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Don’t expect country music stars Zach Bryan and Gavin Adcock to share a bill anytime soon. The two, who have been sparring verbally for weeks, got into a face-to-face altercation at a music festival in Oklahoma on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The confrontation happened at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Okla., just before Adcock stepped on stage to perform.<\/p>\n
A video, shared by Adcock on Instagram<\/a>, shows Adcock and Bryan staring each other down and yelling through a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.<\/p>\n “Hey, you want to fight like a man?” Bryan says in the video clip, calling for someone to open the gate separating the two men. Other clips show Bryan<\/a> climbing over the barbed-wire top of the fence and Adcock standing back as security personnel come between them.<\/p>\n Text superimposed on Adcock’s Instagram video alleged that Bryan made “death threats” during the spat, along with the comment: “Eat a snickers bro.” He added another insult while signing someone’s cowboy hat<\/a> later that day.<\/p>\n Adcock, who has 725,000 Instagram followers, released an album called “Own Worst Enemy” in August. He sparked controversy<\/a> in June when he criticized Beyonc\u00e9’s “Cowboy Carter” album on stage, brandishing a bottle while saying “that s\u2014 ain’t country music, and it ain’t never been country music and it ain’t never gonna be country music.” (Earlier this year, Beyonc\u00e9 won Grammys<\/a> for album of the year and country album for “Cowboy Carter.”)<\/p>\n Bryan, 29, who was in the Navy before reaching fame as country\/American singer and songwriter, has 4.9 million Instagram followers. Bryan released his last album, “Zach Bryan,” in 2023. A New York Times profile labeled him “music’s most reluctant new star.”<\/a><\/p>\n Adcock and Bryan’s beef dates to July, when Adcock slammed Bryan for being thin-skinned and not doing a meet-and-greet appearance with fans after a show. Later, Adcock added more harsh words in an interview on Rolling Stone’s “Nashville Now.”<\/a><\/p>\n “I think Zach Bryan puts on a big mask in his day-to-day life and sometimes he can’t help but rip it off and show his true colors,” Adcock said. “I don’t know if Zach Bryan’s really that great of a person.”<\/p>\n Representatives for Adcock and Bryan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts. <\/a><\/p>\n This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n