Machine Gun Kelly fully transitioned from rap to pop-punk with his 2020 Tickets To My Downfall album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release.
But despite MGK’s success in the genre, fans at the Louder Than Life Festival weren’t so welcoming to the wiry, guitar-playing singer. Held in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday (September 25), the annual rock fest featured artists such as Metallica, Korn, Jane’s Addiction, Anthrax and Judas Priest.
When it was time for Machine Gun Kelly’s set, the crowd began flipping the former rapper off and shouting “boo” as he stood onstage.
As for why, it could be tied to the disparaging comments Machine Gun Kelly made about Slipknot while performing at Riot Fest in Chicago earlier this month.
Not only did he say he was happy to not be a “50-year-old wearing a mask” like lead singer Corey Taylor, he also claimed Taylor did a verse for Tickets to My Downfall that was “fucking terrible,” so it didn’t make the album.
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But Taylor fired back with receipts via Twitter, writing, “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.”
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They’re probably booing him because he’s not a full-fledged rock singer. He’s part of hip hop. That’s Kentucky, where true prejudice is very open and real. So there.
No I’m pretty sure they’re booing him because he sucks.
And KennyKen is like all the other losers who cant make anything out of there life’s so they blame racism and all the other typical bs. Face it you are no man, so you let other men control your thoughts and life. Quit crying and figure out how to thrive and stop being a bottom feeder which you are with a comment like that. MGK is a crybaby dork and so are you.
Settle down Stan. No need for that aggressive of a response.
This website has a hard time directing comments…that response was for AllYallSoftAF
Or they’re pissed because he disrespected what they consider to be a legendary band. Imagine a rock band sending shots at Nas or Kendrick and then trying to play at a primarily hip hop festival. How do you think that goes?
Or he is trash and people there to see acts like Korn and Slipknot aren’t trying to hear some pop rock
@kennyken,the fuck? No they booed him because he bashed slipknot who’s considered legends in the genre. It’s like going to a hip hop festival and saying “fuck Tupac and Biggie, they were trash”. You’d probably get anywhere from booed to knocked unconscious before you finished your set
No it’s cuz they hate anyone who has at one point ever at any point in their lives embraced n*****. They’re the epitome of racist and the fact that MGK embrace black culture by beginning his career as hip hop and has a black baby momma is a BIG NO NO in their eyes. That’s Turtle (McConnell) and Rand “When There’s Conflict, I Run And Hide Away” Paul Country we’re talking about here.
you are whats wrong! why you have to bring up racist
Umm, have you been to Kentucky. Wait you must be one of them. A black person definitely wouldn’t say that.
Klansman says what?
People who defend MGK is just another weirdo in the lost generation of the tight pants.
Mgk is a pussy he run from mc gregor a real men would fight!
Some crazy theories in the comments. They booed him cos he sucks.
Mgk has pearls on his face . It’s a metaphor for Eminem’s cum.
Jesus Christ this guy is a compulsive fucking liar. No wonder Eminem slaughtered his ass
Mgk is not only embarrassing himself but also travis barker.. i grew up on hiphop and poppunk while skating in the 90’s, i loved tickets to my downfall(hated all his hiphop records) but its quite clear that mgk is a f*cking manchild, disrespecting rock legends like slipknot at a festival where pop punk doesn’t belong in the first place lmao. eminem ended his rap career and now he’s ending his pop punk career himself, hopefully he doesn’t drag travis down with him.
Damn, homie…in high school you was the man homie; fuck happened to you?
Just the reminder I leave on every MGK related story that “rap devil” went way harder than “killshot”. Eminem sells more records because every lame who ever got bullied masturbates to his music, but he hasn’t left his basement since he got off his hillbilly heroine in 2007. MGK pulled Megan Fox and is seen at large public events all the time, plus he has songs on the radio, which Em hasn’t had since 2013.
You’re embarrassing yourself, chill
Really? I still hear Monster and Love the Way you Lie sometimes and I’m sure Em has bagged some very desirable women, including famous ones, in his time. He just isn’t isn’t type to flaunt or be seen in public with them
Does it hurt? To be this stupid? I think tickets to my downfall with adult valve but it’s delusional fans like you that are going to keep getting this dude booed off stage
are those pearls on his face or a big fat load?
There are some Disturbed souls in the comments ???
It’s real simple. Y’all conspiracy theorists. U can’t diss a goat in HIPHOP, runaway when u lose and your album flops … go to a another genre and diss another goat – then they embarrass u as well … and expect to have warm welcoming a at festivals. MGK is a punk ass bitch boy. That’s all. Nothing more nothing less
Piece of shit Virus looking unhealthy wannabe simple and his Bitch Megan is a Retard ….
You mad ?