The rapper again surprised the music world with an unannounced album, “Music to Be Murdered By”. But one thing is a fact: MGK not only survived the clash, he also came out stronger. Maybe people are getting tired of the quarrel, or simply don’t care anymore. But this time, the diss song didn’t get as much attention – about 5M views so far – while his music video for “Glass House,” for instance, has gotten 12M views up to now. Monthly engagement jumped from 18M in June and 31M in July to 37M in August. Of course, the release of MGK’s new album triggered a large number of YouTube views on his channel. In July 2019, MGK released his fourth studio album “Hotel Diablo”, featuring the track “FLOOR 13”, in which he again attacks Eminem: “I just spent too many minutes watchin’ little videos of shitty wannabe rappers dissing me/I just spent the winter livin’ after someone tried to send a kill shot, missin’ me.” Now, there’s no proof that the dispute is staged, but the numbers do reveal that they both benefited from the clash, especially with their diss songs. Eminem’s producer on the song “Not Alike” was Ronny J, while “Rap Devil” was produced by Ronald Spence Jr., which is the same person. Many emphasized that Eminem and MGK are both on the same record label (Interscope) and even share a producer. MGK was mocking Eminem with this tweet for taking so long to respond.īy the end of September, social media was abuzz with talk that the whole thing had been staged. But this was just the calm before the storm. At this point, we can’t notice any real impact of the diss on MGK’s career. This was MGK's first musical attack on Eminem, and quite a few of people resented him for sneaking a diss into someone else’s song, especially because Tech N9ne later said he didn’t know those verses were against Eminem. In March 2018, MGK collaborated with Tech N9ne on the song “No Reason”, and in one of his verses, he disses Eminem in reference to his song “Rap God”: “ To remind y'all, you just rap, you're not God.” There's a spike in Google searches of MGK’s name after the interview, so he did get a bit of attention at the time. MGK claimed in an interview for Hot 97 FM on October 2015 that Eminem had him banned from certain radio stations. “ Let's call Sway, ask why I can't go on Shade 45 because of you,” he said later in his 2018 diss “Rap Devil”. The tweet has since been deleted from MGK’s official account, but its screenshot is alive and well on the internet. The biggest question is, however, when is a musician good or big enough to take on such an opponent and profit out of it? It’s been quite a while since we've heard really good, full-blown diss songs between two artists of such a caliber (with the exception of Pusha T's "The Story of Adidon" and Drake’s "Duppy Freestyle"), so it’s no wonder the feud held the public's interest. No shade, we’re "Wild 'n Out" fans. 😉īut the brawl between MGK and Eminem is somewhat special. It got lots of media traction, and Google searches for Nick peaked the highest since his marriage with Mariah in 2008.
Nick came after Eminem with his own diss after Em called out Mariah and him on Fat Joe’s track. His latest bout was with Mariah Carey’s ex-husband Nick Cannon in December 2019. He became famous by battling in the clubs of Detroit, after all, so he’s an experienced veteran. In his long career, he has fought with artists such as Christina Aguilera, Ja Rule, Limp Bizkit, Mariah Carey, Cage, and Everlast. There’s no denying it, Hip Hop is a battleground, and Eminem does have a great deal of firepower in his arsenal. His unannounced album “Music to Be Murdered By” that just dropped got around 51M Spotify streams on the first day, and is his fastest streaming album ever. Eminem’s fans are loyal and quick to tune in.
The fact is that artists rarely survive a beef with Eminem. Did MGK bite off more than he could chew? Eminem is definitely in the heavyweight category.
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