Hello, and welcome to the celebrity feud you never knew you needed. No, I'm not talking about Nicki Minaj and Cardi B—I'm talking about the beef between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, who are approximately two diss tracks and one public brawl away from throwing Louboutins. So, why do Eminem and MGK hate each other so much? In the words of Hilary Duff:
May 7, 2012
Machine Gun Kelly, then 22, tweets that Eminem's then-16-year-old daughter Hailie is "hot as fuck." Which, to be clear, is super-duper gross:
October 19, 2015
MGK claims that he was banned from radio stations because of his tweet about Hailie. Here he is talking on Hot 97 FM about the affect that tweet had on his career:
Pictures of [Hailie] had came out, and I’m like, what, 20 years old, 21 at the time? I said 'she’s beautiful, but all respect due. Eminem is king.' What’s wrong with that? Is there a 15-year age gap where I’m a creep for that? I was 21, dawg. Certain people took it, and ran with it and hyped it up. […] Certain people won’t even listen or review [my album]. Certain places, you won’t even hear Machine Gun Kelly on.
March 1, 2018
Machine Gun Kelly low-key shades Eminem on Tech N9ne's song "No Reason." The following verse is apparently a direct reference to his rival's (aka Eminem) song "Rap God:"
I pop cherries and popstars, you popsicles is not hard
Popped in on the top charts out the cop car
To remind y'all you just rap, you're not God
And I don't care who got bars
August 21, 2018
Eminem drops his new album Kamikaze, and after six long years he finally calls out MGK for the comments he made about Hailie on the track "Not Alike."
But next time you don’t gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun
And I’m talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are, Kelly
I don’t use sublims and sure as fuck don’t sneak-diss
August 31, 2018
Tech N9ne removes himself from the narrative and denies knowing MGK was dissing Eminem on his track (suuuuuure, friend):
September 3, 2018
Machine Gun Kelly releases another Eminem diss track called "Rap Devil," which is, IDK, fine I guess, and includes lyrics like:
Took you six years and a surprise album just to come with a diss
and...
Tough talk from a rapper paying millions for security a year
'I think my dad’s gone crazy,' yeah Hailie you right
Dad’s always mad cooped up in the studio yelling at the mic
You’re sober and bored, huh (I know)
About to be 46 years old, dog.
September 12, 2018
Eminem sits down for an interview with Sway Calloway and chats about the time he saw MGK's tweet about his daughter. (Yep, we're still talking about that saaaaaaame tweet.) "One day, you know, you go down a fucking wormhole on YouTube or whatever," he says. "I see 'Machine Gun Kelly Talks About Eminem's Daughter' or whatever. I’m like 'what the fuck?' I click on it…he starts doing a press run, basically, about Hailie. I’m like 'what the fuck? Yo, my man better chill.'"
He then proceeds to slam his rival, saying "The reason I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that. The reason that I dissed him is because he got on—first he said 'I’m the greatest rapper alive since my favorite rapper banned me from Shade 45' or whatever he said, right? Like I’m trying to hinder his career. I don’t give a fuck about your career. You think I actually fucking think about you? You know how many fucking rappers are better than you? You’re not even in the fucking conversation."
September 14, 2018
Eminem releases "Killshot," a giant MGK diss track that's filled with burns—including this gem:
Here’s that autograph for your daughter, I wrote it on a Starter cap
Stan, son, listen, man, dad isn’t mad
But how you gonna name yourself after a damn gun and have a man bun?
MGK responds on Twitter, mocking Eminem for taking so long to return the diss:
September 17, 2018
MGK shows up to his slot at Fall Out Boy's concert wearing Eminem's "Killshot" art on a shirt. Wow. ~edgy~
(Psst: He was booed during his performance of "Rap Devil," which, well, yikes.)
September 19, 2018
Fans on Twitter whip out a bunch of receipts and attempt to prove that this entire beef has been staged, including allegations that MGK and Eminem are on the same record label and share a producer:
Some fans even speculate that "Rap Devil" was actually uploaded months ago, but was set to private. Freaky.
Annnnd that brings us up to date! I'm going to go eat some chocolate and listen to anything but these two men.
