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Zach Bryan has come under several controversies since his time in the spotlight.
The 30-year-old country singer has most recently come under fire amid his breakup with Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia in October 2024, which spawned a diss track from her “BFFs” podcast cohosts, Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards. The track, titled “Smallest Man,” references several of Zach’s scandals. From his run-in with the law in 2023, to his alleged feud with Noah Kahan, we broke it all down below:
The “BFFs” podcast hosts unveiled their diss track for Zach on Wednesday, November 6, a few weeks after his breakup with Brianna. Although, it has since been removed from all social media platforms due to copyright.
ICYMI, Zach confirmed his and Brianna’s breakup on his Instagram Stories on Oct. 22, over a year after the two first began dating in June 2023.
“Addressing something: Brianna and me have broken up with [each other] and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart. She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her,” the country singer wrote. “I have had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go our different ways.”
Following his announcement, Brianna released her own statement and a YouTube video, saying she felt “blindsided” by the post.
“I’m probably not gonna post this for a little while, but I just woke up to Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up and I had no idea that post was going up,” she said in the video, while sitting on her bathroom floor. “He didn’t text me, he didn’t call me.”
Fast forward to “Smallest Man,” and the track features lines like “lyin’ Zach Bryan” and references his own songs, including “Pretty soon you going to need a revival,” a clear nod to his well-known track, “Revival.”
Throughout the song, Dave and Josh also touch on several of Zach’s controversies, including his infamous drunken post about Kanye West being better than Taylor Swift. Dave — ever a Swiftie — raps at one point: “Think you’re on some s—t tryna diss Taylor Swift, did a hundo ‘gram stories apologizing like a bitch.”
That’s not the only one of Zach’s public disputes they reference in the song, either. Scroll through our gallery below to uncover all of Zach’s controversies over the years.
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