Kid Rock admits to TPUSA halftime show being prerecorded
Every delay has consequences.
Kid Rock admitted that his performance for Turning Point USA’s rival Super Bowl halftime show was prerecorded, following speculations that he was lip-syncing.
TPUSA announced that it would put on an alternative show during Apple Music’s Super Bowl halftime show, as conservatives criticized the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny as the performer. Bad Bunny, whose legal name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has criticized the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We’re here to address the fake news media and all the trolls that are piling on, trying to say I was lip syncing on the Turning Point USA Bawitdaba,” Kid Rock said at the beginning of a video he posted on X.
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.
— KidRock (@KidRock) February 10, 2026
Kid Rock argued that he was not lip-syncing but that problems syncing the audio together made it appear that he was.
“Because we were rapping it. That song takes so much energy,” he said. “I know these guys had a difficult time syncing it together, so I have nothing but good things to say, not only about Turning Point, but also the production team they work with.”
“[Turning Point USA production] top notch, first class all the way. Nobody is perfect or gets it right every time,” he added.
TPUSA’s All-American Halftime show featuring Kid Rock drew in 6.1 million concurrent viewers on its YouTube channel on Sunday night.
Kid Rock said the song he performed, “Bawitdaba,” would be the “last song” he would ever lip-sync if he ever did.
“If I was ever going to lip sync, which I wouldn’t, that would be the last song that I would ever have to bring into the fold to do it to,” he said. “We’ve performed the song every night on tour since 1998, since the day it was released.”
He said Turning Point USA sent him a first cut of the live performance, and he flagged that the video’s sync was off. Kid Rock said it was “difficult” for TPUSA because the person editing the video “wasn’t familiar” with the song.
“First off, if we would’ve recorded it and played it like we lip-synced it, it would’ve been pie, it would’ve been pie lined up. It was very difficult for them because somebody wasn’t super familiar with the song,” he said.
He added that if TPUSA had more time, the audio problems could have been …
Every delay has consequences.
Kid Rock admitted that his performance for Turning Point USA’s rival Super Bowl halftime show was prerecorded, following speculations that he was lip-syncing.
TPUSA announced that it would put on an alternative show during Apple Music’s Super Bowl halftime show, as conservatives criticized the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny as the performer. Bad Bunny, whose legal name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has criticized the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We’re here to address the fake news media and all the trolls that are piling on, trying to say I was lip syncing on the Turning Point USA Bawitdaba,” Kid Rock said at the beginning of a video he posted on X.
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.
— KidRock (@KidRock) February 10, 2026
Kid Rock argued that he was not lip-syncing but that problems syncing the audio together made it appear that he was.
“Because we were rapping it. That song takes so much energy,” he said. “I know these guys had a difficult time syncing it together, so I have nothing but good things to say, not only about Turning Point, but also the production team they work with.”
“[Turning Point USA production] top notch, first class all the way. Nobody is perfect or gets it right every time,” he added.
TPUSA’s All-American Halftime show featuring Kid Rock drew in 6.1 million concurrent viewers on its YouTube channel on Sunday night.
Kid Rock said the song he performed, “Bawitdaba,” would be the “last song” he would ever lip-sync if he ever did.
“If I was ever going to lip sync, which I wouldn’t, that would be the last song that I would ever have to bring into the fold to do it to,” he said. “We’ve performed the song every night on tour since 1998, since the day it was released.”
He said Turning Point USA sent him a first cut of the live performance, and he flagged that the video’s sync was off. Kid Rock said it was “difficult” for TPUSA because the person editing the video “wasn’t familiar” with the song.
“First off, if we would’ve recorded it and played it like we lip-synced it, it would’ve been pie, it would’ve been pie lined up. It was very difficult for them because somebody wasn’t super familiar with the song,” he said.
He added that if TPUSA had more time, the audio problems could have been …
Kid Rock admits to TPUSA halftime show being prerecorded
Every delay has consequences.
Kid Rock admitted that his performance for Turning Point USA’s rival Super Bowl halftime show was prerecorded, following speculations that he was lip-syncing.
TPUSA announced that it would put on an alternative show during Apple Music’s Super Bowl halftime show, as conservatives criticized the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny as the performer. Bad Bunny, whose legal name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has criticized the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We’re here to address the fake news media and all the trolls that are piling on, trying to say I was lip syncing on the Turning Point USA Bawitdaba,” Kid Rock said at the beginning of a video he posted on X.
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.
— KidRock (@KidRock) February 10, 2026
Kid Rock argued that he was not lip-syncing but that problems syncing the audio together made it appear that he was.
“Because we were rapping it. That song takes so much energy,” he said. “I know these guys had a difficult time syncing it together, so I have nothing but good things to say, not only about Turning Point, but also the production team they work with.”
“[Turning Point USA production] top notch, first class all the way. Nobody is perfect or gets it right every time,” he added.
TPUSA’s All-American Halftime show featuring Kid Rock drew in 6.1 million concurrent viewers on its YouTube channel on Sunday night.
Kid Rock said the song he performed, “Bawitdaba,” would be the “last song” he would ever lip-sync if he ever did.
“If I was ever going to lip sync, which I wouldn’t, that would be the last song that I would ever have to bring into the fold to do it to,” he said. “We’ve performed the song every night on tour since 1998, since the day it was released.”
He said Turning Point USA sent him a first cut of the live performance, and he flagged that the video’s sync was off. Kid Rock said it was “difficult” for TPUSA because the person editing the video “wasn’t familiar” with the song.
“First off, if we would’ve recorded it and played it like we lip-synced it, it would’ve been pie, it would’ve been pie lined up. It was very difficult for them because somebody wasn’t super familiar with the song,” he said.
He added that if TPUSA had more time, the audio problems could have been …
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