Kid Rock had one of the most viral moments of 2023 when he took a machine gun to several cases of Bud Light. The Michigan-based rocker/rapper posted the video in response to Anheuser-Busch’s partnership with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney for a promotional campaign.
Since then, Rock has backtracked somewhat on what many assumed was the rocker calling for a boycott of Bud Light. Rock appeared last week on The Joe Rogan Podcast and revealed that he actually received 100 cases of Bud Light for his birthday from the Anheuser-Busch company. He also ended up making friends with the company’s CEO Brendan Ball Whitworth. “I met that dude, the CEO. We’ve become friends,” Rock told Rogan of Whitworth.
“He’s a great guy,” Rock said. Donald Trump actually encouraged Rock to talk to him at a UFC fight. “So we go over and talk and actually have a great conversation. And at some point he was telling me how he got the video, and he was actually somewhere down in Texas doing some hunting. And we talk and talk and I’m not going to share all the conversation as that would probably be inappropriate, but I’m like, ‘Dude, you seem like someone I’d f*cking be friends with and want to hang out with.’ And he’s like, ‘I would, that’s what I’m saying.’ So I’m like, ‘Come to Nashville. Come visit me.’ He f*cking did.”
Rock continued: “He came with his top team. We broke bread. Got f*cked up on Bud Light and f*cking bowled and all this fun sh*t.”
Rock also found humor in the gesture of 100 cases of Bud Light. “It’s f*cking hilarious,” he said. “Cause my friends have been bringing it over, shoving it in my golf bag ever since I did what we call Machine Gun Gate. They’re f*cking with me at everything I go to. Someone is always doing, ‘Bud Light this, Bud Light that.’ You want to see f*cking confused people? We get done playing pickelball or something, and I’m like, ‘Hey, you guys take a couple of cases of Bud Light if you want.’ And they take them in this room and they’re f*cking stacked and they’re like, ‘What the f*ck, dude?’ And I’m like, ‘It’s a long f*cking story, man.'”
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