‘BFFs’ Hosts Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards Liberate Zach Bryan Diss Monitor

Not anything says BFFs like a diss monitor with complete manufacturing high quality. No less than, that’s what Barstool podcast hosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards appear to be pondering. 

Whilst the remainder of the U.S. used to be ready on the result of the 2024 presidential election, Richards and Portnoy — who cohost the weekly Barstool pop-culture podcast BFFs along Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia — launched a diss monitor titled “Smallest Guy,” taking direct purpose at nation singer Zach Bryan over his breakup with LaPaglia.

“I stated believe me, stuck your pants on hearth/Tinder Bumble Raya, knew you used to be a liar/You’re a douchebag, you simply made a brand new rival/Beautiful quickly you gonna desire a revival,” the 2 sing in cop costumes, entire with ridiculous faux mustaches. Within the video, which has since been got rid of from Instagram and Fb. Portnoy and Richards, dressed like law enforcement officials for far of the video, rap their accusations within the face of an actor made to seem like Bryan, dissing the rustic singer’s seems to be, tattoos, and behaviour. It additionally comprises actual audio from Bryan’s 2023 arrest in Oklahoma and references resurfaced tweets of Bryan’s criticizing Taylor Swift. “Assume you’re on some s—t tryna diss Taylor Swift / Did a hundo ‘gram tales apologizing like a complain,” the 2 rap.

BFFs has been on a damage since final week, when LaPaglia introduced they might be skipping no less than one recording so she may just prioritize her psychological well being amid her breakup with Bryan. The singer-songwriter is absolute best recognized for his rising fandom within the nation tune house. After going viral in 2019 with a grainy video making a song his unique music “Heading South,” Bryan briefly become a staple within the style, in the end taking house the Absolute best Nation Duo/Team Efficiency Grammy in 2024 for his duet “I Bear in mind The entirety” with Kacey Musgraves. (He used to be lately at the quilt of Rolling Stone’s annual Musicians on Musicians factor along Bruce Springsteen.)

LaPaglia and Bryan have been first noticed in combination on the 2023 American Tune Awards and dated for approximately a yr sooner than Bryan introduced their breakup on his Instagram tale in past due October. “Brianna and me have damaged up with every different and I recognize and love her with each and every ounce of my middle,” he wrote. “She has liked me unconditionally for a long time and for that I’ll at all times thank her. I’ve had a surprisingly laborious yr in my view and struggled via some beautiful serious issues. I assumed it will be really useful for either one of us to head our alternative ways. It’s not that i am best possible and I by no means can be. With the whole thing I’m and to someone I let down, I’m sorry. I take a look at my absolute best in the whole thing. I failed people who love me and most commonly myself.”

LaPaglia has maintained that she used to be shocked by means of the general public announcement. “I had no concept that submit used to be going up,” she stated in a brief video posted on YouTube, in the end crying. “I’m utterly blindsided by means of that.”

After making a number of feedback about Bryan’s persona for breaking apart LaPaglia, Portnoy took it a step additional. The diss monitor takes (infrequently) suave purpose at Bryan’s previous errors whilst managing to reference each his greatest hits and different fellow nation stars like Tyler Childers and Noah Kahan. However in all probability the largest sin of all is that podcast hosts additionally allege Bryan kicked out Portnoy’s rescue canine, Peaches, from his dressing room at a display.

The tune video has since been got rid of from YouTube and Instagram on account of a Warner Tune Team copyright declare (Bryan is signed to Warner Tune Team and didn’t reply to Rolling Stone’s request for remark) however the audio is lately streaming on Spotify. Portnoy and Richards additionally introduced that BFFs would go back with a brand new episode on Thursday at 8 p.m., which means that enthusiasts who need to pay attention extra in regards to the breakup from LaPaglia would possibly in spite of everything get their probability.