Ladies and gents if you don’t know who Machine Gun Kelly is then let me be the first to introduce you to MGK!
Born Colson Baker, this 21 year old is the first hip-hop artist to EVER win the Apollo amateur competition. Don’t let s crazy stage name fool you–This Cleveland native is no thug wanna-be rapper with a name derived from delusional gangster glory. The Machine Gun part of his stage names from the kids uncanny rapid-fire delivery he spits when he rocks the mic.
The quick tongued MC is said to be able to flow as quick as Twista, and has been credited for creating deep and meaningful tracks likes fellow Cleveland group Bone Thugs N Harmony. After breaking through with his 2010 mixtape Lace Up, MGK caught hip-hop’s attention. His popularity began to grow so much that the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers began to play his hometown ode “Cleveland” at home games during the 2010-2011 basketball season. On the upbeat “Stereo,” MGK raps metaphorically about his love affair with music and his stereo.
Last month Diddy announced that he signed MGK on “RapFix Live,” and while Kelly doesn’t exactly fit the Bad Boy rapper mold set by the likes of the Notorious B.I.G., Mase and the LOX, Combs insisted that he doesn’t want the youngster to change a thing. Diddy stated “He will not be changing for Bad Boy; he will not have a typical Bad Boy swag,” He’s not going to be popping champagne or driving around in Bentleys. He’s gonna be him and true to himself. He has a lot of creative control in his project, he added in an interview with MTV.
Machine Gun Kelly feels that his music is the kind that motivates kids, and he thinks he makes music for the uncool. No matter where, no matter hat giant leaps I take in my career I just want maintain that message that I’ve always had–Which is you can do whatever you want. And I don’t really ever plan on making music for the cool people, or even really fitting in with that type of crowd, he states. In an interview with Hip Hop Weekly Machine Gun Kelly says I don’t rock chains and I don’t do that other shit–I don’t like to look better than my fans.
MGK is definitely putting Ohio on the map, and the energy that this kid has is ill, and we will definitely be seeing a lot more of him as we go into the new year!
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