“Bawitdaba” by Kid Rock

"Bawitdaba" is the song that kicks the door in on Devil Without a Cause, Kid Rock's fourth album, from 1998, and when it went out as a single the following year it hauled the whole record along behind it. Kid Rock wrote it with Jason Krause and Uncle Kracker, produced it himself with John Travis adding extra production, and mixed it alongside David Bottrill for Atlantic.

The track runs on pure barking, hype-man energy: rap-metal riffs crunching like a demolition derby, a shouted vocal riding a band that hits like a bar fight. It's loud, dumb in the smartest possible way, and built to make an arena full of strangers yell the same syllables at once.

It cracked the top 10 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and in New Zealand, drew real praise from critics, and has stuck as one of the songs people reach for first when they hear his name.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.