Slipknot's Corey Taylor Calls Machine Gun Kelly a "Child" for Starting Drama over Failed Collaboration

Taylor decidedly did not get tickets to Kelly's downfall

BY Megan LaPierrePublished Sep 22, 2021

The ever-charming rapper-turned-rocker Machine Gun Kelly has been playing the long game with his latest altercation — and this time, he's taking fire at Slipknot's Corey Taylor.

As previously reported, Kelly used his opportunity behind the mic during his performance at Chicago's Riot Fest this past weekend to trash-talk fellow headliners Slipknot.

"Hey, 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," Kelly told the crowd. "Fucking shit. So anyway, what's everyone's favourite candy? Reese's Pieces?"

You might find yourself wondering, 'Wow, does he really hate masks or middle-aged men that much?' Well, Kelly's dig wasn't necessarily unprompted. Without naming him, Taylor took a shot at Kelly's transition from hip-hop to rock during an interview with Cutter's Rockcast earlier this year.

It started with some general disdain for the youth, which evolved into a pretty direct commentary on Kelly's genre switch.

"The [young artists] that really frustrate me are the ones that they take something that's been around forever and then just basically rework it and call it new — even though it's completely derivative," Taylor said. Isn't everything, though?

"You know the band they're ripping off — they're not even trying to rip off a bunch of bands; they're ripping off one band," the rocker continued. "But the younger generation picks them up and says, 'This is our blah blah blah,' because they're tired of old people telling them that the music that came before them was better." More recently, Taylor called Metallica's "Enter Sandman" the "Stairway to Heaven" of his generation.

Taylor continued: "I'm just as bad. I'm the worst old fogey dude shaking his cane ever and I hate everything. 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. But that's another story."

Now that story's unravelling right before our very eyes.

Post-Riot Fest, Kelly followed up his comments with a tweet on September 20 — revealing that Taylor had actually contributed a verse to his Tickets to My Downfall album. It didn't end up making the record because it was "fucking terrible," according to Kelly, which is what he believes prompted Taylor to talk shit in that interview. "[J]ust admit he's bitter," Megan Fox's boyfriend concluded.
 

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