An actor claims he was ambushed at a Buckhead hotel after a heated exchange with rapper Machine Gun Kelly at a nearby restaurant, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Gabriel “G-Rod” Rodriguez was at the Twin Peaks restaurant on Piedmont Road Thursday night when he ran into the rapper, known for his ongoing feud with rapper Eminem.
He told Channel 2 he’s had an issue with Kelly ever since the rapper called Eminem’s daughter “hot as (expletive)” in a tweet when she was just 16 years old.
Rodriguez pulled out his phone to record before giving Kelly a piece of his mind.
“As a father, I understand that you guys are beefing,” he told the news station. “Rappers beef all the time and go back and forth, but as a father I got to tell you, when you bring family into the beef and you speak on children and his wife, it’s really cowardly.”
The manager of the restaurant asked Rodriguez, who most recently appeared in an episode of “Chicago P.D.,” to leave. It wasn’t until hours later, when Rodriguez was returning to the Hampton Inn across the street, that he had a violent run-in with members of Kelly’s crew, he told Atlanta police.
There was another exchange with a group of people on Kelly’s tour bus.
According to a police report, hotel surveillance footage shows four men chase Rodriguez into the lobby of the hotel.
“In the video you can see one tall black male with a bald head and a gray shirt run up behind Mr. Rodriguez, pick him up off of his feet, and body slam him down to the ground,” police said in the report. “Once on the ground you can see another black male along with two other white males kicking and punching Mr. Rodriguez.”
The man who allegedly body slammed the actor is said to be Kelly’s personal bodyguard, according to police.
“He’s a coward for having his goons jump me," said Rodriguez, who was in Atlanta filming a television show at the time of the attack.
When officers arrived at the hotel about 2 a.m. Friday, none of the assailants were still there. Rodriguez had “major injuries to the right side of his face” but refused to go to the hospital, police said.
A witness with the rapper’s crew told police Rodriguez instigated the fight. He said Rodriguez taunted the group on the tour bus, telling them “I’m a fighter, too” and “I’ll beat all of you one by one.”
Rodriguez told Channel 2 he’s prepared to sue.
“I will drop my lawsuit, everything goes away if he signs a waiver and he meets me in the ring,” Rodriguez said. “Whatever rules he wants to use — MMA rules, whatever. I will drop it all if he meets me one-on-one.”
Channel 2’s attempts to reach a representative for Machine Gun Kelly were unsuccessful.
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