Machine Gun Kelly (Post-2019)

**Colson Baker** (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as **Machine Gun Kelly** (**MGK**), is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and actor. He has released four studio albums since *Lace Up*, his first, was released in 2012. He made his film debut in the 2014 romantic drama *Beyond the Lights*. He has also appeared in several other films and had a recurring role on the Showtime series *Roadies* in 2016.He embarked on a musical career as a teenager, releasing a mixtape in 2006. He went on to release four more mixtapes. Baker then secured a recording contract with Bad Boy and Interscope Records in 2011. His major label debut album, *Lace Up*, was released in October 2012 to positive response from critics. The record contained the singles "Wild Boy", "Invincible", "Stereo", and "Hold On (Shut Up)", and debuted at number four on the US *Billboard 200* chart; it was later confirmed to have sold more than 178,000 copies.

In early 2015, Baker released the singles "Till I Die" and "A Little More" for his second studio album, *General Admission*, which released in October 2015, and debuted at number four in the US. The album incorporated darker tones and storytelling, with elements of rap rock and R&B. His third studio album, *Bloom*, was released on May 12, 2017, preceded by "Bad Things" with Camila Cabello, peaking at number 4 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 and becoming his highest-charting single. His fourth studio album, *Hotel Diablo*, was released July 5, 2019, and was supported by three singles: "Hollywood Whore", "El Diablo", and "I Think I'm Okay" (featuring Travis Barker and Yungblud). His fifth studio album, *Tickets to My Downfall*, was released on September 25, 2020 and marked a departure from rap in favor of pop punk, with production entirely helmed by Barker

**Born** Colson Baker in Houston, Texas, **MGK** lived almost a dozen places, including Egypt, before moving to Denver, Colorado with his father after his mother began a new **life** with a new man. "I don't have a relationship with my mom, she left when I was nine **years** old," says **MGK**. In Denver, the Bakers lived with **MGK's** aunt

## Good qualities

1. He has some good songs such as "Breaking News" and "At My Best".
2. His XXL Cypher was great.
3. Ironically, he made a good cover of Linkin Park's "Numb" as a tribute to the late Chester Bennington.
4. With his 2019 album *Hotel Diablo*, he decided to make rock music, which is really good and better than his rap music
5. "Tickets To My Downfall" was amazing.
6. "Hotel diablo" was a huge improvement over MGK's 2018 EP "BINGE"
7. he has good flow
8. his freestyles are good
9. Rap Devil was a decent diss track witch actually got a response from Eminem, the beat was hard and MGK's flow was okay. Some of the disses were really good and referenced many things about Eminem the 4th verse was lyrically structured well While this may be just a decent diss track
10. Like him or hate him it's admirable that he had the bravery to go against one of the best, lyrically talented, respected and fear rappers of all time
11. He is very versatile especially with rap, rock, and pop punk.
12. "Lockdown sessions" was great.
13. He did surprisingly good as Felix in Bird Box.
14. His wordplay is decent.
15. His 2017 album "bloom" was good.
16. He can do well with features sometimes like with Tech N9ne's "No reason".
17. The production for "BINGE" was decent on the "BINGE" EP The instrumental used for "Get the Broom." is good and despite the overload of autotune, the lyrics on "Lately" has a decent meaning.
18. His songs Home, My Ex's Best Friend , At My Best and Breaking News all have pages on Best Music Wiki

## Bad Qualities

1. His rap style just seems pretty generic and is nothing special or original sometimes
2. He's pretty cocky, has an egotistical attitude, was called out for his misogynistic and racist statements, and is pretty horrible to some people during his tours, such as tricking his friend into smoking a joint laced with his and another person's pubic hair, which is just awful.
3. He's apparently named after a gangster, bootlegger, and criminal from the early 1900's, which is pretty dumb for a rap name. Sure one could argue it's a creative thing. But naming yourself after a famous criminal is not the best way to present yourself.
4. Although most of his old work was praised by both the audience and critics, most of his new work these days has been panned for its poor lyrics and lack of a unique sound and direction.
5. While on the topic of his new content, whenever he is featured on someone's song or has a feature on his own song, he time he seems to do worse than everyone else on the track.
6. Kelly had an interview with The Breakfast Club in which he acts like an imbecile.
	* Plus he calls out Eminem for talking about his man bun in the song KILLSHOT, after he talked about Em's beard which is extremely hypocritical.
7. Months after his brutal defeat at the hands of Eminem, he still thinks he won the beef as he says that he "survived a killshot" in his song "Floor 13" which shows he's a sore loser who can't take losing and won't move on.
8. Like Lil Yachty, Lil Xan, Lil Pump, Justin Bieber, and even Jacob Sartorius, when he sings, he uses way too much Autotune to the point where he sounds like a robot.
9. He ruined Young Thug's "Ecstasy".
10. Prior to Hotel Diablo and Tickets to my Downfall, he has gotten worse in some of his newer songs, especially his EP Binge
11. In "RAP DEVIL" he has the hilariously bad opening lines in disstrack history with the notorious "Ayy, somebody grab him some clippers his fuckin' beard is weird" bar
12. The "BINGE" EP was horrible, the "BINGE" EP seems to be dependent on his beef with Eminem the EP was so bad it's number 11 on the worst albums of the year list on Album Of The Year the EP also includes the awful song "Long Time Coming" which is just MGK singing through layers of autotune which sounds terrible. A lot of the songs on the "BINGE" EP have painfully simple flows, speaking of lack lyrical content, MGK denied being a mumble rapper in the Breakfast Club interview, but then he proceeds to mumble in the 2nd verse of LiveFastDieYoung for example.
13. A great diss track named KILLSHOT is at him