Machine Gun rappers Kelly and Eminem clashed with opposing background records.(Photo: AP, Getty Images)

The rap oxen are generally bad. The name is cheesy to write and even to say aloud. Compared to the quarrels that shaped the genre – Notary B.I.G. and 2Pac representing their East and West Coast rap factions, Jay-Z and Nas at war for New York King Kanye West and 50 Cent. without consequence.

It's a tired game at the moment, where the superstar rappers are starting to play at the pace of the release dates, which implicitly boosts sales and dominates the weeks on the front page. Just look at the conflict between Machine Gun Kelly and Eminem, who is barely a week old and is already exhausting.

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Twitter reacts to "Rap Devil", to the quarrel "Not Alike".

MGK claims Eminem on stage: "It's a battle between the past and the future"

MGK, for those unfamiliar, is a 28-year-old Cleveland rapper, whose recent accomplishments include his single "Bad Things" with Camila Cabello and not much else. It's easy to confuse him with his more well known rap counterpart, G-Eazy, who's hilarious, because before Eminem's drama overflows, MGK exchanged dissident songs with the rapper "No Limit" on a so-called love triangle with singer Halsey, claiming that his opponent had dyed his hair and had "a suspended ear loop" in order to look like him. It's apparently the state of hip-hop drama in 2018 – fully-grown men who mutually accuse each other of suspected auditory piercings.

Enter Eminem, who also looks like G-Eazy and MGK, as they are all white with different levels of blonde hair. The Detroit rapper released his surprise album "Kamikaze" on August 31, and between his anger towards his collaborators with his repeated insistence on rapping gay insults, he cut his place in his lyrics to take clichés on the song Not Alike. For the source of this quarrel, Slim Shady dated back to 2012, to a comment tweeted by MGK about his 16-year-old daughter Hailie at the time, with MGK writing: "Ok, I just saw the Eminem's daughter. and I must say that she's hot as (explosive), in the most respectful way possible (because Eminem) is king.

Why did Eminem decide to go back eight years to restart a fight that no one was asking for? Maybe he worked on his list of murders, up to the name of MGK all the way down. Or, maybe he has confused MGK with a rapper whose business really interests us. Be that as it may, MGK enthusiastically took the bait of Eminem, responding with the dissolutive piece "Rap Devil", while painting their quarrel as a generation fight.

"I defend not only me, but my generation," he tweeted about the song, telling an audience in Grand Rapids on Thursday night that the quarrel is "a battle between the past and the future".

MGK's wild trust is one of the many negative aspects of this quarrel, as if a rapper with no consecutive releases of this decade could be considered the future of the genre. One thing he has corrected, however, is that Eminem is indeed the past of the genre, with his new album "Kamikaze" criticized by critics. And as noble as Eminem thinks to be in defending his daughter, the fact that he's a 45-year-old man who has spent his whole life bringing together disgusting things about women and spends the rest of his album "Kamikaze" and "whores" deny any kind of moral superiority that he tries to claim.

Unfortunately for us, the quarrel is probably not over yet, as Eminem still needs to respond to MGK's "Rap Devil" claims. And, as the two men's race continues, it's hard not to be nostalgic of Pusha T, whose evisceration of Drake earlier this year with "The Story of Adidon" had all that was missing from MGK and Eminem: lyricism, media gossip and, above all, the real issues.

In comparison, nobody cares about the end of the story of MGK and Eminem. So, it's probably time we all stopped paying attention.

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