Mgk Says Yungblud Was Behind FIX UR FACE Lyric With Fred Durst

mgk says a line in “FIX UR FACE” with Fred Durst was aimed at Yungblud, turning a debated lyric into a straight answer. He tied it to loyalty after saying he felt hurt when Yungblud did not defend him during a 2024 episode of The Osbournes podcast.

“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 on The Garza Podcast. He pointed to the line, “Mickey Mouse kids turned rockstars / Leaving private schools, tryna be outlaws,” after teasing that there was “one particular line going over your heads.”

mgk on loyalty and hurt

“When I open my heart that means I'm vulnerable and I let you in. And so when someone's given an opportunity to defend their friend and they don't, then that breaks my heart,” mgk said. He added, “It shatters me. Be my friend in public the same way that you are in private.”

That is the clearest explanation yet for why the lyric landed as a shot rather than a generic barb. mgk was not describing a random feud; he was attaching the line to a specific breach of trust and making loyalty the point of the verse.

The Osbournes episode in 2024

In 2024, Kelly and Sharon Osbourne criticized mgk while Yungblud was a guest on The Osbournes podcast. mgk said Yungblud did not defend him in that moment, and that silence became the part he could not shake.

“That shit hurt me but that is that,” he said. When asked whether it makes it hard to trust people, he replied, “I forgive man. Like, I forgive like... I forgive.”

What the lyric now means

The phrase “Mickey Mouse kids” was described as a nod to Yungblud’s pre-music career, including Ackworth School, the Arts Educational School in London, and his time on the Disney drama and mystery series The Lodge. He also recorded “Tell It Like It Is” for The Lodge soundtrack, which makes the lyric’s school-and-show reference more pointed than a casual insult.

For listeners, the value here is clarity: the line was not just a rhyme to decode, but a grievance about public loyalty that mgk says he has already forgiven. The debate around “FIX UR FACE” now shifts from guessing at targets to reading the lyric in the context of a friendship that turned public, then brittle.