There’s no love lost between Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor and rapper/rocker Machine Gun Kelly. It all apparently started when MGK and his producer, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, reached out to Taylor to record a song for MGK’s “Tickets To My Downfall” album. Taylor wasn’t thrilled with the tune, declined the offer, and then the war of words started.
Taylor explained the situation on the most recent ShipRocked cruise in the Q&A portion of his show. “If you don’t know, they asked me to do a tune with him,” Taylor said. “They sent it to me. I didn’t dig it. And I tried to do something with it because of my respect for Travis, because he and I worked together before. They sent me these really weird notes and they wanted me to sing his words. And I just said, ‘I’m not gonna do it.’ And I sent an e-mail. I posted that e-mail. And I didn’t hear back from him. And I thought it was done.”
Months later, Taylor took issue with an MGK interview on Instagram Live. “And he goes off on this f*cking rant about rock stars and comfortable shoes. It sounds as smart as you think it is. … I mean, spit was coming out of his face. And I’m watching it and I’m going, ‘You f*ck. You’ve been here for five minutes, basically, and you’re gonna f*cking run your mouth about bands that have been doing this for 20 f*cking years, like in the mud, in the dirt. They’re gonna wear whatever the f*ck they want. You’re gonna walk in here with your f*cking black tongue and try to talk some sh*t on some bands that would f*cking circle your *ss? F*ck you.’ So when I had my opportunity to say something, I did. And I didn’t call him out. I just said what I said about people failing in one genre and sliding over to another. And that upset him.”
MGK took a shot at Slipknot at least year’s Riot Fest in Chicago. “You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing?” he said during his show. “Being 50 years old wearing a f*cking weird mask on a f*cking stage, talking sh*t. Let me see who chose to be here instead of with all the old weird dudes with masks.”
Recently, in the new Machine Gun Kelly documentary on Hulu, MGK addressed the entire feud which he said was unfortunate. “It’s funny, the whole Slipknot issue (which really isn’t a Slipknot issue, it’s a Corey issue),” he said. “That situation’s unfortunate because I think both of us let our egos get in the way. You know, I was a fan of Slipknot. I was a fan of Corey. That’s why I’d asked him to get on ‘Tickets to My Downfall.’ He obviously had mutual respect, too, because he cut a verse. I kind of tried to give notes back, like ‘oh, you know, this wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, can we try this?’ And respectfully he was like, you know, ‘no.’ And I was like, ‘okay, cool.’ So we didn’t use it. You know, then I heard him on a podcast.” Taylor said: “I hate all new rock, for the most part. The artists (in quotes) who failed in one genre and decided to go rock… and I think he knows who he is.”
MGK continued: “I could have handled it differently. I should have just picked up the phone and been like hey dude, ‘why would you say that’? But, instead, we all acted ridiculous.”
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