After Machine Gun Kelly slammed Slipknot's Corey Taylor over the weekend, Travis Barker has been pulled into the drama.
"You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing? Being 50 years old wearing a f*****g weird mask on a fucking stage, talking s**t," the 31-year-old said at Chicago's Riot Fest.
"very odd that when an artist talks s**t, and i respond, i’m the bad guy," the "my ex's best friend," singer tweeted on Monday, September 20.
"corey did a verse for a song on tickets to my downfall album, it was f*****g 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," he tweeted later.
The comment MGK is believed to be referring to was from Taylor's appearance on "Cutter’s Rockcast" in February. "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," he said at the time.
"I don’t like people airing private shit like a child. So this is all I’ll say: I didn’t do the track because I don’t like when people try to 'write' for me. I said NO to THEM. So without further ado…. #receipts This is all I’m going to say about it," Taylor tweeted on Monday along with screenshots of what appeared to be an email conversation he had with Barker.
Barker seemed to have sent "notes" from MGK to the "Psychosocial" singer about his verse on a song. The 45-year-old was a producer on Tickets To My Downfall.
"Can u tell him he f****n killed it and im stoked and HONORED he is even on it wtf !!!" Kelly seemingly said, via Barker. "I sent Corey an idea for the second half of his verse and he can obviously say f**k it but it would be sick to see if it inspired anything or if he could try it like that," one of the suggestions read.
"So I listened to the ideas and to be honest, I don't think I'm the right guy for the track. Nothing personal, I just think if this is what MGK is looking for, someone else is the guy to do it," Taylor replied to Barker.
"It's ALL good, and I'm stoked for him— I hope you guys find the right fit for it. Hope you guys understand and I wish you guys the best with it. If I can help in any way, let me know," he continued.
"basically, your verse was really bad. respectfully, i was just telling you to rewrite it because it was really bad. respectfully. but let’s do a britney spears song cover together," Kelly, who was born Colson Baker responded to Taylor on Twitter.
Barker does not appear to have weighed in on the beef.
Kelly later said on his Instagram Story that "the older generation and weird stans gotta stop."
