Corey Taylor has reignited his feud with Machine Gun Kelly, calling out the rapper-turned-pop-punker's lack of standing in the rock world and telling him to to "suck every inch of my dick" for disrespecting metal bands like Slipknot. The frontman was spouting off onstage over the weekend on ShipRocked Cruise, where he and his solo bandmates were headlining the annual sea voyage alongside Lamb of God.
During a Q&A session with the audience, a fan asked Taylor about last year's spat with MGK, which all started when the Tickets to My Downfall singer dissed Slipknot onstage at Riot Fest, proclaiming that he was happy to not be "50 years old wearing a fucking weird mask on a fucking stage." After hoards of maggots and other metalheads bombarded the pop star on social media for the seemingly random insult, MGK tweeted that his animosity stemmed from an unused feature Taylor recorded for the pop-punker's 2020 album, which was co-written and produced by Blink-182's Travis Barker.
"Corey did a verse for a song on [Tickets to My Downfall]," the 31-year-old wrote. "It was fucking terrible, so I didn't use it. He got mad about it, and talked shit to a magazine about the same album he was almost on. yalls stories are all off. just admit he's bitter."
Eventually, Taylor himself chimed in and posted screenshots of emails between him and Barker that showed a much different side of the story. In short, it appeared that after sending one vocal take over, Barker responded with notes from MGK asking Taylor re-do the part, which is when Taylor decided that he was no longer interested in the feature. "I don't think I'm the right guy for the track," Taylor wrote Barker. "Nothing personal, I just think if this is what MGK is looking for, someone else is the guy to do it."
Although MGK was met with boos and middle fingers during his next live performance at Louder Than Life, the back-and-forth between the two stars ended there — until now. During his diatribe at ShipRocked, Taylor provided more detail about the origins of the feud, likened MGK's superior posture in the rock world to that of a "substitute teacher," and eventually invited him "suck every inch of my dick." See the full transcript below.
"For those of you that don't know, MGK doesn't like me very much. And let me follow that up by saying I don't care. I won't fill you in on the whole fucking story because you can go online and look it all up. However, I will say this: he maintains that I started it. The truth is he started it. Now, I will explain to you why.
"If you don't know, they asked me to do a tune with him. They sent it to me. I didn't dig it. And I tried to do something with it because of my respect for Travis [Barker], 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 email. I posted that email. And I didn't hear back from him. And I thought it was done.
"Fast forward about eight months, and Machine Gun Kelly is doing this weird Instagram Live interview with Allie from Spotify. And he goes off on this fucking 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 fuck. You've been here for five minutes, basically, and you're gonna fucking run your mouth about bands that have been doing this for 20 fucking years, like in the mud, in the dirt. They're gonna wear whatever the fuck they want. You're gonna walk in here with your fucking black tongue and try to talk some shit on some bands that would fucking circle your ass? Fuck you.' So when I had my opportunity to say something, I did."
At this point, Taylor referenced MGK's Riot Fest outburst and implied that he said what he said because he was jealous that Slipknot's crowd at the festival was larger. "But he, to this day, maintains that I started it," Taylor added. "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 fucking 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 fucking shoes, slippers. Why don't you suck every inch of my dick? You don't get to do that. And these are bands that maybe I don't even fucking know, but guess what? I fucking respect them because they get on fucking stage and they fucking give every fucking thing they've got."
See video of Taylor's speech below.
Corey Taylor’s Q&A. He was asked about the MGK situation. His answer…
Posted by Kris Sterbinsky on Thursday, January 27, 2022
