Machine Gun Kelly’s Eminem Diss “Rap Devil” turns five.
It’s been five years since Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly traded shots at each other when the Cleveland rapper released the diss track “Rap Devil“. The song was produced by Ronny J, and it arrived with a music video, which currently has over 370 million views on the YouTube. “wow rap devil turned 5 years old today. happy birthday to my little demon baby,” he wrote on Twitter.
wow rap devil turned 5 years old today
happy birthday to my little demon baby pic.twitter.com/YN8qO0pmON— blonde don (@machinegunkelly) September 3, 2023
The track was in response to Eminem dissing Kelly on the song titled “Not Alike”, which appeared on his surprise tenth studio album “Kamikaze“. The Detroit rapper took shots at Kelly for his comments about his daughter Hailie Jade in 2012, at the time when she was only 16 years old.
“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,” Kelly said about the tweet in 2015.
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Following Rap Devil, Eminem released another MGK diss track titled “Killshot“. The song is reportedly the reason behind the end of Kelly’s rap career, as he switched his genre from hip-hop to pop-funk.
“Yes. [The 2019 album] Hotel Diablo is that for me because that was the first time I really expressed my true self with no outside influence, meaning the label,” said MGK in an interview with Dave Franco. “As a hip-hop album, it’s flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album. But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day. It’s like if you make a shi–y movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think. That’s why the project was ironically my best-received one because it was the most effortless, with the least outside influence.”
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