Corey Taylor revisits beef with “weird substitute teacher” Machine Gun Kelly
nme.comSlipknot‘s Corey Taylor has revisited his recent beef with Machine Gun Kelly during a Q&A appearance at this year’s ShipRocked.The fallout between the pair began last September after MGK hit out at the metal legends at Chicago’s Riot Fest, saying onstage: “You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing?
Being 50 years old wearing a fucking weird mask on a fucking stage, talking shit.”His onstage diss came after Taylor appeared to dismissively allude to Kelly in an interview earlier this year: “I hate all new rock for the most part.
I [hate] the artists who failed in one genre and decided to go rock and I think he knows who he is.”After MGK’s comments went viral, he took to social media, tweeting: “Very odd that when an artist talks shit, and I respond, I’m the bad guy.”He followed it up by saying his issues with Taylor dated back to when he was working on his 2020 album ‘Tickets To My Downfall’.“Corey did a verse for a song on tickets to my downfall album, it was fucking terrible, so i didn’t use it,” he wrote on Twitter.“He got mad about it, and talked shit to a magazine about the same album he was almost on.
yalls stories are all off. just admit he’s bitter,” he added, seemingly referring to Taylor’s comments about “failed” artists crossing genres.Taylor then responded to Kelly’s claims by sharing screenshots of a purported email exchange with Blink-182‘s Travis Barker, who had executive produced ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ and appeared to be communicating with Taylor on Kelly’s behalf.Sharing the screenshots of the emails on Twitter, Taylor wrote, “I don’t like people airing private shit like a child.
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