Machine Gun Kelly 'bodyguards' assault actor who confronted rapper over Eminem dispute

Three members of Kelly's entourage are wanted in connection with the attack

Members of rapper Machine Gun Kelly's entourage are reportedly wanted in connection to a brutal attack on an actor in Atlanta, US last month.

According to local media, police said that battery warrants were obtained for 28-year-old Brandon Allen, 24-year-old John Cappellety, and 42-year-old Lamar Reed.

The men are accused of beating up Gabriel 'G-Rod' Rodriguez on 13 September in a hotel lobby. Surveillance footage released by police appears to show the attack on Rodriguez, who was in the city filming a television show at the time.

It is currently not known whether Allen, Cappellety and Reed still work for Kelly.

Rodriguez claims the fight followed his heated exchange with Kelly at a restaurant, where he confronted him over the rapper's remarks about Eminem's daughter when she was 16-years-old.

TMZ reports that he accosted Kelly in a parking area outside a restaurant in Atlanta and called him a "p***y" for calling Eminem's daughter "hot", apparently siding with the Kamikaze artist in sympathy with his position as a father.

"I'm gonna say it because it had to be said, you're a p***y for going for family," he said, according to the publication.

Rodriguez claims that a few hours later he walked into a hotel across the street from the restaurant and saw Kelly with a number of his entourage. They allegedly shouted threats at each other, with Rodriguez claiming he even egged them on and told them he would fight all of them.

Kelly's feud with Eminem goes as far back as 2012, when Kelly posted a tweet about Eminem's daughter Hailie, calling her "hot as f***... in the most respectful way possible cuz [sic] Eminem is king".

Kelly claimed he was later "blackballed" in the music industry for the comment. Eminem only appeared to respond this year on his diss track "Killshot", which showed the rapper was more concerned with Kelly's apparent assumption that he had become old and irrelevant.

The lyrics read: "Slim you're old... Ow, Kelly, ooh, but I'm 45 and I'm still outselling you.... By 29 I had three albums that had blew... I'd rather me 80-year-old me than 20-year-old you."

Eminem explained his rap in more depth in an interview with Sway Calloway, commenting: "The reason that I dissed him is... First what he said, 'I'm the greatest rapper alive since my favourite rapper [Emnem] banned me from Shade 45' or whatever he said, right? Like I'm trying to hinder his career. I don't give a f*** about your career. You think I actually f***ing think about you?"

Kelly reacted to Eminem's comments with his own diss track, where he mocked Eminem's appearance along with his last four albums.