Did Detroit singer Kid Rock call rapper Bad Bunny "a man in a dress" and criticize the NFL's selection of the Puerto Rican rapper for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show? No, that's not true: There's no public record of such a remark by Kid Rock. There is no mention of the 2026 halftime show on Rock's social media accounts nor in media coverage of the conservative music star. The story appears on the Facebook page of one of a number of companies using the Bad Bunny selection to stir fake outrage and generate web traffic.
The claim appeared in an October 4, 2025 Facebook post (archived here) on the DavidJHarrisJr account under the title "DAYUM!". It continued:
Kid Rock didn't hold back, declaring: "You bring a man in a dress to the Super Bowl? Then don't call it football, call it a circus."To him, the Super Bowl stage isn't just another performance -- it's the moment the whole world is watching, a symbol of strength and American spirit. That's why he fiercely opposed the idea of Bad Bunny, a man with an eccentric dress-wearing style, headlining the show.He made his stance clear: "I'll walk away as an NFL fan if they let Bad Bunny take that stage. This isn't just a bad choice -- it's an insult to American music."
This is what Harris' post looked like on Facebook at the time this fact check was written:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/DavidJHarrisJr.)
The page transparency reports for pages like Kollam Media publishing fake stories on Facebook (examples here and here) show page managers from Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Philippines. This alone does not mean a story is fake. But, in the weeks leading up to this report, Lead Stories had debunked many other fake controversy stories originating from Facebook pages managed overseas and linking to low quality fly-by-night websites which could be characterized as "made-for-advertising" or MFA sites.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of transparency report at www.facebook.com/kollammedia1.)
Lead Stories searched Kid Rock's Facebook account manually, finding only one post after September 28, 2025, the day the NFL announced (archived here) it had selected Bad Bunny to be Super Bowl halftime performer.
At the time this was written, his YouTube account showed no posts since May 23, 2025:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of home page of www.youtube.com/@kidrock/videos.)
The posts on his X account after the Bad Bunny announcement addressed a ticket scalper controversy, his Detroit steakhouse, Michigan politics and support for Vice President JD Vance, but not the NFL.
Lead Stories used key word searches to look for news media coverage of Kid Rock comments about Bad Bunny and found none on the Google News index of thousands of news sites (archived here). The Yahoo News index of its publishing partners and news services turned up multiple copies of the claim on a variety of engagement-farming fake news pages.
But, the search found no reporting by legitimate newsrooms (archived here) on such a Kid Rock comment.
