Machine Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly for Kerrang! Magazine, photographed by Jonathan Weiner.

**Colson Baker** (born 22 April 1990), known professionally as **Machine Gun Kelly** (often abbreviated as **MGK**), is an American musician, singer, actor, rapper, songwriter and producer from Cleveland, Ohio. He embarked on a musical career as a teenager; he released a mixtape in 2006. He then went on to release four more mixtapes.

He 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, he 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, rap rock, R&B, and storytelling. His third studio album, *Bloom*, was released on May 12, 2017, preceded by *"Bad Things"* with Camila Cabello, peaking at number four, and becoming his highest charting single on the *Billboard Hot 100*. *Tickets To My Downfall* his fourth studio album, was released 25 September 2020, and *Mainstream Sellout* his fifth studio album, was released 25 March 2022.

He is also an actor, having made his film debut in the 2014 romantic drama *Beyond the Lights*. In 2016, he co-starred and co-executive produced the drama film *The Land*, he had a minor role in the techno-thriller adventure film *Nerve* with Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, and had a recurring role on the Showtime series *Roadies* in 2016. He played Felix in the 2018 Netflix post-apocalyptic horror thriller film *Bird Box* with Sandra Bullock, and portrayed drummer Tommy Lee in *The Dirt*, a 2019 Netflix biographical comedy-drama about Mötley Crüe. He played the role of Newt in the 2020 superhero film *Project Power* opposite Jamie Foxx. In 2021, he co-starred with Bruce Willis and Megan Fox in the crime thriller film *Midnight in the Switchgrass*, in the action western film *The Last Son* with Sam Worthington, and in his own film *Downfalls High* in 2021.

## Early life

He was born on 22 April 1990, in Houston to missionary parents. He and his family moved all around the globe and took up residence abroad from Egypt to Germany, as well as throughout the United States, in Chicago, Denver, and Cleveland. He settled in Denver, along with his father, after his mother had left home, and the pair moved in with his Aunt. Following his father suffering from depression and unemployment, he endured bullying from other children in the neighborhood. He started listening to rap in the sixth grade, when he attended Hamilton Middle School, a school with an ethnically diverse student body in Denver, Colorado. The first three rappers that got him into the genre of hip hop as a child were Ludacris, Eminem and DMX, with Baker gaining interest in the genre after listening to DMX's "We Right Here" from the album *The Great Depression*.

Following his father's departure, Baker stopped attending school and began to make a name for himself by calling out elder classmates. In 2005, his father returned to take them both to Kuwait before the pair were forced back stateside to Cleveland, where Baker attended Shaker Heights High School. While attending Shaker Heights High, he convinced a local t-shirt shop owner to become his manager, as the shop owner would double as an MC manager.

In March 2009, while he was on the verge of getting evicted, Baker traveled to Harlem's Apollo Theater, where he had consecutive victories, making him the first ever rapper to win at the Apollo Theater. He recorded music in his home studio which he refers to as the "Rage Cage", and started to gain exposure when he was featured on MTV2's Sucker Free Freestyle, where he freestyled numerous verses from his *"Chip off the Block"* single. In February 2010, he released his second mixtape *100 Words and Running*, where he derived his catchphrase, "Lace Up", which started as a mixtape interlude, before making it a prominent reference in his music. Despite his rising popularity, Baker found himself working at Chipotle Mexican Grill to afford rent, as well as being kicked out by his father after graduating high school. He soon also became a father to Casie Colson Baker.

## Career

### 2009 – 2012: *Record deal and Lace Up*

In May 2010, he made his national debut with the single *"Alice in Wonderland"*, which was released on iTunes and accompanied a music video along with the song. It was released via Block Starz Music. The single earned MGK the "Best Midwest Artist" at the 2010 Underground Music Awards and his *"Alice in Wonderland"* video won Best Music Video at the 2010 Ohio Hip-Hop Awards. He released his second mixtape in November 2010 titled *Lace Up* which featured the hometown anthem *"Cleveland"*, which was then played at Cleveland Cavaliers home games and went on rotation on Z107.9 in Cleveland. The mixtape was recorded in three months in 2010 during a creative burst. Following the release of the mixtape, he was featured in the magazine *XXL* in 2011. He then appeared on Juicy J's *"Inhale"*, which also featured Steve-O from the television series *Jackass*, in the music video.

In March 2011, MGK participated in his first SXSW show in Austin, Texas, and at the show, he was approached by Sean Combs, who had offered MGK a recording contract with Bad Boy Records, which is associated with and has its content distributed by Interscope. Prior to the contract, he was featured on XV's *"Finally Home"*. After signing for Bad Boy Records, MGK released the music video for the song *"Wild Boy"*, which featured Waka Flocka Flame and was produced by GB Hitz. The duo appeared on BET's *106 & Park* to promote the single. In mid-2011, MGK signed a deal with Young and Reckless Clothing. His first EP *Half Naked & Almost Famous* released on 20 March 2012, and debuted at 46 on the *Billboard 200* with 8,500 copies sold in its first week.*[source needed!]* As of August 2012, it sold 36,500 copies.*[source needed!]*

MGK announced that his debut album would be titled *Lace Up*, and would have an intended release on October 9, 2012. "Wild Boy" served as the lead single for the album and the song peaked on the US *Billboard Hot 100* at number 98. It was soon certified gold by the RIAA *(Recording Industry Association of America)*. The song *"Invincible"* was released on iTunes on 16 December 2011, featuring co-writer and singer Ester Dean, as the second single of the album. The song is featured in a commercial for the HTC ReZound as well as the official theme song of WrestleMania XXVIII. WWE also used the song to highlight John Cena in his match with at the event, with MGK also performing at WrestleMania prior to the main event. *"Invincible"* is also currently the theme for Thursday Night Football on the NFL network. WWE also used the song *"All We Have"* to again highlight Cena on his rematch with The Rock at the next year's event. On 14 December 2011, MGK was named the *Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2011* by MTV. On 18 March 2012, MGK won the MTVu Breaking Woodie award before being featured on the cover of *XXL* as part of their annual "Top 10 Freshmen list" On August 13, 2012, MGK self-released a mixtape titled *EST 4 Life*, which contained both old and recently recorded material.

*Lace Up* was released on 9 October 2012. It debuted at number 4 on the US *Billboard 200*, with first-week sales of 57,000 copies. It slid down to 22 in its second week, giving it a total of 65,000 copies sold.*[source needed!]* As of September 2015, the album has sold 263,000 copies.

### 2012 – 2013: *Black Flag*

In early 2012, MGK announced that he would be releasing a new mixtape. Pusha T and Meek Mill were the first artists to be featured on the mixtape, both appearing on the track *"Pe$o"*. MGK also announced that Wiz Khalifa will be featured on the mixtape. On 18 February 2013, MGK announced the name of the mixtape as *Black Flag* and revealed the cover. He also released a music video for *"Champions"* which features Diddy and samples The Diplomats song *"We are the Champions"*, as the music video release served as a promotional video for *Black Flag*. On 26 June, he released *Black Flag* without prior announcement. The mixtape also featured guest appearances from French Montana, Kellin Quinn, Dub-O, Sean McGee and Tezo. On 4 June 2013, MGK posted a picture of a letter on his social media accounts which read: *"This project is dedicated to love, because for my entire life it has been taken from me. Granted, when it was given, I pushed it right back. I couldn't handle it. This was until I experienced the loss of love for what I love doing most: music. That was the one thing worth fighting for, even more-so then[sic] the love of my father. I've found that love again. And I plan on never surrendering it. Find what you love and fight!! Black Flag."*

### 2014 – 2016: *General Admission*

Following the release of *Black Flag*, rumors surfaced that he had begun working on his second studio album. In January 2014, he confirmed that he was in the early stages of working on the album, with 2015 being the scheduled year of release. On 5 January 2015, he released the song *"Till I Die"*, which was accompanied with a music video on his VEVO account. Months later, a remix of *"Till I Die"* with hometown fellow hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony was confirmed and released on 5 June 2015. The song aired via WorldStarHipHop and featured French Montana, Yo Gotti, and Ray Cash. On 18 May 2015, the music video for another song titled *"A Little More"* was released, with the single featuring vocals from Victoria Monet. MGK soon had an interview with MTV, describing the reason as to why he wrote *"A Little More"*. Stating in the interview: *"People always came up to me after the first album and a lot of my friends back home said 'we need something for the streets' and then I did "Till I Die". Months later, when I look back at the video [for Till I Die] I [was] like 'Okay, he's in jail, he's shot, he's dead, he snitched' and just to the point where it's sad and I wrote the song to describe how I see the world as a much mature person."* He also updated the status on his second studio album, it noted that the album was finished, and stated that the album would contain *"more lyricism and [would be more] stylistically [influenced by] hip-hop but musically, sonically [would contain] more live instrumentation."*

Following MGK's previous affiliation with the company, he made a return to *WWE Raw* on the 15 June 2015. The show was hosted in MGK's home town of Cleveland and MGK appeared as a guest on the show, performing *"Till I Die"* and *"A Little More"*. As he finished performing, he was attacked and power-bombed through the stage by WWE wrestler Kevin Owens in a storyline. The attack was due to MGK's previous connection with Owens' rival, John Cena. MGK soon announced a national tour to begin in the summer of 2015, touring throughout the United States from early July to the beginning of September, with 31 planned dates throughout the course of the two months.

On 25 June, MGK released the title of his second album as *General Admission*, due to be released in late September 2015. On 23 July 2015, MGK released *Fuck It* a 10-track mixtape containing songs that didn't make the final track list of the album. The mixtape was reportedly released by MGK independently following Bad Boy Records consistently delaying the release of the album. On 10 September 2015, MGK announced the release date and the album art, stating that the album would be released on 16 October of that year. The album was released on the planned date, and debuted at number four on *Billboard 200*, powered by first week sales 56,000 album-equivalent units; it sold 49,000 copies in its first week, with the remainder of its unit total reflecting the album's streaming activity and track sales. The album also debuted at number 1 on *Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums*.

### 2016 – 2019: *Bloom*

In February 2016, MGK appeared at Fastlane, which was hosted at the Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.

MGK released *"Bad Things"* in late 2016, a joint single with Camila Cabello, which reached a peak of number 4 on US *Billboard Hot 100*.

MGK was going to be the opening act on the North American leg of Linkin Park's One More Light Tour before the tour was cancelled due to Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington's suicide. He would subsequently pay tribute to Bennington by releasing an acoustic cover of the Linkin Park song *"Numb"*.

On 3 September 2018, MGK released the song *"Rap Devil"*. It was a response to Eminem's diss track *"Not Alike"* off of his album *Kamikaze*. Playing on Eminem's own *"Rap God"* single, the track accuses Eminem of trying to sideline MGK's career after a comment MGK made in 2012 about Eminem's teenage daughter, Hailie. MGK publicly stated on his Twitter account that on the response track he was *"standing up for not just myself, but my generation. [I'm] doing the same shit you did back in your day."* *"Rap Devil"* topped the iTunes Chart on 10 September 2018. On 14 September, Eminem responded to *"Rap Devil"* with another diss track, *"Killshot"*.

On 21 September 2018, MGK released the EP *Binge*, which had first week sales of 21,519 units.*[source needed!]*

### 2019 — 2020: *Tickets To My Downfall*

After the success of *"I Think I'm OKAY"*, Baker wanted to explore rock music further, he worked work with Travis Barker, to record what would become the song *"Bloody Valentine"*. The session was so powerful to Baker that he asked Barker to set aside two months for them to collaborate on an entire studio album. For much of the rest of the year, Baker would refer to the album as "the untitled pop punk project". Along with Baker on vocals and guitar, the entire album would feature Barker on drums and as a producer. Prior to recording the album, Baker expressed a wish for the album to include features such as Bert McCracken of The Used and Chris Fronzak from Attila. The album went on to feature collaborations with Halsey, blackbear, Trippie Redd and Iann Dior as well as McCracken and Harrison on *"Body Bag"* from the album's deluxe edition. *"body bag"*, features heavy similarities to Fall Out Boy's 2005 single *"Dance, Dance"*, which required clearance from the band for use, which was given by Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump just a day prior to its release.

The album was originally expected to release in early 2020 after Baker's repeated teasers in late 2019 and early 2020. However, the COVID-19 pandemic would delay album release plans. The album's first formal single, *"Bloody Valentine"* was released on 1 May 2020. On 7 September, the album's tracklist and cover art were released. However, later in the day, another artist found the artwork to be almost an exact copy of theirs - a sketch of a man falling down - unbeknownst to Baker, a hired designer heavily modeled it after the artists work and the artist had not given out any rights to use it, Baker apologized and announce that a new album cover would be created: *"Found out that the album cover I released was essentially copied from a photo we do not own, I didn't make this design so I apologize to the original artist. I'm in the process of replacing it right now."*. He later noted he had signed thousands of copies of the album with the old album artwork. The album was released on 25 September 2020 and a livestream of a live performance of the entire album was performed on 1 October 2020.

On 29 September, a deluxe edition of the album entitled the "Sold Out" edition, was released, featuring four new songs including an acoustic rendition of *"Bloody Valentine"*. Concurrently, a music video for the track *"Drunk Face"* was released. A music video for *Forgot Me Too* was released 22 October. Throughout October, four episodes of *Halloween in Hell*, a fictionalised musical horror podcast that Baker created and starred in, were released. The podcast was accompanied by the album Audio Up presents: Original Music from Halloween In Hell a soundtrack performed collaboratively by all the actors involved, and written and composed by Jared Gutstadt. On 22 November, Baker announced that his album would be turned into a musical film experience to be released January 2021. On 30 November, YUNGBLUD announced that their collaboration *"acting like that"* would be surprise released. In January 2021, Downfalls High was released to Facebook. On 12 March 2021, he released the single *"DayWalker"* featuring Corpse Husband.

### 2021 - present: *Mainstream Sellout*

On 29 April, he released the single *"Love Race"* featuring Kellin Quinn, the pair's third collaboration. On 9 August, he announced that his next album would be titled *Born with Horns*, whilst simultaneously getting matching tattoos of the album name with Travis Barker, it would be another collaborative project with Barker. The first single from the album, *"Papercuts"*, was released on 12 August. The accompanying music video was directed by Cole Bennett. On 30 January 2022, he posted a preview of a collaboration with singer WILLOW, previewed as *"Cherry Red Lipstick"*, the song was released 4 February as *"Emo Girl"*. On 26 August, it was announced that he would star in and co-direct the film *Good Mourning*, alongside Mod Sun, Dove Cameron, Megan Fox and Becky G. On 5 February 2022, Baker performed during the 2022 NHL All-Star Game halftime show in Las Vegas. On 31 January, Kelly announced that the album had been retitled to *Mainstream Sellout*.

## Collaborations with YUNGBLUD

### *I Think I'm OKAY*

On 25 May 2020, Machine Gun Kelly, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker released a Alternative Rock collaboration through Bad Boy Records (Machine Gun Kelly's label) and Interscope Records, and premiered on Zane Lowe's World Record. The song has Machine Gun Kelly as the primary artist, who is a primarily rap artist. Along with YUNGBLUD, a primarily alternative rock artist, and Travis Baker, a drummer for Blink-182, as secondary artists. The song was later added onto Machine Gun Kelly's fourth studio album *Hotel Diablo*. YUNGBLUD provides his vocals and Travis Barker provides the drums for track. The song is about understanding that you mess up a lot and go outside of the normal behaviour society expects of you, taking a situation or a relationship that is good and then turning it into a bad one just by touching it, they both acknowledge a devastating and depressing thought that society makes you think when you are not perceived as quote-on-quote *normal*: *"somethings fucking wrong with me"*.

### *body bag*

On 27 March 2020, in an MTV News interview, Machine Gun Kelly revealed that himself, Dom and Travis Barker have a song called Body Bag but wasn’t sure when they would be coming out. Much later in the year Machine Gun Kelly revealed that Bert McCracken was also on the song. Months after that he revealed that he would be releasing the track list and artwork for the album the next day and let fans know that the song he talked about with Dom and The Used was being saved for something special later, and told his fans to trust the process. Dom replied to Machine Gun Kelly’s tweet saying that they promise it will be worth it. On 29 September 2020, MGK told a fan over zoom that the song with Dom and The Used would be coming out the next day. On 30 September 2020, Machine Gun Kelly dropped the deluxe version of his fifth studio album *Tickets To My Downfall*, produced by Travis Barker. On the track list, a collaboration between himself, YUNGBLUD and Bert McCracken from The Used was revealed to be on it.

### *acting like that*

* *Before release:* Baker has stated that himself and Harrison have written multiple songs together, one of which was played at a celebration party where both artists were celebrating the platinum certification of *"I Think I'm OKAY"*, they stated that they had wrote the song the night before and played a part of the song twice the same night in December 2019 for fans; once while at The Roxy partying and a second time outside of the building in a car before they were driven away. Fans had given the song a placeholder of *"Acting Like That"* due to those words seeming like the most prominent lyrics in the song.

In November 2020, Travis Barker posted to his story a picture of a whiteboard with the original track list of Tickets To My Downfall *(Machine Gun Kelly's sixth studio album)*, fans noticed it included "acting like that" with YUNGBLUD as a feature, it was seemingly planned to be the sixth track on the standard edition, however that was swapped out for "all i know" featuring Trippie Redd and "acting like that" was completely removed from the standard edition and was not added to the deluxe edition, which caused confusion. On 30 November 2020, YUNGBLUD announced through social media that himself and Baker had decided to surprise drop the song. The song was released 2 December 2020 at midnight. Instead of YUNGBLUD being a feature he was now listed as the main artist and Machine Gun Kelly was listed as the feature on the song, and instead of it being included in a Machine Gun Kelly album, it was added last minute to Harrison's sophomore album, *weird!*.

As there was no plan to put it on the album originally and it was a just-for-fun-surprise-drop, two days before album release, it did not make it to being recorded onto physical copies of the album and is only available on digital services. Apple Music currently has two versions of the album available, a version without the song and a version with it.

## Credits

*Credits obtained from TIDAL*

* *"I Think I'm OKAY"* - lyricist, producer, composer, vocalist
* *"body bag"* - composer, lyricist, vocalist
* *"acting like that"* - composer, lyricist, vocalist

## Discography

### Studio Albums

* Lace Up (2012)
* General Admission (2015)
* Bloom (2017)
* Hotel Diablo (2019)
* Tickets to My Downfall (2020)
* Mainstream Sellout (2022)

### EPs

* Half Naked & Almost Famous (2012)
* Binge (2018)
* Lockdown Sessions (2022)

### Mixtapes

* Stamp of Approval Prelude (2006)
* Stamp of Approval (2007)
* Certified (2008)
* Homecoming (2009)
* 100 Words and Running (2010)
* The Differenter Gang (2010)
* Lace Up (2010)
* Rage Pack (2011)
* EST 4 Life (2012)
* Black Flag (2013)
* Fuck It (2015)

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35. ↑ blond don (@machinegunkelly) on Twitter — "yoooooo thanks to @petewentz + @PatrickStump for the last minute clearance on “body bag” !!!!! “Dance, Dance” was a big inspiration for our record and the fact they picked up the phone last night and said YES is punk as fuck" Posted 30 September 2020.
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59. ↑ Blonde Don on Twitter: "releasing album cover and track list tomorrow #TicketsToMyDownfall" (2 October 2020)
60. ↑ Blond Don on Twitter: "the songs with me and @yungblud and the song with The Used aren’t on this release because they are for something special coming after trust the process on that decision 😈🙏🏼" (2nd October 2020)
61. ↑  YUNGBLUD on Twitter: "we promise it will be worth it 😘" (2 October 2020)
62. ↑ fleur 👽 on Twitter: "NEW MUSIC DROPS IN A FEW HOURS HELP YUNGBLUD SONG RJDBDNSNSKS" (Retrieved 7 October 2020)
63. ↑ tessa on Instagram: "your way too hot to be acting like that —" (Retrieved 5 October 2020)
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