oh snap MGK daughter is about to be born I'm going to the labor room right now
yes it is me behind this mask I'm looking like Grey's Anatomy right now
I'm about to deliver my first time before Machine Gun Kelly would confirm
his new relationship status with actress Megan Fox in an Instagram story
featuring love and sushi before Machine Gun Kelly would join protesters on the
streets of LA to stand against the death of George Floyd I could type this out
but I wanted you to see my face when I say this if you look like me and you
have racism in your heart and on your mind and coming out your mouth you I'm
ashamed of you if you enjoy my music or you like my movies I don't want you
watching I don't want your business you I don't want nothing that's a part of
the evil agenda and that's not what our generations legacy is gonna be before
Machine Gun Kelly would find a role in Judd Apatow zhh newest film the king of
Staten Island thanks to his close personal friendship with Pete Davidson
before Machine Gun Kelly would engage in a historic rap battle feud with his
former idol Eminem no just a couple of years ago a lot of people they would
have counted Machine Gun Kelly is on the way out now he got in the industry as
the old guard they were losing their grasps through the internet and there
was a whole flock of new up-and-coming rappers who were making big moves via
soundcloud knowing his rap devil diss track he picked the side as a mumble
rapper of this new generation and he's also bagged a few high-profile baddies
which reminds us that he is enjoying the perks of his newfound fame even if it's
the second time taste in it yes yes it's - oh ha ha
from his humble beginnings in Cleveland to selling out venues across the United
States and creating four top-ten billboard albums
well MGK he has blazed a path for himself in the world of hip-hop but he's
always worn his rock influenced right on his sleeve now his live shows they often
feels more like rock shows than a hip-hop show case with obligatory mosh
pits and a full band performing on stage noe even recently portrayed drummer
Tommy Lee in the Netflix film the dirt about rock band Motley Crue do you know
any other rappers with alternative music street cred like that I sure don't how
did a man who was battling a drug addiction by the age of
20 with a dented job or get Chipotle also a child on the way managed to find
himself about to reinvent the entire genre of music well in this video you're
gonna find out what's going on guys it's boy Michael Cretu back at it again
documenting the life and career of Machine Gun Kelly in an updated video
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Machine Gun Kelly was born Richard Colson Barker on April 22nd 1990 in
Houston Texas now his parents they were living in Texas as missionaries but they
didn't stay there long he spent much of his early childhood in places like Egypt
and Germany and apparently he learned how to speak Arabic before he ever
learned how to speak English who would have thunk it I grew up in Egypt till I
was five or six years old Egypt in Kenya and then uh Germany for a
bit then I came to the United States and was apparently speaking Arabic to
everybody no eventually his parents they moved back stateside first to Chicago
before finally settling in Denver Colorado now for a short period of time
while Kelley he experienced the pretty typical childhood but that wouldn't last
long that was mom she was unhappy with his
family's lifestyle and met another man taking off with him when Kelley was just
nine years old there from that point on the relationship it became extremely
strained and he told the New York Post earlier this year
there's few memories to even burn in the first place because she left when I was
so young but the ones that are there I've numbed those parts out of me I'm
obviously an avid LSD user I don't think it's a secret
no Kelly's father he didn't handle the split Wow he fell into a depression and
he was soon out of work my parents will go away before a middle school my
parents go when I was like nine you know I'm saying I was a I was some tough shit
it affected my father and therefore led to the rack of raising that I probably
needed but I was what I needed though I needed to raise myself and I needed to
have the world beat me up and spit me back out so I could be I mean it Stood
Still it's still beating me up and throwing me right back out dude I just I
mean we're still just getting so much negative and I'm just trying to live my
life so positive Kelly or Coulson and his father they moved into his aunts
basement and Kelly well he faced bullying on a daily basis while he
attended Hamilton middle school now his father was a black hole of misery and
Kelly he took to music to find solace now he started listening to rappers like
Ludacris Eminem and max to inject some energy and
vivaciousness into his life that was influential as rap was to him at this
early age well he was also a huge fan of alternative rock acts like blink 182
Guns & Roses and Rage Against the Machine despite finding an outlet for
his angst in music well Kelly continued to be bullied well at the high school
where he attended Thomas Jefferson High but it was Kelly who would one day have
the very last laugh you know what man I say take all the
strides shrug it off the cool fall off quickly like those they let them peek
man let them Pete that's that's what I say let them think that way you can look
back at them like you know what I think you look at me dude I can't wait to go
to my tenure and graduate what is it reunion yeah brah I'm in there like this
everybody and I really owe ya you know nothing but these two middle fingers
I'll tell you what people used to take my raps and crunch them up and throw
them on the ground I used to get made fun of all the time because who believes
that the guy sitting next in a math class is gonna blow up to become a
superstar you don't write that right but like you
should know at this point Kelly he started acting out and he would have
some run-ins with the law now things started off simply enough
with him stealing CD players when he was only 14 but they quickly escalated with
Kelly when he found himself catching charges for an unspecified crime now
around this time his father he left for missionary work in Kuwait and Kelly will
here to take care of himself
there's no one here be sad considering everything that was going on
in his life it's probably not much of a surprise to find out that Kelly soon
enough found himself experimenting with drugs the reality of situations is you
can't as a world expect to break people down constantly and not expect them to
want some type of escape alright I don't have a mom I can call I don't have a
father I can call I don't have my you know I'm saying like my like my aunt who
was the last thing that I had is gone but on the plus side he also started
creating music that was first amateur demo tape was stamp of approval in 2006
which he recorded in his basement as soon after his father returned home in
the two they were on the move once again this time to Cleveland Ohio where Kelly
he enrolled at Shaker Heights school this is actually the same school kid
Kelly was enrolled now the two they would eventually find themselves wrapped
up in a small beef with a demo tape and head he began taking his music career
seriously and spread his work all around the school that's when he earned himself
the moniker Machine Gun Kelly due to his rapid-fire delivery of lyrics
just like that he was making a name for himself amongst fans a hip off all over
Ohio Kelly graduated from high school but
soon after another wrinkle popped up in his life now his daddy kicked him out so
he had to find a job to support himself enter Chipotle no Kelly he considered
himself there to be a man of the people always making sure everyone got double
helpings when building burritos people always was like dude let me get double
chicken for single chicken price and I was like homie we can do this all day
like well how much do you tell me when to stop I didn't care well trying to
juggle his job in his blossoming musical career while Kelly found out that he was
also soon gonna be a father a problem that was further compounded by his
addiction to heroin and his constant living on the brink of homelessness
there was the dictionary with last for a couple years but he was eventually able
to kick the bad habit with the help of rehab and counseling now after taking
control of his demons more success was just around the corner
he was then featured on MTV to Sucker Free freestyle that landed him
on the national scene May 2010 he made his debut single Alice in Wonderland
releasing the track on iTunes now he released lace up the mixtape in November
of that year and he started to develop his on-camera persona with a youtube
channel that created this series of locks
yeah how loud people find these here you go so we've been working hard all day
got the studio going this what Kelly vision would be this is as he said where
the Kelly vision mixtape will be recorded that you know we got to got the
mic going we got right here we got a little thing for your head 2011 e-sign
with Sean Combs and Bad Boy Records releasing half naked and almost famous
which made all the way to number 46 on the Billboard 200 now he found even more
success with his follow-up album lace up which dropped in October of 2012 and
reached number four on the Billboard 200 now that same year he was selected for
the double XL freshmen list alongside the likes of French Montana Macklemore
Iggy Azalea and future what a different time hip hop was back then my god what
year is it but it was his feud he'd find himself in with one of his idols to
Eminem that really got his name out there now after firing off a less than
well-thought-out tweet that drew attention to how attractive he thought
Eminem's then 16-year old daughter was well he was immediately on slim shady
shit list oh no the two started taking shots at
one another back and forth there were diss tracks like rap devil and kill shot
they were falling back and forth and essentially Kelly he accused em of
trying to kill his career by preventing his music from getting airtime on radio
stations most notably shade 45
perhaps looking to hedge his bets well Kelly he started getting involved with
acting in 2014 he landed his first gig on Cameron Crowe's series roadies along
with lead roles in films like viral and nerve by 2015 his musical career was
back on track with the release of general admission which debuted at
number four on the Billboard 200 in 2017 he released his third album gloom which
debuted at number 8 and finally in 2019 he released Hotel Diablo that made its
way all the way to the number 5 spot on Billboard know after spending years
working his ass off to climb up the hip-hop ladder well Kelly has
undisputedly made it which makes his decision to switch on rows all the more
curious you know what I mean like now he's more of a rock guy than a rap guy
but he thinks that's the wave of the future and by the looks of things he
might be right they say you know trends they only last so long and we've been
living in a decade of hip-hop so it's gonna be interesting to see huh if I had
to place some bets I think we're gonna be doing more rock stars in the coming
years just gonna say whiskey and go-go is gonna be back in business
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