Why Kid Rock Needs to Become Man Rock

and Also Partner With Project Babbage to Deploy TicketBastard

Introduction

Let’s get one thing straight: Kid Rock is currently wasting his time in a geriatric waiting room on Capitol Hill, hoping a bunch of eighty year olds in suits will save his business. On January 28, 2026, the man we call Kid Rock stood before those suits and told them the truth: the music business is a cartel and the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger is a monopoly dressed up like a good idea. He stood there as a lone wolf and a capitalist, beholden to no managers or corporate masters, but even a lone wolf gets sick of being bled dry by deer ticks. The live event industry is a rigged rodeo, where gatekeepers take a massive cut of the gate while the fans get fleeced and the artists take the blame.

The current setup is an insult to every red-blooded American who ever crushed their balls pulling two solid weeks of double shifts at the ball-crushing factory; just to buy a concert ticket. We are talking about deceptive bait-and-switch pricing where fees can hike a ticket cost by 44 percent, hidden until the very last second of a checkout process. These corporate douche-nozzles admitted in their own internal emails that they turn a blind eye to bots because they make a killing off the secondary market markup. It is time to stop playing the victim and start acting like a man. It is time for Kid Rock to become Man Rock.

Graduation to Man Rock: Owning the Ranch

The name Kid Rock served its purpose for a quarter-century of packing arenas, but a “Kid” is still someone who has to play by the teacher’s rules. A “Man” owns the ranch, fixes his own truck, and stands his ground ready to protect his property by means necessary. By rebranding as Man Rock, Bob Ritchie signals that the era of asking for permission from a centralized conglomerate is over. This is a move from dependence to total technical agency.

Real independence is more than slogan on a truck stop t-shirt: it is the Second Amendment for your digital life. If Man Rock wants to keep his promise of $20 tickets and $4 beers, he cannot do it while a group of rent-seeking vampires are siphoning off the value. He needs an arsenal that enforces his will at the protocol level. He needs to stop begging the swamp to fix a broken system and start using the tools that render the gatekeepers irrelevant.

TicketBastard: The Constitutional Carry for Your Career

We didn’t build a better app for the cartel: we built a weapon to dismantle it. TicketBastard is our unreleased event ticketing application built on Metanet tools. It is designed to return absolute, granular control to the artist and the venue because the middleman is cut out like a piece of dead weight. Unlike the corporate data-mines that sell your fans’ personal info to “partners,” TicketBastard operates on a horizontal identity layer where the user is the only boss of their own data.

It uses the cold, hard logic of accountability; your device handles the keys and verifies the transactions. You are no longer a digital serf begging a globalist entity for access to your own fans.

By deploying TicketBastard, Man Rock can ensure that every cent of his hard-earned value flows directly from the fan to the stage, without some suit in a high-rise taking a cut for doing nothing.

Call to Action: Rally the Troops For Man Rock

To every God-fearing, flag-waving, ball-crushing American Kid Rock fan out there: the time for complaining is over! Bob Ritchie is out there on the front lines taking hits from the cartel, but he’s fighting with a dull knife right now. We need to get this message to him. We need to tell him that he doesn’t have to wait for a Senate committee to decide if he is allowed to own his own career.

Share this. Tag him. Drive up to the peak of you local landfill and shout it from the roof of your Ford F-750 Diesel. Tell Bob it is time to graduate. Tell him to drop the Kid and pick up the keys to the Metanet. We have the tools to protect the American fan from being fleeced, but we need a leader who isn’t afraid to jam a pipe wrench into the spinning cogs of the machine. If you love this country and you love live music, help us get TicketBastard into the hands of Man Rock. It is time to stop playing the game and start owning the board. Welcome to the Metanet. Web3 forever, motherfuckers!