Machine Gun Kelly isn’t staying silent amid the wave of on-line hate surrounding his new single, “Cliché.”

Regardless of the monitor hovering up Spotify charts and incomes the title of final week’s Favourite New Music, not everybody’s vibing with Machine Gun Kelly’s stylistic shift, and he’s had sufficient.

Identified for his gritty rock anthems and punk edge, MGK stunned followers with a extra polished, pop-centric sound on “Cliché,” which rapidly sparked a flood of backlash from critics on social media. However in true MGK vogue, he turned the hate into content material.

In a video posted to his socials, the genre-bending artist pulled out his cellphone and commenced scrolling via posts dragging the brand new monitor, calling out trolls by identify. “Offended insecure dudes are so CLICHÉ,” he wrote within the caption, an unapologetic nod to the monitor’s title and its lyrical undertones.

One of many first customers he referred to as out was @Gingerbeargage, who had shared the music video with the cruel caption, “What is that this rubbish?” adopted by “The poster is even gahyer.”

MGK zeroed in on the typo, smirking as he repeated, “Gahyer. Spelt G-A-H-Y-E-R.”

However he didn’t cease there. As he scrolled via extra essential feedback, MGK provided a mic-drop second for the trolls, “Simply inform me you’re insecure. Inform me you discovered your girlfriend watching this music video.”

He then circled again to Gage and added, “It’s a pop tune, man.” And simply to essentially drive the purpose dwelling, MGK pulled up a photograph of what he imagined the person seemed like, a balding older man furiously pointing at a digicam, earlier than letting the picture converse for itself.

And on Instagram, he additionally popped into the feedback part of a viral publish from @louaista, who posted a clip of the “Cliché” music video with the caption: “Followers are saying that that is what beefing with Eminem does to your rap profession.”

MGK fired again straight, “Nah, that is what doin’ no matter tf you need and having enjoyable appears like.”

The remark racked up 1000’s of likes and immediately reignited the long-running narrative surrounding MGK’s style shifts since his notorious feud with Eminem.

The feud’s origins date again to 2012, when a then-rising MGK tweeted about Eminem’s daughter, Hailie Jade, who was simply 16 on the time. The tweet learn, “Okay so I simply noticed an image of Eminem’s daughter… and I’ve to say, she is sizzling as f-ck, in essentially the most respectful approach attainable as a result of Em is king.”

MGK later claimed he meant no hurt, however the injury was finished. Phrase rapidly unfold that Eminem and his workforce weren’t happy, resulting in MGK being allegedly blackballed from media platforms like Em’s SiriusXM channel, Shade 45.

The stress simmered till 2018, when Eminem dropped his shock album Kamikaze and referred to as out a number of artists by identify, together with MGK. On the monitor “Not Alike,” Em took direct goal at Kelly, “And I am talkin’ to you however you already know who the f-ck you might be, Kelly…”

The diss didn’t go unnoticed.

Simply days later, MGK clapped again with the explosive monitor “Rap Satan,” a daring counterpunch that mocked Eminem’s age, profession, and persona, “Robust discuss from a rapper paying hundreds of thousands for safety a yr…” and “Nonetheless can’t cowl up the very fact the final 4 albums as dangerous as your selfie…”

Eminem responded with “Killshot,” a scathing takedown that followers nonetheless reference at the moment. The tune painted MGK as a jealous upstart and included strains like, “I’m 45 and I’m nonetheless outselling you…” and “I needed to provide you with a profession to destroy it.”