Jelly Roll has mirrored on the continued feud between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, saying that he thinks he can deliver it to an finish.
The Nashville rapper and singer-songwriter spoke about his friendship with every of the artists throughout a latest interview with the Flagrant podcast, and revealed that he needs to be the one to see them put their variations to 1 aspect.
“They’re gonna get collectively at some point, finally,” he mentioned, including that he hopes to “deliver them collectively”.
He additionally revealed that, as a pal to every of them, he sees “a lot extra of them in one another than they know.”
“I haven’t actually introduced it as much as Marshall [Mathers, Eminem’s real name] but, as a result of I’m simply nonetheless form of glad that I’m nonetheless in that circumference to have the ability to have these conversations,” Jelly Roll instructed the host, including that he has talked about the thought to MGK.
“I gave him some perspective too,” he recalled. “All of us grew up watching Eminem take over the sport early. For those who obtained talked about in an Eminem tune, it was like being talked about in a comedy particular. You’re on fucking hearth. You couldn’t be hotter.”
“I feel that they’re gonna discover one another’s coronary heart greater than they don’t,” Jelly Roll concluded throughout the interview. “In the event that they by no means do join that approach, [the feud] did extra for each of them than it did to harm both of them.”
As highlighted by Billboard, the Detroit rapper and the rap-turned-rock artist have been locked in a feud since 2012. This primary arose when Machine Gun Kelly, who was aged 22 on the time, took to Twitter to check with the ‘With out Me’ rapper’s then-16-year-old daughter as “sizzling as fuck”.
Eminem would later make a reference to Kelly six years later in his observe ‘Not Alike’, which contained the strains: “I’m talkin’ to you, however you already know who the fuck you’re, Kelly / I don’t use chic and positive as fuck don’t sneak-diss / However preserve commenting on my daughter Hailie.”
Kelly hit again with tracks like 2018’s ‘Rap Satan’ – a nod to Eminem’s tune ‘Rap God’.
“Robust discuss from a rapper payin’ thousands and thousands for safety a yr / ‘I feel my dad’s gone loopy,’ yeah, Hailie, you proper / Dad’s all the time mad cooped up within the studio, yellin’ on the mic,” MGK rapped within the observe. “Man, you sound like a bitch / Man up and deal with your shit / Mad about somethin’ I mentioned in 2012 / Took you six years and a shock album simply to come back with a diss.”
The latest jabs in the direction of MGK got here each in 2020, when Em referred to him on his observe ‘Unaccommodating’, and in his newest album ‘The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’, which contained the observe ‘Unhealthy One’.
Within the latter, the rap icon makes reference to his beef with the strains: “I gotta preserve going Tyson on Kelly / I bodied him twice and already / That little motherfucker’s again throwing subs like a meals combat on the deli.”
‘The Loss of life Of Slim Shady’ was given a three-star evaluate by NME which learn: “Far more highly effective is ‘Non permanent’, a genuinely shifting ode to his daughter, Hailie, which proves Marshall Mathers can say one thing that issues when he needs to.
“So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him again to the sunshine and displaying him up as irrelevant, maybe Eminem’s finished his outdated pal in for good. OK, we get it – Shady was a surprising character. Now that he’s lifeless, how about getting some new materials?”
In different Eminem information, the rapper just lately shared his admiration for Kendrick Lamar and mentioned that he thinks the rapper will clear up on the 2025 Grammy Awards.
As for MGK and Jelly Roll, the previous just lately opened up about how his 15-year-old daughter helped him to get sober, whereas the latter spoke out about his assembly with Donald Trump and the way he addressed rumours of Satanism.