Colson Baker, better known by stage name Machine Gun Kelly (often abbreviated to MGK), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He was born on April 22, 1990 in Houston, Texas. Baker moved around the world a lot as a child. What’s worse, his mother left the family and his father was struggling to stay employed, so he had to deal with a lot of financial difficulties growing up. To cope with the situation, he emerged himself into hip hop music. His early influences were Eminem and Ludacris, but especially DMX and his 2001 album “The Great Depression”.
At age 19, he decided to take his passion for hip hop to the next level. He started competing in freestyle rap battles, winning two of them at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem. He was also featured briefly on MTV2’s show Sucker Free Freestyle. In the meantime, he started producing mixtapes in his home studio.
In May 2010, the independent record label Block Starz Music released his debut single, "Alice in Wonderland". The positive reaction allowed him to release his debut studio album, “Lace Up”, in October 2012. The album was a hit, peaking at the #4 spot on the Billboard 200 list. Later that year, he went on his first nationwide Machine Gun Kelly concert tour called the "Hostile Takeover Tour".
Since then, he has put out 4 more studio albums, thus he has 5 in total. The best selling remained his first, “Lace Up” with 283,000 copies sold in the US. For his new Machine Gun Kelly album, “Mainstream Sellout” from March 2022, he decided to completely change up his style. Instead of hip hop, he put out a punk rock record.
MGK’s biggest hits to date are “Wild Boy” (2012), “Mind of a Stoner” (2013) featuring Wiz Khalifa, and “Bad Things” (2017) featuring Camila Cabello.
Machine Gun Kelly received a lot of media attention in September 2018 for his highly publicized feud with Eminem. While Eminem was one of MGK’s early influences, the two got into a fight after Eminem put out the track “Not Alike” in 2018, dissing MGK. Speculation is he did so because of comments Kelly had made about his teenage daughter 6 years prior. Kelly responded with his own song trashing Eminem, “Rap Devil” (an allusion to Slim Shady’s 2013 hit song “Rap God”). The most successful diss track to come out of this feud was Eminem’s “Killshot”, released in September 2018.
Kelly has also appeared in a number of films and TV shows as an actor, including the Showtime series “Roadies” (2016), the Tommy Lee biopic “The Dirt” (2019), and “The King of Staten Island” (2020). Check where the next Machine Gun Kelly concert is playing on the page above.
Top 10 most played songs by Machine Gun Kelly in the last 40 concerts.
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my ex's best friend
31
I Think I'm OKAY
31
drunk face
31
bloody valentine
31
forget me too
30
papercuts
29
maybe
28
Floor 13
24
ay!
23
make up sex
23
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Song title
Listen
Popularity
Buy
papercuts
PRESSURE
maybe
concert for aliens
F*CK YOU, GOODBYE
drunk face
I Think I'm OKAY
kiss kiss
Candy
emo girl
ay!
bloody valentine
Floor 13
5150
forget me too
title track
make up sex
my ex's best friend
more than life
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