What did Machine Gun Kelly say about Eminem's teen daughter that got him in hot water? And
why have some called him racist? Keep watching to find out that and more about the controversial star.
Machine Gun Kelly is no stranger to making headlines for a slew of reasons, whether it's
with his surprising net worth or his decision to change his name. He's known for firing
off eyebrow-raising tweets, but one of his most controversial came in 2012. That's when
he decided to openly thirst over Eminem's daughter, Hailie Jade, who was then 16. Tweeting
that he had seen photos of her, he proclaimed,
"She is hot as f—, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king."
Well, Slim Shady saw nothing respectful about it and, according to Kelly, it affected his
career. Speaking with Hot 97's Ebro in the Morning, Kelly claimed the tweet is the reason
why some people won't listen to or review his album and some places won't play his music.
However, he was adamant he did nothing wrong, saying,
"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?"
"No."
"I was 21, dawg."
He was still addressing the tweet in 2018 when he told The Breakfast Club he didn't
think his comment was disrespectful. However, he appeared to backtrack, saying he didn't
actually know how old Hailie was when he made his remarks. He also conceded,
"I'm a father, I have a nine-year-old daughter, I get it, 100 percent.”
As for the person at the center of the drama — Em's daughter — a source told HollywoodLife
that she was not happy with the publicity.
Machine Gun Kelly may be adamant that he meant nothing harmful by calling Eminem's then-16-year-old
daughter hot, but that wasn't the only time he made questionable comments about underage
girls. Rounding up receipts, the Screenshot pointed to a string of problematic tweets
that MGK has since deleted. In one, the rapper proclaimed,
"I wish 13/14/15 year old girls weren't allowed to be hot so I wouldn't feel like such a creeper
when I look at them."
In another, he recounted meeting a 13-year-old who liked one of his tattoos and seemingly joked,
"Don't [worry] tho y'all I won't pull a R Kelly."
Equally problematic is a largely forgotten 2013 interview with Fuse in which a 23-year-old
MGK called a 17-year-old Kendall Jenner his top celebrity crush. When asked if he was,
quote, "counting down the days" until her 18th birthday, he said no.
"I'm not waiting 'till she's 18, I'll go now."
He then proceeded to defend himself, saying,
"I'm not like a creepy age."
“ … and she's like a celebrity, like, there's no — there is no limits right there."
He talked about other celebrities, falsely claiming that they had dated teenagers, before
going on.
"If Kendall Jenner was in your bedroom naked, and you're 50, you're going."
It's no secret that Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly dislike each other, but their feud runs
deeper than MGK's infamous Hailie tweet. Opening up about their long-standing beef in 2018,
Eminem admitted to Sway that he was upset about Kelly talking about his daughter. However,
he highlighted the real reason he dissed Kelly on his track "Not Alike."
It was back in 2015 when Kelly first made unproven claims that he had been banned from
Eminem's SiriusXM hip-hop channel, Shade 45, because of said tweet.
"He said, 'I'm the greatest rapper alive since my favorite rapper banned me from Shade 45.'"
Well, Slim Shady didn't appreciate that rumor being spread and he unleashed his anger during
the interview, saying,
"I don't give a f— about your career. You think I actually f—ing think about you?
You know how many f—ing rappers that are better than you?"
“You're not even in the f—ing conversation."
Em was also rubbed the wrong way by Kelly's reported diss on Tech N9ne's track, "No Reason."
As he explained, it put him in a weird position because he felt he had to answer, but didn't
want his response to give Kelly even more time in the spotlight.
In the end, he went for it on "Not Alike" and, as he told Sway, he did hear Kelly's
response to that, "Rap Devil." His thoughts?
"It didn't feel like a diss to me. It just felt, like, pitiful."
Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox became Instagram official in July 2020, but according to new
claims from the rapper's ex, model Sommer Ray, he wasn't quite free to hook up with
the actress when he did. Speaking on Logan Paul's Impaulsive podcast in March 2021, the
24-year-old influencer said she dated MGK but things didn't really go her way, claiming
that she never had sex with Kelly because he didn't pass some kind of litmus test, and
then Kelly cheated on her with Megan Fox.
Opening up about Kelly's shady boyfriend behavior, she said he forbade her from attending his
Bloody Valentine video shoot, which starred Fox, because of COVID-19 related restrictions
— an excuse she no longer believes. What's more, she said she joined him and Fox for
their Midnight in the Switchgrass movie shoot and waited in the hotel during the shoot,
not suspecting a thing.
While she didn't specify when she thinks the infidelity began, she's sure it had nothing
to do with her strict rules. She mused,
"I think that even if I was having sex with him, he would still do that with Megan."
In the end though, she said she isn't mad about it.
Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox got engaged in January 2022, launching a million memes
and seriously mixed reaction to Fox's engagement ring. As the rapper explained on Instagram,
the massive sparkler features their birthstones — an emerald and diamond — that were set
on two magnetic bands of thorns that draw together.
"Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are giving a whole new meaning to 'love hurts.'"
Speaking with Vogue days later, Kelly confirmed he wasn't kidding about the thorns, reiterating,
"The bands are actually thorns, so if she tries to take it off, it hurts. Love is pain!"
The design was surely meant to be romantic, but many didn't see it that way. Critics soon
took to Twitter to suggest that it was problematic. One commentator joked,
"Why not design the ring to look like an actual red flag?"
"Ouch."
Eminem isn't the only high-profile artist Machine Gun Kelly has sparred with. In February
2021, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor appeared to throw shade at Kelly and his switch from
rap to rock, telling Cutter's Rockcast he hates, quote, "artists who failed in one genre
and decided to go rock. And I think he knows who he is."
MGK waited until September to fire back during Chicago's Riot Fest, which he co-headlined
with Slipknot. While on stage, he told fans he was happy he wasn't 50 years old and wearing
a mask on stage.
Kelly then took to Twitter to throw more dirt on Taylor, but it would backfire. Explaining
that Taylor once recorded a verse for a song on Tickets to My Downfall, Kelly proclaimed,
"It was f**king terrible, so I didn't use it."
According to him, Taylor was mad about it. Well, that wasn't exactly the truth, and Taylor
had receipts to prove it. Tweeting that Kelly was acting like a child, he explained,
"I didn't do the track because I don't like when people try to 'write' for me. I said
NO to THEM."
He also shared screenshots of texts proving his side of the story. However, Kelly wouldn't
admit he was wrong and in a petty response tweeted:
"Basically, your verse was really bad. Respectfully, I was just telling you to rewrite it because
it was really bad."
Machine Gun Kelly's allegedly shady fan behavior was put on blast in May 2021 in a viral TikTok
video posted by @emmielamp. Sharing a 2019 encounter she had with Kelly when she was
19, Lamp recalled how they met up in Cleveland. Showing screenshots as proof, Lamp said he
liked one of her photos and DM'd her. They agreed to meet up but soon, she was locked
in a bathroom, crying because he had called her dumb and weird and was cussing her out.
Why? In a follow-up video, Lamp said they went to The Diner and when he dropped his
hat, she picked it up. Handing it to him, she accidentally called him "sis," which reportedly
triggered a barrage of insults. She said,
"Maybe it's because we were in front of other people. He said it was disrespectful."
"I said I had to go to the bathroom, and then I started crying and I left, and we never
saw each other again."
Commenters backed her claims, with one writing,
"He does this to girls in the towns that he's playing at."
As further evidence, one fan posted a photo of himself standing next to Kelly at ​​Reading
Festival in 2019 and shared how when he asked for a pic, Kelly ignored him. He went on,
"I asked again, he turned to me, looked me dead in the eye and said 'How many times I
gotta tell you motherf—er just take the f—ing photo.'"
"Have fun Megan Fox!"
Of all of the things that have landed Machine Gun Kelly in the headlines, his comments on
the 2012 BET Awards red carpet top the list. That's because, while doing an interview,
Kelly thought it was the perfect time to talk about oral sex. More specifically, how he
thinks Black women in particular are great at it. Proclaiming he believes that women
of color are too demure, he encouraged them to stop saying they don't do that unless they're
dating someone, and instead,
"Show your skills 'cause Black girls give the best h— 100 percent."
Backlash was swift with MadameNoire dubbing him an ignorant white boy. A change.org petition
was even launched, demanding Kelly be held accountable for his racist remarks towards
Black women by Interscope and Bad Boy Records.
However, the terrible comments he made that day didn't end there. When one woman standing
nearby overheard his speech, she walked away, sparking an unbelievable tirade from Kelly,
who cursed at her and called her explicit names, commenting on her appearance in a derogatory
way.
In 2014, Kelly was asked about the racist comments during an interview with VladTV.
Not one to back down, he stood firmly by what he said.
"And also, that's a f—ing compliment."
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