Lupillo Rivera is once again in the midst of a public family feud, this time with nephew Michael Rivera, Los Angeles-based La Opinión reported.

A few weeks ago, the Mexican ranchero star posted a video on his social network sites suggesting that the young man was in a dire financial situation and did not have "even a peso" to pay his rent, the newspaper detailed; Michael is the son of Lupillo's sister, Jenni Rivera, who was killed in a plane crash near Iturbide, in Mexico's Nuevo León state, in late 2012.

The youngster, for his part, did not hold back when it came to replying to his uncle's accusation.

"I feel sorry for you, old man," Michael wrote in a message to Lupillo. "It must be frustrating that the only way the media pay attention to you is when you do everything you can to bring down your own family," he added in the noted.

Michael, Jenni's third child from her marriage to José Trinidad Marín, also criticized Lupillo for his decision not to participate in the "Jenni Vive 2015" show, which the "Tu esclavo y amo" singer had said he could not attend because "I simply do not like hypocrisy."

"I cannot step onto a stage before thousands of spectators and fake a smile when, in truth, I am feeling uncomfortable," the ranchero star told La Opinión in early June, even though he had said earlier that he had hoped to honor his sister by singing a duet with her daughter Chiquis, according to TV Notas.

"I did not expect you to understand your family's intentions when we planned 'Jenni Vive," Michael contended, "because you have not allowed yourself to be a part of this family for years."

Lupillo, meanwhile, used an appearance on Univision's "El Gordo y la Flaca" current-events program to reply, La Opinión noted.

"What I said is what I said in the video, (but) I never mentioned any (specific) situations or names," the musician explained. "Everybody has his manner of -- and right to -- expressing an opinion; that is good, that is what life is like." All he wanted to add, Lupillo insisted, was that "money was made to be spent."