Machine Gun Kelly - Rap Devil (2018)

Some history about the beef between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly. With the surprise release of Eminem's album Kamikaze, Em took aim at many people including Machine Gun Kelly. MGK tweeted that Eminem's daughter was "hot as fuck", when he was 22 and she was 16. Eminem traditionally doesn't take it well when people talk about his daughters. It was known he banned MGK from his radio station, Shade45. But what might not be known as well is that apparently Eminem tried to shelf MGK's album by pressuring P.Diddy and Jimmy Lovine, the founders of labels MGK was attached to. He also apparently pulled a verse that MGK made on Yelawolf's album, YW is signed to Eminem's label. This all comes up in MGK's Rap Devil, response to songs on Kamikaze that targeted him, 27 times to be exact.

Now on to this song, I'm not an MGK fan, he's barely been on my radar, considering the that Eminem effectively hamstrung him every chance he's got since the tweet, I think I now know why. But holy crap, when Kamikaze came out I figured there wouldn't be anyone with the balls, and the chops, to reply to any of the disses in that album in a way that they could hold their own against Shady, but I think I might be wrong. This song and video was created in a few days and I'm really impressed by the quality, although I feel like a lot of it might have been cocked an loaded for a while considered it's been a long time coming. I am really excited to see where this beef is gonna go, whether Eminem ruin MGKs career like he did Ja Rule's or will it propel it to the next level. I'm hoping the latter if this is the level of quality coming from him. I'll be checking him out more in depth from now on.