Claim: Kid Rock is a musician.

Devil Without a Cause is the fourth studio album by Kid Rock , released on August 18 , 1998 . The album was produced by Kid Rock with John Travis . It is Kid Rock 's last album to be categorized as `` hip hop '' before crossing over to more traditional rock music . AllMusic labeled the album as a `` rap-rock masterpiece '' .   The album was certified 11 × Platinum by the RIAA by April 2003 . It is Kid Rock 's best-selling album , and as of 2015 it has sold 9,500,000 plus copies in the United States , according to Nielsen soundscan . -LRB- RIAA is units shipped , Soundscan is units scanned -RRB-   Initially , Atlantic Records was not sold on the idea of signing Kid Rock based on the strength of his material . Kid Rock then entered the studio and cut a two-song demo tape featuring `` Somebody 's Got ta Feel This '' , a punk rock song with a southern rock chorus and `` I Got One for Ya '' a blues song with Robert Bradley . Jason Flom immediately signed him and the band for $ 100,000 after hearing the tracks .   The song `` Bawitdaba '' which blended hard rock and hip hop helped increase the popularity of nu/rap metal along with the bands Limp Bizkit and Korn . This led to the success of new groups like Linkin Park , P.O.D. , Papa Roach and Saliva . `` Cowboy '' also aided in ushering in the then-new genre `` country rap '' or `` hick hop '' . The song has gone on to influence Toby Keith , Blake Shelton , Trace Adkins , Big & Rich , Uncle Kracker , Gretchen Wilson , Jason Aldean , Brantley Gilbert , Eric Church , Rehab , Moonshine Bandits and Colt Ford .   Originally `` Cowboy '' , `` Devil Without a Cause '' and `` Only God Knows Why '' were rejected by Atlantic Records . The label did not understand a rap song about a cowboy and wanted him to take the `` I 'm going platinum '' line out of the title track , because at that point , his albums had gone nowhere . `` Only God Knows Why '' was too country ; they wanted a pure rock album . Rock wrote the first four lines of the song in jail after being arrested for a bar fight he got into while celebrating being signed to Atlantic . The song `` Wasting Time '' documented his frustrations with the label after he developed writer 's block . Because of this he brought back four old tracks -- `` I Am the Bullgod '' from 1993 's Fire It Up EP ; `` Roving Gangster -LRB- Rollin -RRB- '' , a demo left off Early Mornin ' Stoned Pimp ; as well as `` Where U at Rock '' and `` Black Chick , White Guy '' off EMSP . The album got its first exposure on the video game Road Rash 3D ; it used `` Somebody 's Got ta Feel This '' .