KID ROCK CONFESSES: `DRUG DEALERS FINANCED MY FIRST RECORD'

KID ROCK CONFESSES: `DRUG DEALERS FINANCED MY FIRST RECORD'

DETROIT, Mich. (Wireless Flash) -- It Looks like some good things CAN come from drugs after all. That's according to rocking rapper Kid Rock, who tells the latest "Rolling Stone" he owes his career to drug dealers who financed his first record. Rock claims that back in 1990, he convinced some of Detroit's biggest drug pushers to finance his album. In exchange, he agreed to work their names into his lyrics. Although the CD flopped and Kid ended up a has-been at the age of 20, it gave him a start in the music business that led to his success today.