Machine Gun Kelly revisits Eminem beef: “He did not win”
Machine Gun Kelly’s back at it, reigniting the flames of his old feud with Eminem.
MGK has stirred the pot once again, this time in a comment on YouTuber Scru Face Jean’s review of his latest track “BMXXing”. In the comment, MGK challenges the notion that Eminem was the clear victor in their past feud, sparking a fresh wave of controversy.
Scru Face Jean reviewed “BMXXing”, comparing the vibes to Mac Miller’s work. He acknowledged the Eminem beef, stating, “MGK really stood up and fought. There is a lot of people who were afraid to say something about Em, so I gotta respect him for that”. Scru ultimately crowned Eminem the winner, but acknowledged MGK put up a good fight.
MGK clearly isn’t on the same page. He responded to Scru’s clip, stating, “He didn’t win.” This fired up fans on both sides, with some backing MGK and others calling him delusional.
It seems like after his successful genre switch, MGK gained more confidence since he’s back to rapping and is ready to revisit history. He blamed his beef with Eminem and Em’s devastating “Killshot” diss for MGK’s low album sales and the reputation loss that ultimately pushed him out of the hip hop world. And here we are again.
The difference is that Eminem is not going to sit and read what people on the Internet talk about him. He is too busy rolling out his new album, “The Death of Slim Shady”. The one that just spawned a lead single that has crushed the charts in around 20 countries and sold more in its first week than all other songs in the Top 5.
It’s been six years since Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly traded shots at each other, and Kelly released the “Rap Devil” diss track. The track was in response to Detroit rapper dissing Kelly on the song “Not Alike”, which appeared on his surprise tenth studio project “Kamikaze“. The Detroit rapper took shots at Kelly for his comments about his daughter Hailie Jade in 2012, at the time when she was only 16 years old.
Following ‘Rap Devil,’ Eminem released another MGK diss track titled “Killshot“. The song is reportedly the reason behind the end of Kelly’s rap career, as he switched his genre from hip-hop to pop-funk.
“Yes. [The 2019 album] Hotel Diablo is that for me because that was the first time I really expressed my true self with no outside influence, meaning the label,” said MGK in an interview with Dave Franco. “As a hip-hop album, it’s flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album. But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day. It’s like if you make a shi–y movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think. That’s why the project was ironically my best-received one because it was the most effortless, with the least outside influence.”
