Jelly Roll’s Take on the Feud
Jelly Roll has reflected on the ongoing feud between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, saying he believes he can put an end to it.
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The Nashville rapper and singer-songwriter opened up about his friendships with each artist during a recent interview with The Flagrant podcast and revealed that he wants to be the one to see them put their differences aside.
“Eventually they will get together one day,” he said, adding that he hopes to “get them together.”
He also said that, being friends with each of them, he sees “a lot more of them in each other than they think.”
“I haven't told Marshall (Mathers, Eminem's real name) about this yet because I'm still glad I'm still in this circle and can have these conversations,” Jelly Roll said. host, adding that he pitched the idea to MGK.
“I also gave him some perspective,” he recalls. “We all grew up watching Eminem take over the game early on. If you were mentioned in an Eminem song, it was like being mentioned in a comedy special. You're fucking burning. You couldn't be hotter.
“I think they'll find each other's heart more than not,” Jelly Roll concluded during the interview. “If they never unite in this way, (the feud) will do more for both of them than it harms either of them.”
The Origins of the Feud
As emphasized Billboard, the Detroit rapper and rapper-turned-rock artist have been feuding since 2012. This first happened when Machine Gun Kelly, who was 22 at the time, took to Twitter to reference the then-“Without Me” rapper -16-year-old daughter is “hot as hell.”
Six years later, Eminem mentioned Kelly in his track “Not Alike”, which contained the lines: “I'm talking to you but you already know who the hell you are Kelly / I don't use the sublime and damn don't diss / But keep commenting on my daughter Haley“
Kelly responded with tracks like 2018's “Rap Devil,” a riff on Eminem's “Rap God.”
“Tough talk from a rapper who pays millions a year for security / 'I think my dad is crazy', yeah Hailey, you're right / Dad's always mad, locked in the studio screaming into the microphone“, MGK read in the track. “Man, you sound like a bitch / Man up and deal with your shit / Crazy about what I said in 2012 / It took you six years and a surprise album to release a diss“
Recent Developments
The latest jabs at MGK came both in 2020, when Em mentioned him in his track “Unaccommodating,” and in his latest album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),” which contained the track “Bad One.”
In the latter, the rap icon references his beef with the lines: “I need to keep attacking Tyson vs. Kelly / I've already body-boxed him twice / This little bastard is throwing subs like a deli food fight.“
“The Death of Slim Shady” received a three-star review from the magazine NME, which read: “Much more powerful is “Temporary,” a truly touching ode to his daughter Hayley that proves Marshall Mathers can say something important when he wants to.
“So, who killed Slim Shady? By bringing him back into the light and casting him as irrelevant, Eminem may have ended his old pal for good. Okay, we get it – Shady was a shocking character. Now that he's dead, how about we get some new material?”
In other Eminem news, the rapper recently shared his admiration for Kendrick Lamar and said he believes the rapper will come clean at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
As for MGK and Jelly Roll, the former recently opened up about how his 15-year-old daughter helped him get sober, while the latter talked about his meeting with Donald Trump and how he responded to rumors of Satanism.
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