Released November 20, 2001 Length 63:36 Release date 20 November 2001 | Recorded 1999–2001 | |
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Nominations American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Album Similar Kid Rock albums, Country music albums | ||
Cocky is Kid Rock's fifth album released with Atlantic Records, his fifth studio album overall, released in 2001. The album is Kid Rock's first to feature material in the genres of country and blues. The album is known for featuring the ballad "Picture", recorded as a duet with Sheryl Crow. In May 2011, the album was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA and has sold 5,344,000 copies in the US as of December 2013.
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According to his official website that made a timeline for his 45th birthday in January 2016, Cocky was certified 6 X platinum on August 26,2008. A picture of a plaque of a star with picture of he and band members over the 6 disc are shown. However RIAA only certified the album at 5 X platinum.
The album was dedicated to Joe C., who died the year before. 75 songs written for the album, but only 30 of them were recorded as a song for the album. One of the recorded songs that did not make the album was "If I Was President", a standard blues song that Rock plays frequently in concert. Another song left off the album was "In Your Lifetime", which was a eulogy to Joe C. "Picture" received a CMA nomination in 2003 for Vocal Event of the Year and would go on to be Rock's first gold single.
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Release and Promotion
The album's first single was the rap rock track "Forever". The song charted at number 18 on Mainstream Rock and number 21 on Modern Rock.He performed the song on TRL and The Late Show with David Letterman,leading to a number 8 debut ( would climb to number 3 after release of Picture). He and Hank Williams Jr.would perform on CMT Crossroads in late 2001. The second single was the ballad "Lonely Road of Faith", released in January 2002. The song was heavily promoted by WWE in the video tribute to the History of WWE. The song was also heard on WB's Smallville and MTV's Real World. Kid Rock would go on "The Cocky Tour" then join Aerosmith and Run DMC on the "Girls Of Summer Tour". The song would peak at number 15 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. In July 2002, a censored version of "You Never Met a Motherfucker Quite Like Me" was released to radio and peaked at number 32 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. Kid Rock would test out "Picture" at CMT's Farm Aid with Allison Moorer filling in for Sheryl Crow. When Sheryl Crow's label butted heads with Rock he released the song in November 2002 with Allison Moorer. As the Allison Moorer version began climbing the country charts, Sheryl Crow's people changed their minds. The Sheryl Crow version was released in January 2003. It would become Kid Rock's first crossover hit charting at number 4 on the Hot 100, number 5 on the Top 40, number 2 at AC and number 17 on country radio. The single would be certified gold and spend 52 weeks on top the Country Singles Sales chart; it also peaked at number 1 on the US Singles Sales charts and number 2 on the Canadian Singles Sales chart. The song would be Sheryl Crow's second most successful single after "All I Wanna Do". The album climbed all the way back to number three. The song would be his first gold single and push the album from 1.8 million sold to 4.7 million sold ( Cocky since has sold about 5.4 million). The song was nominated for CMA Vocal Event of The Year.
Track listing
A clean version is also available, removing most vulgarity, as well as the song "WCSR". The clean version of the disc also features a picture of Kid Rock's face on the disc, while the unedited version has an image of Rock's hands with raised middle fingers (a reference to Rock's previous album Devil Without a Cause which featured just Rock's right hand making the same gesture); both feature Kid Rock's name. The edited version of Cocky also renames track 8 "You Never Met a White Boy Quite Like Me".
Samples
- "Trucker Anthem" – "Beats to the Rhyme" by Run–D.M.C. and "March of the Winkies" from The Wizard of Oz 1987 musical version (both used turning long intro)
- "Forever" – "Trampled Under Foot" by Led Zeppelin (riff but heavied and slowed down) and "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles ( vocal sample)
- "Lay It on Me" – "Who Are You" by The Who (the breakdown in middle of the song)
- "Cocky" – "Tom Sawyer" by Rush (organ, drums on chorus) and "I Want You Back by Jackson 5 (funk riff ,slowed down)
- "What I Learned Out On The Road"- "What I Got" by Sublime (guitar on verses) and " Bad Penny Blues" by Humphrey Lyttleton ( piano and organ)
- "I'm Wrong, But You Ain't Right" – "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath (start of the duel guitar solos)
- "You Never Met a Motherfucker Quite Like Me" – "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (pays homage in mid-song) and "Bloody Well Right" by Supertramp(riff)
- "I'm a Dog" – "Born on the Bayou" by Creedence Clearwater Revival (sound effect), "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges ( organ) and " Thunderkiss 65" by White Zombie ( riff, made faster) and "Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple (guitar solo)
- "Baby Come Home" – "Brown-Baggin'" by 24-Carat Black (lead in guitar part)
- "Drunk in the Morning" – "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent (guitar riff before bass solo at end of song)
- "WCSR"- Bitch Betta Have My Money by AMG ( lyric,vocal sample) and Eazy Duz It by Easy E (lyric,vocal sample)
Demos
These have been discussed in interviews with Rolling Stones magazine and listed on his site at extreme kid rock.
Musicians
Songs
1Trucker Anthem4:40
2Forever3:46
3Lay It on Me4:56