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Jack White replies to Charley Crockett’s latest post – and Crockett doesn’t hesitate to respond (again)
Twin Temple, Jack White, and country music artist Charley Crockett are still embroiled in a spectacular story, as per MetalInjection. White, who responded with a rap song, also lost some of Crockett’s respect. Crockett blames the band’s “production requests” that “raised eyebrows simply because we couldn’t accommodate them physically,” despite Twin Temple‘s claims at the time that Crockett expelled them from two of his gigs due to the Satanic imagery in their onstage theatrics. Crockett was further offended by White‘s offer to add Twin Temple to one of his bills in order to make up for it all; he claimed that White had merely made the offer to sell tickets. At last, White gave an intriguing response to Crockett’s remarks.
I never said nothing about this young buck before but since he’s trying to drag me into this here rodeo again, here’s my official response to Cowboy Charley’s accusations:
In an Instagram post, this is what White wrote. He went proceeded to share the complete lyrics to Shawn Brown‘s 1984 novelty rap song “Rappin’ Duke,” which basically implied that he had been in the game for a lot longer than Crockett.
But if you think that Crockett has been burying the hatchet, you are sorely mistaken. This is the newest post he added, obviously addressed to Jack White:
Hey Jack, you might get 6 into me before I get 1 into you but I don’t miss. And actually I ain’t that young. I got 300 songs out and 150 unreleased plus a new record on the way which puts me about even with your entire career output in a third the time. To quote Jay Z, “you sound a little naive in those articles I read”, talking about just last fall you had to stop watching the news, vicious cycle, somethin’, somethin’, somethin…..you’re getting too old for this shit Mr. Suzy Cream Puff. I was born in 1984 surrounded by cotton fields and I never trusted the media from the beginning. That goes for my whole generation old man. The younger they get the less they trust the machine. What wore you out on the media? Epstein Files? pandemic? 9/11 wasn’t enough? Gulf war 1? Gulf War 2? The end of Net Neutrality? The telecommunications act? Vietnam? How bout JFK getting offed in Dallas back in 1963? You know all this. But like Trump or any politician, you play to your base. I don’t care what you said in you’re songs. I’m talking about your public statements back when it was on the line in 2003. Look up my first record A Stolen Jewel. I been about it. Lemme guess, you got Che Guevara and Malcolm X on your shelf, maybe even Fred Hampton, but at the end of the day you get in the Lamborghini and put your kids in private school. I’ve seen behind the same curtain as you, and if you don’t play it just like they say they’ll never let you on the radio. So how’d you get on there? Ask UMG about CC, they hate me because they couldn’t own me. But I digress…The point is some art kids lied for publicity at my expense and you poured gas on it stereotyping me at a glance. Go ahead and conveniently ignore the fact that they lied. Same hypocrisy as the demagogues you claim to stand against. Lucky it was me, too strong to beat, around long enough not to let it kill me, but when that kind of public shame gets dumped on some poor kid who ain’t ready it might mean their life. Happens everyday big hoss. If you want the smoke, I’m your man.
Stay tuned for the next chapter…