Joyner Lucas admits to Lollapalooza tweets and apologises to MGK

nme.com:

Joyner Lucas has owned up to sending a series of tweets that took aim at Lollapalooza and Machine Gun Kelly.Last week, tweets sent from the rapper’s account criticised Lollapalooza for Lucas’ placing on this year’s line-up poster while hitting out at “goofy ass” headliner MGK.The four-day Chicago festival shared its 2022 bill last Tuesday (March 22), with Green Day, Dua Lipa, Metallica and J.

Cole all appearing as headliners. Beneath those acts are Doja Cat, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby and Kygo.Lucas, meanwhile, appeared around mid-way down the Lollapalooza poster in the smallest-sized font.

In response, he seemingly took to Twitter to post a series of tweets in which he accused the event’s organisers of “playing” him.The ‘ADHD’ rapper later deleted all of the tweets and claimed that his account was hacked by Russians.“Them Damn Russian hackers dun hacked my phone yesterday smh,” Lucas tweeted on Thursday (March 24).

It wasn’t clear at the time whether this was in jest or not, but now the rapper has shed some more light on the situation, admitting that he did in fact compose the tweets.“Part of being a man is admitting when you fucked up,” he tweeted on Saturday (March 26). “I be getting frustrated when I feel like I’m the underdog all the time.