.<ref name=freepearly/><ref name="Lava Record Deal">{{cite web|title=Interview Andy Karp Vice President of A&R at Lava/Atlantic in New York |publisher=AtlanticRecordsContact.com |url=http://www.atlanticrecordscontact.com/ |access-date=July 22, 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705133859/http://www.atlanticrecordscontact.com/ |archive-date=July 5, 2008 }}</ref> As part of his recording deal, Kid Rock received $150,000 from the label.<ref name=cowboysindians>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowboysindians.com/2015/07/kid-rock/|title=Kid Rock - C&I Magazine|date=July 1, 2015}}</ref> By this time, Kid Rock had fully developed his [[pimp]] [[redneck]] stage persona and [[rap rock]] musical style and wanted to make a "redneck, shit-kicking [[rock and roll|rock 'n' roll]] rap" album.<ref name=freepearly>{{cite web|url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2015/08/26/kid-rock-early-years-detroit/31193049/|title=Kid Rock before the fame: The definitive Detroit oral history}}</ref>

The album was recorded at the White Room in Detroit and mixed at the Mix Room in Los Angeles.<ref name=freepearly/> Kid Rock spent two months in the studio with "a hot tub, some girls and some illegal substances".<ref name=MTV>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/500525/kid-rock-raps-with-the-devil/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127202414/http://www.mtv.com/news/500525/kid-rock-raps-with-the-devil/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2018|title=Kid Rock Raps With The Devil|website=[[MTV]]}}</ref> In addition to the newly written songs, the band also re-recorded some of Kid Rock's older songs, including "[[I Am the Bullgod]]" from the album ''[[The Polyfuze Method]]'',<ref name=MTV/> and "Black Chick, White Guy" from the album ''[[Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp]]''.<ref name=freepearly/><ref name=heartbreak>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kid-rocks-cure-for-heartbreak-20071018|title=Kid Rock's Cure for Heartbreak|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first1=Austin|last1=Scaggs|date=October 18, 2007|access-date=February 2, 2018}}</ref>

During the recording sessions, [[Eminem]] was mixing ''[[The Slim Shady LP]]'' at the same studio, and, being friends with Kid Rock, asked him to record [[scratching]] for the song "Just Don't Give A Fuck." In return, Eminem delivered a guest [[rapping|rap]] verse on Kid's song "Fuck Off." In a 1999 interview with Spin Magazine, Eminem told the interviewer that he used cocaine for the first and last time ever while writing and recording his verse with Kid. According to Eminem, Kid was in "full party mode with tons of different drugs just laid out near the studio mixing board. There were ''[[Playboy]]'' playmates just passed out naked with coke on their nose. It was overwhelming. I never touched that shit again."<ref name=freepearly/>