“Then again, I see where the industry is just so suicidal.”
While Kanye West certainly ticked off plenty of classic rockers with his recent actions at the Grammy Awards, Ted Nugent tells Ultimate Classic Rock that it didn’t raise his blood pressure. Calling West “super-talented,” he also admits that he doesn’t pay a lot of attention to the music that Kanye and his contemporaries are making.
“You know, I don’t get much of that anymore. I don’t understand. … I mean, I understand beauty and I understand fashion and trends,” he says. “You should Google my son Rocco, he goes by ‘Rocco Moon.’ He’s deep into the hip hop/rock stuff and I just don’t get it. I try to watch Eminem and all of these other guys and I don’t get it. It doesn’t light my fire like ‘Long Tall Sally’ or ‘I Feel Good’ or ‘19th Nervous Breakdown’ or ‘Tush,’ you know?,” Nugent says with a laugh.
“I kind of shrug my shoulders and I’m sorry to say, I just don’t get it,” Nugent explains. “I understand he’s a super-talented guy. Nobody likes naked girls more than I do, but would you really want to have your wife completely naked in a magazine? It’s a different world to me.
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