Machine Gun Kelly Recollects ‘Hating’ Jelly Roll 10 Years Earlier than Collab

Through the 2024 Folks’s Selection Nation Awards, which passed off on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Thursday evening, the singer accepted the award for Crossover Track of 2024 for his and Jelly Roll’s track, “Lonely Street,” and recalled how he and the nation star went from “hating one another” 10 years in the past to teaming up on their collaboration.

“Jelly, I really like you! We went from 10 years in the past hating one another to elevating one another. Comparability is the thief of pleasure,” MGK, 34, stated in his speech. “There may be sufficient room on the sofa for everyone. We discovered camaraderie within the chaos.”

“Final yr, I used to be proper there, sitting in that seat, watching my boy rock on that stage,” he added. “And I used to be like, ‘Man, I hope someday we’re up there.’ And we’re right here!”

Kelly and Jelly Roll — who did not attend the awards ceremony as he had a live performance in Boston — gained the Folks’s Selection Nation Award over fellow nominees Zach Bryan and John Mayer’s “Higher Days,” Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan’s “Cowboys Cry Too,” Put up Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Assist,” Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus’s “II MOST WANTED,” Kylie Minogue, Orville Peck & Diplo’s “Midnight Trip,” Marshmello and Kane Brown’s “Miles on It,” and Shaboozey and Noah Cyrus’ “My Fault.”

Kelly and Jelly Roll beforehand opened up about their previous feud whereas showing on the September 13 episode of Spotify’s Countdown To podcast.

“I used to be just a bit spiteful, bitter f–king dude,” Jelly Roll stated. “We had been type of robotically compelled in opposition to one another anyhow. I defined this to individuals and so they do not perceive the idea due to our age. Now, each time I speak to my daughter, I am like, ‘You bought to know there was solely, like, seven white rappers on earth at the moment.'”

“So it was so aggressive while you [were] in that pool that we had been type of robotically compelled in opposition to one another anyhow,” he continued, to which Kelly stated that the group was “bred to hate one another.”

Jelly Roll additionally jokingly added that Kelly’s look was a contributor to their beef.

“You had been simply skinny and good-looking. I used to be only a hater,” he stated. “You recognize what I am saying? I used to be only a hater, dude!”

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