STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Kid Rock is snapping at reports and social media comments that accused the musician of lip syncing during the Turning Point USA’s All-American Halftime Show.
Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, took to X Tuesday to dismiss “the haters and fake news.”
He confirmed his performance “was pre-recorded but performed live.”
“When they synced the cameras to my performance on Bawitdaba, it did not line up as I explain in this video,” Rock wrote in his tweet.
The video, nearly five minutes long and featuring Rock’s rapping, garnered 6.2 million views at the time of publishing.
“When we’re rapping it, that song takes so much energy,” Rock said. “He’s [Rock’s DJ, Paradime] filling in those words for me so I can [catch my breath], bang my head, keep going and carrying on.”
The TPUSA show was put on in protest of Bad Bunny being selected as the Super Bowl Halftime Show artist.
The show pulled in a meager 6.1 million viewers.
According to ESPN, Bad Bunny’s performance rocketed into the record books for the fourth-most watched Super Bowl Halftime Show in history, with 128.2 million viewers tuning in.