Gavin Adcock Speaks Out On Months-Long Feud With Zach Bryan Following Viral Festival Incident

Gavin Adcock has publicly addressed his recent altercation with Zach Bryan at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma, on September 13. The pair of artists have been involved in an ongoing feud for several months now, and over the weekend things nearly turned physical just before Adcock was scheduled to perform.

Following the video went viral online showcasing the moment Bryan jumped a face in an attempt to fight his fellow country act, Adcock appeared on the latest episode of Wake Up Barstool to share his perspective of the situation.

The feud between the singer/songwriters began back in July, when Adcock took to social media to call out Bryan’s response to a 14-year-old fan who expressed disappointment over not meeting him after a concert at MetLife Stadium.

At the time, Adcock wrote, “If you can’t handle the criticism of a 14-year-old old why do people idolize you? That kid was head over heels to meet you … you’re a ‘grown man’ nearly 30. They’re the only reason you are around.”

Bryan’s response to the young fan, which has since been deleted read, “You’re not entitled after someone plays two and a half hours to a picture or a hello,” adding the acronym “GOMD.”

After Bryan clearly didn’t take kindly to Adcock’s remarks, he used the festival as a chance to confront him directly. Speaking to Dave Portnoy, T-Bob Herbert and Brandon Walker about the entire situation, Gavin Adcock said, “I doubled down and then I guess he’d been sitting at home twiddling his thumbs, thinking about it for too long.”

He went on to explain that upon arriving to the festival, he was told by staff that Bryan, who appeared as a surprise guest to sing with Gabriella Rose, was planning to stop by during the event. Eventually, the “I Remember Everything” singer made his way to the back end of the festival and found Adcock hanging out by the busses.

“He comes in with his two security guards, big 6’4’’ guys, real tough guy, and sees me standing between the buses. We’re about to do a cold plunge. He said some stuff, walked on and then proceeded to linger around the bus for about an hour and a half while we were sitting in there watching some college football. And he finally left,” Adcock recalled.

However, he hadn’t seen the last of Bryan, because he later returned and this time, he was looking for a fight. A video posted to Adcock’s social media platforms show Bryan attempting to scale a barbed-wire fence to confront him. They started off with a heated exchange of words with the fence between them.

Bryan yelled, “You wanna fight like a man? Open the gate.”

Adcock captioned the clip, “When Sack Cryin sends you death threats before your hometown show.”

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Although Adcock’s response can’t be heard, Bryan’s temper clearly elevates when he shoves the fence towards the country star. Security was then forced to intervene once Zach Bryan made his way to the other side of the fence.

“I wasn’t going to fight him because I had a show to play. I had business take care of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line. 10,000 of his hometown fans out there screaming my name and screaming F him, which I thought was hilarious. And so yeah, I just basically talked to some dirt with him until he raged out and climbed over the fence,” Adcock explained.

Even if a fight would have broken out, Adcock didn’t appear to be worried about his ability to go up against Bryan.  

“There was seven security guards standing around, not for only for my safety, but for his safety. And if I would’ve took off after him or he would’ve took off after me, the security guards were just going to grab us and not let us do anything,” he told the podcast hosts. “Plus I was just being the bigger man. Y’all like to call him the smallest man in the world. He seems to wear that fu**ing pretty good.”

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Dave Portnoy, who has also had his fair share of beef with Bryan, matched Adcock’s dislike for the singer/songwriter, claiming “I think the guy’s a psychopath.”

Despite the drama, Gavin Adcock revealed that all the of the attention coming from this feud, both good and bad, has been a “blessing in disguise” for his career.

“People were talking in the comments about how I was going to lose followers. I’m like, nah, I’m up about 30,000 followers in two days on Instagram. The streams are going to look great this year. I just dropped the biggest album of my career, 24 songs. I’ve dropped a song a month since I started and I’m just coming after playing stadiums as well. So I hope we beat the attendance record in America when it’s all said and done.”

Gavin Adcock’s rise in success comes admit his Need To Tour. The trek launched in May and is set to run through December, with a final set of shows taking place Las Vegas, NV.