Nation singer Gavin Adcock has spoken out towards Beyoncé‘s “Cowboy Carter,” stating throughout a current reside efficiency “that shit ain’t nation music.”

Adcock put Beyoncé within the crosshairs after opining that “Cowboy Carter” was forward of different data on the Apple Music nation charts. “One in all them’s Beyoncé, you may inform her we’re coming for her fuckin’ ass,” he stated. “That shit ain’t nation music and it ain’t ever been nation music and it ain’t gonna be nation music.”

Adcock, who was nominated for brand new male artist of the 12 months on the 2025 Academy of Nation Music Awards, later posted a follow-up on social media explaining the reasoning behind his phrases for “Cowboy Carter,” which took dwelling album of the 12 months on the Grammys in February.

“I’ma go forward and clear this up,” he stated. “After I was a little bit child, my mama was blasting some Beyoncé within the automobile. I’ve heard a ton of Beyoncé songs and I truly bear in mind her Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present being fairly kick-ass again within the day. However I actually don’t imagine her album needs to be labeled as nation music. It doesn’t sound nation, it doesn’t really feel nation, and I simply don’t suppose that folks which have devoted their complete lives to this style and this life-style ought to need to compete or watch that album simply keep on the high simply because she’s Beyoncé.”

Beyoncé beforehand defined that the thought for “Cowboy Carter” got here to her after she went via an expertise the place she did “not really feel welcomed” by the nation music institution. “It was born out of an expertise that I had years in the past the place I didn’t really feel welcomed… and it was very clear that I wasn’t,” she stated on social media. “However, due to that have, I did a deeper dive into the historical past of Nation music and studied our wealthy musical archive.”

She was probably referring to her efficiency of “Daddy Classes” on the Nation Music Affiliation Awards in 2016 alongside the group then often known as the Dixie Chicks. Even after she launched “Cowboy Carter” and broke a number of data with the album, she was shut out of nominations for that very same present, sparking a backlash towards the establishment.

Adcock, in the meantime, is gearing up for the discharge of his new album “My Personal Worst Enemy” on August 15. He’s subsequent slated to open for Morgan Wallen on 4 of the singer’s “I’m the Drawback Tour” in Miami Gardens and Toronto.