Eminem's new surprise album Kamikaze already has fans in a frenzy, particularly his lyrics about celebs like Donald Trump and Tyler the Creator. (And there's much-deserved criticism over his continued use of homophobic slurs when referencing the latter.) But the rapper also uses his lyrics to defend his daughter, 22-year-old Hailie Mathers. While Eminem usually speaks about the close and loving relationship he has with Hailie in his songs, the Kamikaze track "Not Alike" fires shots at a Machine Gun Kelly, saying "keep commenting on my daughter Hailie." Here's the verse: But next time you don’t gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun And I’m talking to you but you already know who the f*** you are, Kelly I don’t use sublims and sure as f*** don’t sneak-diss But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie. The beef stems back from 2012, when fellow rapper Machine Gun Kelly tweeted about then-16-year-old Hailie being "hot as f***." This didn't sit well with Em, and the tweet even led to MGK being blackballed by certain media outlets. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Here, the Eminem lyrics reference the Tech N9ne 2018 single "No Reason" that MGK was featured on. MGK used that song to fire shots back, referencing Eminem's frequent collaborator Dr. Dre and Eminem's single Rap God. It's only one option, you gon' need a doctor I ain't talkin' 'bout the one from Compton. I pop cherries and popstars, you popsicles is not hard Popped in on the top charts out the cop car To remind y'all you just rap and not God and I don't care who got bars. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. MGK hasn't responded to the lyrics yet, but there's no telling just how far this rap back-and-forth will go. Temi Adebowale Temi Adebowale is the Editorial Assistant at Men's Health. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Rap beefs are, as a rule, bad. The name is corny to write and even cornier to say out loud. Compared to feuds that shaped the genre – Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac representing their East and West coast factions of rap, Jay-Z and Nas warring to be the king of New York, Kanye West and 50 Cent’s album sales face-off – rap beefs landing in the headlines lately are more often petty and inconsequential. It’s a tired game by now, in which superstar rappers start drama timed to their release dates, implicitly boosting sales and dominating weeks’ worth of headlines. Just look at the brewing conflict between Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem, which is barely a week old and already exhausting. More:Machine Gun Kelly fires back at Eminem's 'Kamikaze' song in new diss track Twitter reacts to 'Rap Devil,' 'Not Alike' feud MGK slams Eminem onstage: 'This is a battle between past and future' MGK, for those unfamiliar, is a 28-year-old rapper from Cleveland whose recent accomplishments include his single “Bad Things”with Camila Cabello and not much else. It's become easy to confuse him for his better-known rap peer G-Eazy, which is hilarious, because before the Eminem drama boiled over, MGK was trading diss tracks with the “No Limit” rapper over an alleged love triangle with singer Halsey, claiming his opponent dyed his hair and “got a hanging earring” in an attempt to look like him. That's apparently the state of hip-hop drama in 2018 – fully-grown men accusing one another of suspect ear piercings. Enter Eminem, who also bears a resemblance to G-Eazy and MGK, in that they’re all white guys with various stages of blonde hair. The Detroit rapper released his surprise album “Kamikaze” on Aug. 31, and in between angering his collaborators with his repeated insistence on rapping gay slurs, he carved out room in his lyrics to take shots at MGK on the song “Not Alike.” For the source of this feud, Slim Shady looked way back to 2012, to a tweeted comment MGK made about his daughter Hailie, who was 16 at the time, with MGK writing, “Ok so I just saw a picture of Eminem's daughter ... and I have to say, she's hot as (expletive), in the most respectful way possible (because Eminem) is king.” Why Eminem decided to reach back years to reignite a fight that nobody was asking for is beyond understanding. Perhaps he’d worked through his kill list, down to MGK’s name at the very bottom. Or, maybe he confused MGK with a rapper whose business we actually care about. Either way, MGK enthusiastically took Eminem’s bait, responding with the diss track “Rap Devil,” while painting their feud as a generational struggle. "I'm standing up for not just myself, but my generation," he tweeted about the song, telling an audience in Grand Rapids Thursday night that the feud is “a battle between the past and the (expletive) future." MGK’s wild confidence is one of the many bad parts of this feud, as if a rapper with no consequential releases this decade could ever be considered the future of the genre. One thing he did get correct, though, is that Eminem is indeed the genre’s past, with his new album “Kamikaze” roundly criticized by critics as proof the rapper may be past his prime. And as noble as Eminem thinks he’s being by defending his daughter, the fact that he’s a 45-year-old man who’s spent a lifetime rapping disgusting things about women and spends the rest of his “Kamikaze” album making questionable claims about “females” and “whores” negates any kind of moral superiority he’s trying to claim. Unluckily for the rest of us, the feud probably isn't over yet, with Eminem still needing to respond to MGK's "Rap Devil" claims. And, as the two men's race to the bottom continues, it's hard not to be nostalgic for Pusha T, whose evisceration of Drake earlier this year with "The Story of Adidon" had everything that MGK and Eminem's limp drama was missing – musicianship, lyricism, newsworthy gossip and, most importantly, actual stakes. In comparison, nobody cares how MGK and Eminem's story will end. So it's probably time we all stop paying attention.<doc-sep>Eminem has finally explained why he took aim at Machine Gun Kelly on new album ‘Kamikaze’ – after revealing that it is ‘a lot more petty’ than him speaking out on his daughter Hailie. Earlier this month, Eminem dropped surprise album ‘Kamikaze‘ – loaded with controversial moments and taking aim at many others with a number of ‘diss tracks‘. Among them was Machine Gun Kelly who came under attack on the song ‘Not Alike’. Kelly then hit back with the diss track ‘Rap Devil‘ – mocking his single ‘Rap God’. Now in his first interview since the album’s release, Eminem has revealed the real reason for the feud. In part 2 of the interview with Sway, he revealed that it was not because he called his daughter Halie ‘hot as fuck‘. Advertisement Instead, he took aim at Kelly after he claimed that Eminem was attempting to hinder his career by banning him from his music channel Shade 45. “The reason that I dissed him is because he got on—first he said, ‘I’m the greatest rapper alive since my favorite rapper banned me from Shade 45,’ or whatever he said, right? Like I’m trying to hinder his career”, Eminem told Sway. . “I don’t give a fuck about your career. You think I actually fuckin’ think about you? You know how many fuckin’ rappers that are better than you? You’re not even in the fuckin’ conversation.” Eminem also took aim at Machine Gun Kelly’s verse on Tech N9ne’s ‘No Reason (The Mosh Pit Song)’ – which sees claiming that Eminem is “just rap and not God”. “Now I’m in this fuckin’ weird thing, because I’m like, ‘I gotta answer this motherfucker,'” he said. Advertisement “And every time I do that, it makes that person—as ‘irrelevant’ as people say I am in hip-hop—I make them bigger by getting into this thing, where I’m like ‘I want to destroy him. But I also don’t want to make him bigger.’ You know what I’m saying? Because now you’re a fucking enemy’ […] I’ll leave it at that. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do at this point right now.” Eminem also admits he heard Kelly’s diss track ‘Rap Devil’, admitting it wasn’t “bad for him. He’s got some good lines in it.” On the track, Kelly claims that Eminem called P.Diddy in an attempt to receive an apology from him. “I’ve never made a fuckin’ call to Diddy. Are you fuckin’ kidding me?”, Eminem hit back. “[…] It didn’t even feel like a diss to me. It just felt, like, pitiful.” He also confirmed rumours that he’s already been working on a response to Kelly. The feud dates back to 2012 over comments Machine Gun Kelly made about Eminem’s daughter on social media, tweeting that she was “hot as fuck.” Since the comments, Machine Gun Kelly alleged that he was banned from various media outlets and in a freestyle with the LA Lakers he rapped: “I’m my favourite rapper alive since my favourite rapper banned me from Shade 45.” Before the feud, Machine Gun Kelly often cited Eminem as one of his greatest influences. Now, he’s described their rift as ‘a battle between the past and the future’. The same interview also saw Eminem discuss criticism of his album ‘Revival‘, and how he ‘cringed’ at the accents he used on ‘Relapse‘. Speaking of Eminem’s follow-up diss track to Kelly, Shady Records producer Mr Porter said: “Right now, he in there working. We doing something else right now, but trust me, we’ll get to it. I’ll tell you this: I wouldn’t wanna be [Machine Gun Kelly]. I “It’s great that you took that opportunity and did that, hey, kudos to you, good for you. The one thing that I’m worried about . . . You remember when Thanos threw that whole planet at Iron Man? [It will be like that].”<doc-sep>
MGK gives out “Free Smoke.” Hot off the release of his third album bloom, Machine Gun Kelly unleashes a fiery new freestyle over Drizzy’s More Life opener. During his visit to Power 106’s “L.A. Leakers,” Kellz rhymed with confidence about his place in the game. “You wanna know who’s in my top 10?” he asks. “Me, me, me, and me again / Run and tell them that it ain’t pretend / No fake news, CNN.” But then, the freestyle finds him reigniting his long-held theory about Eminem. “I’m my favorite rapper alive,” he raps. “Since my favorite rapper banned me from Shade 45.” Back in 2012, when he was 22 years old, Machine Gun Kelly tweeted about Eminem’s daughter Hailie Mathers, who was 16 at the time. “ok so i just saw a picture of Eminem’s daughter…and i have to say, she is hot as fuck, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king,” he wrote. By 2015, MGK said he had been blackballed by various outlets and radio stations for that tweet. “Pictures of [Hailie] had came out, and I’m like, what, 20 years old, 21 at the time?” he told Hot 97. “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.” The backlash was felt from various angles, according to MGK. “Certain people won’t even listen or review [my album],” he said. “Certain places, you won’t even hear Machine Gun Kelly on. Certain things won’t even happen.” Before the alleged ban, Kelly praised Em as one of his bucket-list collaborations. “That would be a fan favorite if an MGK-Eminem song ever went down,” he told Rap-Up in August of 2012, when he called Slim Shady the best rapper alive. MGK’s bloom is out now, while Eminem is reportedly working on the follow-up to 2013’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2.