He became interested in hip hop in the 1980s, joining a breakdance crew and teaching himself to rap and DJ.

From there he began performing at local parties as part of a rap group called The Beast Crew and met D-Nice, a member of KRS-One’s Boogie Down Productions.

Within minutes of the boy, who has not been named, entering his school, a dozen police arrived responding to calls of a potential shooter and Ashwaubenon High was placed on lockdown.

Police explained that a passerby had spotted the kid walking to school wearing the Darth Vader mask, and mistook his black, plastic costume for a 'ballistic-type vest' and called 911.

This led to an opening slot at a BDP concert, and D-Nice, who was signed to Jive Records, helped Kid Rock land a deal with the same label., was released in 1990.

Rolling Stone would later include it in a list of "20 terrible debut albums by great artists," criticizing it for being “so insistently generic it’s like he tossed everything current about hip hop in 1990 into a giant colander and sifted out all the individuality.” With production from Too Short and D-Nice, it achieved notoriety when an uncensored version of the album’s single "Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley" — a paean to oral sex — was played on a college radio station, leading to an FCC fine.

Trump supporters just got an early Christmas gift from Kid Rock, who has released a new line of apparel for the president-elect's biggest fans.

We'd be foolish not to,' he said.'We have to be careful, in this day and age we live in now.

Kid Rock was born Robert James Ritchie on January 17, 1971, in Romeo, Michigan, a small rural town north of the Detroit metro area.

His father was a car dealer who owned a six-acre orchard where the young Ritchie would work along with his three siblings.

One shirt simply reads 'Gods, Guns and Trump' while another features a picture of the president-elect with the seemingly misspelled name 'Onald Trump'.

Underneath it then reads: 'The D is missing because it's in every hater's mouth'.