Kid Rock Claims “Bawitdaba” Is “The Last Song” He Would Ever Want To Try Lip-Syncing
The biggest night in football, the Super Bowl, is also one of the biggest nights in entertainment, as the Halftime Show is sometimes spoken of more than the game itself.
This year, the Super Bowl had a divisive selection for its Halftime Show performer, the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny.
A couple weeks after Bad Bunny was announced as the Halftime Show performer, the conservative organization Turning Point USA, which was founded by the late Charlie Kirk, announced it would be going head-to-head against the NFL with its own halftime event, dubbed the “All-American Halftime Show.”
Months went by with speculation as to who would be performing, until TPUSA revealed the week before the event that Kid Rock would be headlining its Super Bowl counter-programming effort.
His performance was energetic, and had a lot of pyrotechnic effects, but it also attracted scrutiny, as many viewers felt he was lip-syncing his performance of his opening song, “Bawitdaba.”
Now, Kid Rock has released a video of him performing the song at his house in an effort to dispel these accusations…
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Kid Rock Has “Some Fun With The Haters” As He Defends His Performance
Speaking on the The Ingraham Angle on Fox News on Monday, Feb. 9, Kid Rock announced that he would be filming himself performing “Bawitdaba” live from his living room to “have some fun with the haters.”
“My DJ, who actually raps that song with me — he was not lit up — he’s coming to Nashville tonight, flying in,” Kid Rock said. “We’re gonna do that live in my living room, and I’m gonna post it and show people exactly how this works.”
Continuing, Kid Rock chalked the source of the lip-syncing controversy up to a “syncing issue” on Turning Point USA’s end.
🚨 JUST IN: Kid Rock announces he's about to drop a LIVING ROOM PERFORMANCE to silence the haters who claimed he lip-synced his halftime music 🔥
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 10, 2026
"My DJ is coming tonight! We're gonna do it LIVE."
"It would've been EASY to sync it up if it were pre-recorded."
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Writing in the caption of his Feb. 10 video from his living room, Kid Rock explained, “My halftime performance was pre recorded but performed live. No lipsycing like the haters and fake news are trying to report. When they synced the cameras to my performance on ‘Bawitdaba,’ it did not line up as I explain in this video.”
“Bawitdaba” is one of Kid Rock’s biggest hits, coming from his 1998 album Devil Without a Cause.
In Kid Rock’s video from his living room, he is joined by his regular DJ, Paradime, and Kid Rock stated, “[‘Bawitdaba’], you know, that song is chaos, and the first thing is, if I was ever going to lip-sync, that would be the last song … We’ve performed this song every night on tour since 1998, when it was released.”
Expounding upon the situation, Kid Rock noted that Paradime did not feature in the video of the TPUSA performance once, and the TPUSA crew did not shoot coverage of the performance with a focus on Paradime. This led to gaps in the performance, making it seem like Kid Rock’s singing track was continuing without him throughout his performance, which he likened to the energy of a “rabid monkey.”
About two minutes into his video, Kid Rock and Paradime demonstrate a few things:
- Kid Rock and Paradime have very similar voices;
- Kid Rock and Paradime routinely alternate on select phrases within “Bawitdaba;” and
- Kid Rock knows the words to his song.
Watch Kid Rock’s video from his living room, and decide for yourself on this controversy from his Turning Point USA performance, here:
Compare his living room performance to his TPUSA “All-American Halftime Show” performance of “Bawitdaba,” here:
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