Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards are Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia’s final defenders following her breakup with Zach Bryan.
The “BFFs” podcast hosts launched a diss observe titled “Smallest Man” on Wednesday, November 6. Whereas the tune was faraway from YouTube on copyright grounds, its music video continues to be obtainable to observe on Instagram.
“I stated belief me, caught your pants on hearth / Tinder, Bumble, Raya, knew you was a liar,” the tune begins. “You’re a douchebag, you simply made a brand new rival / Fairly quickly you going to want a revival.”
Within the music video, Portnoy, 47, and Richards, 22, are dressed as policemen and pull over a person who seems to be like Bryan, 28, driving a pickup truck.
Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and her Barstool Sports activities colleagues are talking freely about her ex-boyfriend Zach Bryan — particularly since he apparently blocked all of them on Instagram. The “BFFs” podcast — which LaPaglia, 25, cohosts together with her boss, Dave Portnoy, and TikTok star Josh Richards — teased a tune titled “Smallest Man” set to be launched […]
The lyrics declare Bryan “f—ed up” and inform him to “go and publish it in your Instagram Story.”
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Bryan introduced his cut up from LaPaglia in a social media publish late final month (therefore the Instagram reference). The Barstool Sports activities persona — who cohosts the “BFFs” and “PlanBri Uncut” podcasts — claimed she was “blindsided” by the announcement, alleging she and Bryan agreed to maintain the breakup information below wraps.
Portnoy and Richards wasted no time taking photographs at Bryan on the observe, referencing the titles of his songs “Revival” and “I Bear in mind The whole lot” within the lyrics.
“You say you keep in mind all the things, I suppose not since you forgot about your marriage ceremony ring / This ain’t a subtweet, I ain’t coming subliminal, you’re nice at being nation with out a second syllable,” Richards sings. “My fist plus your face, easy addition / The way in which you probably did her unsuitable, man is sickening.”
Bryan was briefly married to Rose Madden for one yr from 2020 to 2021. He moved on with Deb Peifer shortly thereafter, they usually had been collectively for 2 years earlier than breaking apart in Might 2023. Bryan began courting LaPaglia in July of that yr.
Richards additionally references Bryan’s Oklahoma roots, saying, “However you’re from OK, nicely, OK, in the event you say so / Kinda ironic as a result of quickly you’re getting this KO.” (Bryan’s tune “Oklahoma Smokeshow” can also be talked about on this portion of the diss observe.)
“On the lookout for pink skies, however now you’re seeing stars / There’s one thing within the orange and it’s you behind these bars, bitch,” the tune continues earlier than transitioning into audio from Bryan’s September 2023 arrest. (Bryan was arrested on an obstruction of investigation cost and launched on bail shortly thereafter.)
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Portnoy later calls Bryan “ugly” and throws shade on the singer’s “s—ty tats.” The Barstool Sports activities founder additionally says that Bryan’s “head seems to be like a Lego” and he has hair “like Homer Simpson.”
Dave Portnoy and Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia’s friendship has come a great distance through the years. Portnoy, 47, based Barstool Sports activities in 2003, however LaPaglia, 25, didn’t be part of the workforce till a lot later. She received her begin with the podcast community in 2020 as an intern. The group contacted her by way of social media after her movies […]
“Nation singing boss child, get that boy a snack / Throw one other mood tantrum, it’s time for a nap,” the lyrics proceed. “Suppose you’re on some s— tryna diss Taylor Swift, did a hundo ‘gram tales apologizing like a bitch.” (Bryan wrote by way of X in September that he believed Kanye West was higher than Swift. He later apologized for the message, claiming that he had been consuming.)
Portnoy additionally calls out Bryan for attempting to “cut up up” LaPaglia and her greatest pal Grace O’Malley. (The pair have said that they’re nonetheless pals however went by way of a tough patch this previous yr.)
“Contemplate this a warning for the subsequent woman that dates you,” Portnoy sings. Richards chimes in, including, “We all know for a proven fact that your complete band hates you.”
The diss observe ends with a snippet from Bryan’s tune “28,” which is about his relationship with LaPaglia.
“How fortunate is Bri to be freed from ZB,” Portnoy and Richards sing, tweaking Bryan’s authentic lyrics.
LaPaglia took a psychological well being break from each of her podcasts amid her cut up from Bryan. However on the finish of the tune, it’s introduced {that a} new episode of “BFFs” might be launched on Thursday, November 7.
