- When I saw the movie,
I definitely looked at Pete and I was like,
"How did you pull this off?
"Like I was there with you, you idiot,
"like, there's no way."
He's so good, he was so good.
But it's insane 'cause I also knew
what we were just up to, while we were filming it.
Which was like, there was no emphasis on work,
it was just kinda like, fun.
I don't know how the film ended up so good.
It's like, I feel like when we were there,
we were all like,
"OK, this movie's probably never coming out."
- Hey, Momo, come here doggy.
- [Monroe] Yo, what's up?
- Lemme talk to you, man. - Thank you.
- You know I'm the last one to judge you, right?
- Yeah, of course.
- Okay, well as your boy, I gotta tell you.
You're acting real silly right now, all right?
That chick is like 16 years old.
Shame on you.
- Nick, I'm 16.
- Exactly.
What?
- I definitely related
to what Mo was going through growing up.
The first time I ever got arrested was at 13,
because of somebody else kind of pressuring me
into being like, "This is what we should do.
"Like, how else are we gonna do it, right?"
And I'm just like, "Yeah."
I had to take the blame and everything,
It was just gnarly.
- [Producer] Are you the one who's always
being the voice of reason in your friend group?
- Absolutely not.
I am the reason that those people exist.
For people like me, to be like,
"Wait!
"It's a 20-foot drop!
"You can't even walk straight!
"Get back in the car!
"Go to sleep!"
Yep, that's why I am still walking planet Earth.
Thank you to those guys,
and girls.
'Big Time Adolescence' to me means,
the big slap in the face that is growing up.
I'd say, probably my biggest slap in the face growing up
was like, "Hey, you're 18 years old
"and you got a baby on the way
"and you work at a fast food restaurant
"and your dad is in Africa with no phone
"for years.
"So, good luck figuring this (beep) out."
Not every story ends perfectly,
and I love that this one ended with a slap in the face.
Like, this is life.
It's like, here's the dish.
There's nothing on top of it to block the reality,
you know what I mean?
Life is just a bunch of
scribbles and (beep),
like he says.
To be honest, the reason why I was in this film
was just because Pete looked at me one day on set
when we were filming the Mötley Crüe movie
and was like, "I'm doing this movie I'd like you to be in."
And it started as a cameo.
Like, I was just in one scene very quick.
But when I got to Syracuse, and filmed that scene,
the director was like, "We gotta do more scenes
"with you guys.
"You guys are really funny on camera together."
So, it turned into a little role for me.
The way I've gotten roles in the past
is by doing extensively more than
anyone ever should to get a role,
which is like, you know, getting in a car accident.
And you know, it was my car that got hit
in the middle of the intersection
and I'm just like, "Yeah, I'm late,
"I don't care, it's fine, I'll fix it some other time.
"I just, I gotta go."
He's like, "Don't you want my information?"
I'm like, "No, I don't care, you're good, whatever."
Leave the car, if I get this role,
my whole life will change anyway.
And then that was how I got the Tommy Lee role.
It was my sixth audition
but I couldn't be late,
so I had to ditch the old Range Rover.
Or like, calling Cameron Crowe on Christmas Eve
because I had waited four months to hear back
on if I got the role or not,
and I like, couldn't wait another day,
even though it was Christmas Eve.
Everyone else was like, "This is so unprofessional,
"but you got the role 'cause you're crazy."
I don't think like, nothing's been handed to me,
so it's definitely like, I gotta get it, I gotta get it.
Yeah, Colson Baker is a whole different person
than Machine Gun Kelly to me.
Like, I didn't even know Colson Baker existed
until like, last year.
I like, just started using my name.
People are like, "Oh my God, you have a name?"
I'm like, "Yeah, (beep) I forgot, too.
"My bad."
It trips me out.
And I guess I just wanna show a little bit
of this other person that I like,
kinda just met to the world,
so people don't just think I'm this angry guy.
'Cause I'm not, kind of, sometimes.
I don't know.
Jesus, there's two people going on in here
man, I don't know.
With music, I felt like, for the longest it was
writing everything down on paper
and like, organizing everything,
and like, does this make sense with this?
And I've lately just been going in
and just talking about what just happened last night
or what's going on
and it just resonates so much different
when I play it for people than the stuff that I overthought.
People generally are connected with it
because I'm like, "Oh yeah, I'm just going in there
"and saying how I feel,
"and sometimes you as a human
"is just cooler than you as a person
"who's like adding on all this stuff
"to cover up who you actually are."
I'm working on an album
called 'Tickets To My Downfall' right now
with Travis Barker.
It's full pop punk album.
It's my first project I've ever put out without rapping.
Not that I'm leaving rapping at all,
but this was kind of like a concept album
and I'm like purple devil-y emoji with it right now.
I'm so stoked, I just know what the (beep) it sounds like.
I've actually been on the Sunset Strip
just playing it without people knowing it,
like all the time.
And like, one of my favorite bars that we go to,
which has just a lot of people come through it,
I'll get on and I'll play like,
some Killers real quick,
I'll play like, a Trippie Redd song real quick,
and drop a 'Tickets To My Downfall' song in there
and just watch everybody,
like the groove doesn't lose.
It's almost like everybody is like,
"Oh I'm supposed to know this song,
"this (beep) hard."
They're going hard, "This just sounds and feels so good
"that I must know this song."
- [Producer] Yeah.
- So, why stop dancing?
And it just gets that every time.
But it's been (beep) going off and I'm stoked.
There actually is a decent amount of features.
There's this one that me, YUNGBLUD, and Travis Barker did.
It's called "Body Bag."
We had all kind of been scared to get back in the studio,
cause of "I Think I'm OKAY" and it's like,
can we do a better song than "I Think I'm OKAY?"
And if not, then should we even try?
And then we started "Body Bag,"
and I'm like, "Holy (beep), this song is so sick."
Me and YUNGBLUD got together
to drink some beer after Juice had passed
because we were just like,
"Times are short, like let's..."
It was just a weird day, like, "Let's link up."
And the weirdest night happened,
and we went to the studio the next day
and wrote a song about that
and that felt like a smash, too.
So, me and him already have a couple in the chamber.
So, hopefully one of those will come out
before the album and we'll hear that, yeah.
"Oh, yeah.
"Hello, I'm YUNGBLUD,
"you're watching MTV, aye?"
I called the album 'Tickets To My Downfall'
because I was on a plateau
or kind of a downhill slope at least personally
because I had all these people around me that
were feeding me all types of negativity.
And that's from like physically with drugs,
and that's emotionally with fake friendships
and fake feelings,
that's relationships that literally meant nothing,
and kind of like just running yourself into the ground
and be a burnout.
And that's really scary when you...
I'm the biggest dreamer ever,
like I don't wanna stop, I don't wanna plateau,
like nothing's sadder to me
than the times when you feel like,
"Oh my God, am I cold right now?
"Like does no one care?
"The (beep)?"
'Cause I already grew up without a family,
so like, it was this, whatever this is,
but like, if it's the music
or if it's the few fans that are like,
"You're the reason I live,"
and stuff like that,
that's like all I got.
So, if that's going away, I'm like, what else is there?
Obviously I have my daughter, you know what I mean?
Thank god, but yeah, like it absolutely was
like a period of time where everyone was like,
"Well, count him out, he's a burnout for sure."
You know what I mean?
And that sucks.
I watched all these people
who were just rockin' with me tough like,
kinda be like, "All right, on to the next guy.
"On to the next cool one, until he burns out,
"(beep) kills himself or does whatever,
"falls off, or you know what I mean?
"Finds a religion."
Or whatever, you know what I mean?
I was around people who really didn't give a (beep).
And we've seen it happen a bunch of times
the past year. Rest in peace to the good ones
that we lost, they were our age.
Like, MTV generation,
that's (beep).
Them fools are supposed to live til 80.
And that's, a big part is the company you keep.
So, I mean I know I like, don't take to social media to
vent about realities or what's actually going on
with my life behind the scenes,
but there's a lot of stuff that like,
you're not supposed to--
especially with how heavy I go with stuff.
Like, I go hard.
I never really slowed up.
And I like, always beat it,
so why slow up?
I'm good.
I mean, like, that's what's in your head,
you know what I mean?
You've went around the same curve a bunch of times,
even if you slipped and slid and almost flew off one time,
you're still gonna be like, "Man but I never flew off,
"I'm gonna hit it again."
But, I just had a bunch of people tellin' me
to keep driving fast and (beep),
and I needed someone to be like, "Slow up."
So, that album's really just kind of about
this wild time.
But there's also beautiful times in that,
'cause when you're driving fast,
it's also ecstasy.
You know?
Downfall is not always a bad thing,
it's a fun ride up, for real.
More than anything,
I just want people to listen to this album
and hear me push the norm,
and really be inspired to break out of their box,
and like potentially tap into something that's great.
I'm the most proud of an album that I've ever been.
I don't care what people have to say about,
you know, the genre switch.
Like dude, people can love everything.
And like, very rarely in times
can we have someone do two things well.
And like, I'm just trying to be
one of those people I think.
I don't know, stop being scared of the box.
Unless it's Roddy Ricch,
then put the stick in the box.