Kid Rock uses "being from" Detroit as means to concoct authenticity. His boosting does more to harm than help the city by just perpetuating stereotypes. It's a lot easier to say "I'm from Detroit. I'm hard. I'm a badass" than "I'm from Detroit, and I'm raising a family here" but where's the glamour in that? I don't know how much boosting the city gets from having some redneck run around continuously getting arrested for assault, but if he really wanted to be a part of Detroit, he'd build his house here, not on Lake Charlevoix.