Walker Hayes Teases New Diss Track About Zach Bryan
Walker Hayes | Credit Robert Chavers
Walker Hayes has responded with a diss track after Zach Bryan’s dig about his song “Fancy Like” on X/Twitter earlier this month.
The short snippet of the song found on Hayes Instagram references Bryan and the situation singing, “Something in the orange says you’re feeling green” and “Jesus didn’t die for me so I could fight with Zach Bryan”.
Hear the audio below…
Walker Hayes shared the audio to his Instagram Feed with the Caption:
“Me and my buddies were talking about the whole Zach Bryan thing. They were saying they appreciated how I responded. I confessed that they only saw my best foot forward.I had a hundred smart ass responses in the chamber that I didn’t fire off. Then we got to talking about people in general. Why we get insecure, etc. Mostly about how artists size each other up, compare, and talk trash. It’s obviously our natural human tendency to be a little butt hurt by anyone else’s success. Then we wondered about that. Why on earth we would do that as song writers. Knowing that .0001 percent of us are actually making it in this biz. Took me 18 years to feed my kids with music and I’ll still knock something I hear on the radio cuz I didn’t write it. So, we tried our best to put it all in a Twanger. And this is what we got. I hope it makes y’all talk about stuff that matters.”
The beef between the two artists started earlier this month on X/Twitter when Zach Bryan tweeted about his love for fellow artist Tyler Childers and his shock when finding out this was Childers first number 1 single on Mainstream Country Radio.
‘First ever’ is fuckn insane, one of the best songwriters to ever do it https://t.co/GdkuWiWDvq
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) January 9, 2024
He continued to express his feelings on Twitter/X while indirectly calling out Walker Hayes song Fancy Like.
Imagine being radio (whoever the hell that is), hearing Shake the Frost and being like ‘no no let’s go with the Applebees song’ https://t.co/8ZWuBXoBYM
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) January 9, 2024
Hayes eventually saw the tweet and decided to take the high road, having nothing but nice things to say about everyone involved.
Big shout to radio for playing dat Applebees song💪💪 Zach and Tyler praying y’alls continued success🙏
— Walker Hayes (@walkerhayes) January 9, 2024