Kid Rock Gets Served

Kid Rock was sued for $575,000 in damages on Monday by the Nashville strip club DJ he struck in a late-night brawl in February. That same day, the rap-rock star pleaded no contest to criminal assault and was given a suspended sentence of a year in jail and ordered to attend anger management classes.

Rock will also have to pony up $180 to replace the DJ's eyeglasses, broken when the thirty-four-year-old rocker hit him in the face.

In Nashville for a memorial service in honor of songwriter/promoter Merle Kilgore (Hank Williams Jr. and Sr.), who died on February 6th of lung cancer, Rock found himself at adult entertainment venue Christie's Cabaret late that night. According to police, at about 3 a.m. Rock became convinced that the DJ, Jerry Campos, had disrespected his friend, and demanded an apology. When Campos refused, Rock struck him.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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