Machine Gun Kelly tells Yungblud to “shut the fuck up” and calls him a “silver spooned preachy wanker”
Machine Gun Kelly isn’t impressed with former friend Yungblud, calling him out on social media over his ticket prices and public behaviour.
The 36-year-old musician made the sharp, critical comment beneath a post in which Yungblud blasted the live music industry climate in a recently uploaded clip from an interview on Instagram.
The star, whose real name is Colson Baker, began, “You cancelled a tour because you couldn’t sell tickets blamed it on mental health then got parazzi’d at Nobu the next day Pinocchio.”
The ‘Lowlife’ singer cancelled his North American tour last year, writing at the time that “I don’t want to do any lasting damage to myself, we are on a journey that I want to last forever”. The musician also revealed that he was following his doctor’s orders.
Addressing his current shows, Machine Gun Kelly added, “And your actual tour tickets are still the same price as every other artist,” along with a laughing emoji.
“Shut the fuck up you silver spooned preachy wanker,” the musician concluded.
Recently, Yungblud made it clear in an interview that he isn’t trying to hide his privileged past, sharing, “I am a middle-class kid, I never claimed I wasn’t, and I’m just doing my thing. I’m an English kid who loves his country.”
There wasn’t always bad blood between the pair, who were close collaborators between the late 2010s and early 2020s. Together, they wrote ‘Body Bag’ and ‘Acting Like That’, as well as ‘I think I’m Okay’ with Travis Barker.
Earlier this month, Machine Gun Kelly addressed a rumour that a line in his new single ‘FIX UR FACE’ was about the Doncaster singer. The line reads, “Mickey Mouse kids turned rockstars / Leaving private schools, tryna be outlaws.”
In an appearance on the Garza podcast, Machine Gun Kelly shared, “Be my friend the same way in public that you are in private. It’s an angry line in an angry song… but that shit hurt me.”
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