The Black Keys and Jack White don’t exactly like get along and there was another episode in their long, ongoing feud last night. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney went on a Twitter rant earlier this morning about meeting White at a New York bar Sunday night and claiming that White tried to fight him. White quickly responded and Carney now says everything is fine.
In a series of now-deleted tweets, Carney revealed that he finally met White, but the encounter wasn’t peaceful. “He came to a bar in Nyc I go to a lot with a few friends and tried to fight me,” Carney wrote. “I don’t fight and don’t get fighting but he was mad!!!”
He later wrote that White is “basically [B]illy [C]organ’s dumb ass zero t-shirt in human form.”
The only tweet that Carney didn’t delete was a complimentary one towards White.
White wasn’t too happy about the allegations in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
“Nobody tried to fight you, Patrick,” White said. “Nobody touched you or ‘bullied’ you. You were asked a question you couldn’t answer so you walked away. So quit whining to the Internet and speak face to face like a human being. End of story.”
Carney also sent another statement to EW, writing that, “Music was a collaborative and non competitive thing. So, to get macho bullsh-t from within the musical community makes me angry and sad.”
He also tweeted that he spoke with White this morning and “he’s cool.”
Things might be “cool” now, but they’ve never been “cool” between White and The Black Keys. In 2014, White told Rolling Stone that they were just a rip-off of his old band, The White Stipes. White later apologized on his website.
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