mgk has confirmed that a line in his song “FIX UR FACE” with Fred Durst was aimed at Yungblud, ending speculation that had grown after a 2024 appearance on The Osbournes podcast. Speaking on The Garza Podcast, he said the lyric, “Mickey Mouse kids turned rockstars / Leaving private schools, tryna be outlaws,” was part of a three-minute song full of lines about different things.
“The song is three minutes of lines about different things but yeah, the specific line, loyalty is really the only thing that matters,” mgk said. He added, “When I open my heart that means I’m vulnerable and I let you in,” and said he was hurt when someone was given a chance to defend their friend and did not. “And so when someone’s given an opportunity to defend their friend and they don’t, then that breaks my heart,” he said.
He said the fallout went deeper than a diss track. “It shatters me. Be my friend in public the same way that you are in private. You know, but it’s an angry line in an angry song. A line is a line and I don’t really like to describe art,” he said. He later added, “That shit hurt me but that is that,” before saying, “I forgive man. Like, I forgive like... I forgive.”
The speculation centered on Yungblud’s 2024 appearance on The Osbournes podcast, where Kelly and Sharon Osbourne discussed fashion and mgk while Yungblud did not defend his onetime collaborator. The lyric also drew attention because “Mickey Mouse kids” was seen as a reference to Yungblud’s pre-music life, including his time at Ackworth School, a private day and boarding school, and later the Arts Educational School in London, which he left in 2015.
Yungblud’s early career also included work on the Disney drama and mystery series The Lodge, and he recorded “Tell It Like It Is” for its soundtrack. With mgk now saying plainly who the lyric was about, the bigger story is no longer the guesswork around the line but the rupture he described: a friendship strained by silence, then closed off by forgiveness.
