“I think they’re gonna find each other’s heart”

Jelly Roll has reflected on the ongoing feud between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, saying that he thinks he can bring it to an end.

The Nashville rapper and singer-songwriter spoke about his friendship with each of the artists during a recent interview with the Flagrant podcast, and revealed that he wants to be the one to see them put their differences to one side.

“They’re gonna get together one day, eventually,” he said, adding that he hopes to “bring them together”.

He also revealed that, as a friend to each of them, he sees “so much more of them in each other than they know.”

“I haven’t really brought it up to Marshall [Mathers, Eminem’s real name] yet, because I’m just still kind of glad that I’m still in that circumference to be able to have those conversations,” Jelly Roll told the host, adding that he has mentioned the idea to MGK.

“I gave him some perspective too,” he recalled. “We all grew up watching Eminem take over the game early. If you got mentioned in an Eminem song, it was like being mentioned in a comedy special. You’re on fucking fire. You couldn’t be hotter.”

“I think that they’re gonna find each other’s heart more than they don’t,” Jelly Roll concluded during the interview. “If they never do connect that way, [the feud] did more for both of them than it did to hurt either one of them.”

As highlighted by Billboard, the Detroit rapper and the rap-turned-rock artist have been locked in a feud since 2012. This first arose when Machine Gun Kelly, who was aged 22 at the time, took to Twitter to refer to the ‘Without Me’ rapper’s then-16-year-old daughter as “hot as fuck”.

Eminem would later make a reference to Kelly six years later in his track ‘not Alike’, which contained the lines: “I’m talkin’ to you, but you already know who the fuck you are, Kelly / I don’t use sublime and sure as fuck don’t sneak-diss / But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie.”

Kelly hit back with tracks like 2018’s ‘Rap Devil’ – a nod to Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’.

“Tough talk from a rapper payin’ millions for security a year / ‘I think my dad’s gone crazy,’ yeah, Hailie, you right / Dad’s always mad cooped up in the studio, yellin’ at the mic,” MGK rapped in the track. “Man, you sound like a bitch / Man up and handle your shit / Mad about somethin’ I said in 2012 / Took you six years and a surprise album just to come with a diss.”

The most recent jabs towards MGK came both in 2020, when Em referred to him on his track ‘Unaccommodating’, and in his latest album ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’, which contained the track ‘Bad One’.

In the latter, the rap icon makes reference to his beef with the lines: “I gotta keep going Tyson on Kelly / I bodied him twice and already / That little motherfucker’s back throwing subs like a food fight at the deli.”

‘The Death Of Slim Shady’ was given a three-star review by NME which read: “Much more powerful is ‘Temporary’, a genuinely moving ode to his daughter, Hailie, which proves Marshall Mathers can say something that matters when he wants to.

“So, who killed Slim Shady? In bringing him back to the light and showing him up as irrelevant, perhaps Eminem’s done his old pal in for good. OK, we get it – Shady was a shocking character. Now that he’s dead, how about getting some new material?”

In other Eminem news, the rapper recently shared his admiration for Kendrick Lamar and said that he thinks the rapper will clean up at the 2025 Grammy Awards.

As for MGK and Jelly Roll, the former recently opened up about how his 15-year-old daughter helped him to get sober, while the latter spoke out about his meeting with Donald Trump and how he addressed rumours of Satanism.