Machine Gun Kelly Blames Eminem Beef For Low “Hotel Diablo” Sales

MGK Says Beef With Eminem Caused Low Sales Of His ‘Hotel Diablo’ Album

Machine Gun Kelly had a heated beef with Eminem couple of years back. He was called out on “Not Alike” and responded with “Rap Devil” in a matter of days, which prompted Em to drop ‘Killshot’ where he went hard on the Houston, Texas native.

MGK revealed during a recent conversation with Dave Franco for Interview Magazine, that the beef impacted on the sales of Hotel Diablo.

Kelly confirms that his public perception was at an all-time low following the beef, despite the fact that he actually held his own like any rapper should. “As a hip-hop album, [Hotel Diablo] is flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album,” he explains.

 

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“But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day.”

“It’s like if you make a shitty movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did,” he explains.

“What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think.”

 

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