Country singers Zach Bryan and Gavin Adcock appeared to get into a heated altercation at an Oklahoma music festival over the weekend.
Adcock shared a video on Instagram showing Bryan appearing to yell, “Hey, want to fight like a man?” and bang on a chain-link fence toward Adcock and his crew on Saturday at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor.
In the clip, Bryan appeared agitated as he spoke to Adcock, who was surrounded by several people. After banging on the fence, Bryan walked away. “When you get death threats from Sack Cryin before you headline in his hometown,” Adcock captioned the video.
Another video on social media showed Bryan scaling the wire fence to get to Adcock’s side.
On Sunday, Adcock explained his side of what happened in that heated exchange.
He said in his Instagram video that Bryan had been at the festival all day with multiple security guards, but came around to Adcock just before his set.
“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,” Adcock said.
“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 badass jump over the fence’ narrative, just to try to make himself look bigger or tougher, even though he could have just walked on in the gate,” Adcock continued. “I didn’t take the Zach Bryan bait, and I’ll be praying for him to get better because he sure needs it.”
Adcock said he didn’t engage further with Bryan because he didn’t want to get into a fight before performing and didn’t want to disappoint his fans.
NBC News has reached out to representatives for Bryan for comment.
The two stars have been in an ongoing feud.
Back in July, Adcock appeared to call out Bryan for how he treated a teenage fan.
“If you can’t handle the criticism of a 14 year old why do people idolize you?” Adcock wrote on X at the time. “That kid was head over heels to meet you and spent/ parents spent a ton of money to see you.”
Adcock addressed those comments on Rolling Stone’s “Nashville Now” podcast in August, saying, “It wasn’t about not wanting to sign autographs after a show. It’s like letting a 14-year-old kid rant without saying ‘Get off my d—.’ You’re bigger than that.”
