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.
“The fact that this genre really doesn’t get the f*cking respect that it deserves. You don’t get to walk in as some weird substitute teacher and pretend that you can tell us what to wear.”
Corey Taylor on Machine Gun Kelly
Taylor explained the situation on this year’s ShipRocked cruise in the Q&A portion of his show. “If you don’t know, they asked me to do a tune with him,” Tayor 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.”
During an appearance on “Cutter’s Rockcast” last year, Taylor said, “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.” Taylor continued to explain the situation on the ShipRocked cruise. “But he, to this day, maintains that I started it. It’s, like, the only reason I said what I said is because he said what he said. You don’t get to walk into a genre with the history, with the work… The fact that this genre really doesn’t get the f*cking respect that it deserves. You don’t get to walk in as some weird substitute teacher and pretend that you can tell us what to wear — boots, shoes, house f*cking shoes, slippers. Why don’t you suck every inch of my d*ck? You don’t get to do that.”
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