Kid Rock has denied lip-syncing during his performance of “Bawitdaba” at Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show.” Instead, he said he was “out of sync” with his DJ and that, because he was “jumping around the stage like a rabid monkey,” it was “very difficult” for the Turning Point USA production team to correct the performance in post-production.
The singer offered his explanation during an appearance on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle on Monday night. In doing so, he all but confirmed that the performance was pre-taped, as he revealed that he saw a “rough cut” of the performance before it aired.
“My DJ, who actually raps that song with me, was not lit up,” Kid Rock told Laura Ingraham. “I’m jumping around the stage like a rabid monkey, rapping my song, and I’m taking breaths, and my DJ is filling in the other parts of it — I even told them when I saw the rough cut, I was like, You guys got to work on that sync. It’s off. So it was just a syncing issue that they had, and I know they tried to get it right. It was very difficult.”
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In response to the criticism, Kid Rock said his DJ is flying to Nashville and they’re going to re-do his performance of “Bawitdaba” “in my living room and I’m gonna post it tomorrow to show people exactly how this works.”
He added, “I’ll answer all the haters tomorrow and we’ll put them back in the — and shut up and go back to trying to report the fake news.”
Kid Rock: If it would have been lip syncing… it would have been super easy to sync it up if it was prerecorded pic.twitter.com/LyWnGFJVHe
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