Mgk opened up about his feud with Corey Taylor of Slipknot on the Tuesday (May 5) episode of Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza’s podcast.
“What do you do if someone punches you in the face?” mgk asked Garza after the host mentioned the beef, to which Garza said he would punch back. “That’s what happened. I got punched in the face and I punched back, and that’s crazy?”
The artist continued by sharing that prior to his feud with Taylor, he and Slipknot’s Sid Wilson were good friends. That relationship, though since fixed, was fractured as a result of the beef.
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“Now me and Sid are back cool. And Corey and I haven’t had a chance to speak,” mgk said. “We were both tripping.”
He then doubled down on his stance on “punching back,” saying that he has “no remorse” for how the feud began. The rapper-turned-rock star followed up by sharing that he had invited Taylor to be a feature on his 2020 album Tickets to My Downfall, the LP on which Machine Gun Kelly transitioned from rap to pop-punk.
“I said, ‘I think it would be really cool to see you do this type of verse on this song,’ as a fan,” mgk said. Taylor was supposed to be a feature on “Can’t Look Back” which is on the deluxe version of the album. He shared that he had a great time collaborating with Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst (the mgk/Durst collab “Fix Ur Face” just topped Billboard‘s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart), and he hoped for the same results when working with Taylor. However, mgk explained that Taylor pushed back against plans for the track before pulling out completely. “He was just like, ‘Oh, that’s not what I want to do, so I’m gonna just opt out of the record.’”
After the album dropped and was successful, he saw Taylor, “somebody that [he] looked up to,” “s—ing on [him].” The feud officially began in 2021 when Taylor made a comment about artists switching genres to rock when they “failed” in their previous styles, ending his statement with, “I think he knows who he is.” Afterward, during a Riot Fest performance, mgk lambasted Taylor on stage.
“You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing? Being 50 years old wearing a f—ing weird mask on a f—ing stage, talking sh–,” mgk said at the time.
“Like I said, it’s a punch in the face, what’re you gonna do? You punch back,” mgk said on the Garza Podcast before adding that everyone turned on him afterward. “It’s the same thing Corey would’ve done.”
Though the two have not yet hashed things out, mgk closed out the conversation with Garza by saying he is still a fan of Slipknot. But make no mistake, he “did not appreciate what happened.”
Watch the full Garza Podcast episode below.
