All of Gavin Adcock’s Feuds, From Charley Crockett to Zach Bryan

On Sept. 13, the feud between Adcock and “Something in the Orange” singer/songwriter Zach Bryan spilled over from online to nearly become an exchange of physical blows, when the two were both performing at the Born and Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma. Video footage shows Bryan and Adcock exchanging heated words on either side of a chain-link fence.

“Hey, do you want to fight like a man? Come open the gate,” Bryan is heard saying, as he shoves the fence. Soon after, Bryan scales a fence and tries to approach Adcock, as other people hold Bryan back while Adcock is ushered away by security.

Adcock later took to Instagram to discuss the moment in a lengthy video, telling his fans, “Like I already said, I don’t think Zach Bryan’s a very good person. He wasn’t locked out of the festival. He had been there all day with his multiple security guards. He saw me standing between my buses when he got here and saw me go to walk on my bus when I watched the Georgia game, proceeded to go to other artists and ask them, ‘Where is Gavin? Where is Gavin?’ and their guests, and treat them like dogsh–, flipping them birds, and saying just douchebag stuff to ’em all … so he had plenty of opportunities through the whole day to do whatever he wanted to do, but decided he was going to wait till like an hour before my set while I was standing out there and no artist that cares about their fans is gonna fight right before their set, missin’ goin’ on, and disappointing fans that spent way too much money to be there.

“I wasn’t even mad, didn’t even have a single reason to fight him,” Adcock continued. “After he had already left, before my set, I was standing outside. He pulls up in a pickup truck, outside the gate, and starts giving out threats, so I just decided to stir him up to the point where he jumped over the fence. I don’t think anybody’s scared of Zach Bryan. I’m just an adult and fightin’ him would only meant going to jail, missin’ my set, and falling into a Zach Bryan lawsuit…He knew where I was all day, he knew my set time, he knew where I’d be standing, and he created this whole ‘I’m a bad-a–, jump up over the fence’ narrative, just to try to make himself look bigger and tougher, even though he could’ve just walked on in the gate…and at the end of the day, I know my decision I made was right, I didn’t take the Zach Bryan bait. I’ll be praying for him to get better ’cause he sure needs it.”

The feud between the two artists stems from an earlier incident in July, in which Adcock seemed to call out Bryan, after Bryan had an online interaction with a 14-year-old fan who was disappointed after not receiving an autograph from Bryan. In a now-deleted comment on TikTok, Bryan had noted to the fan, “You’re not entitled after someone plays two and a half hours to a picture or a hello,” and added the profane acronym “GOMD.” Adcock criticized Bryan’s comment, writing on X, “If you can’t handle the criticism of a 14 year old why do people idolize you? That kid was head over heels to meet you and spent/ parents spent a ton of money to see you. He’s got feeling[s] too and you’re a ‘grown man’ nearly 30. They’re the only reason you are around.”