Machine Gun Kelly
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Machine Gun Kelly

Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker in Cleveland in 1990, started with underground rap battles before his 2012 debut mixtape 'Lace Up' brought wider...

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Machine Gun Kelly's shift from rap battles to pop-punk

A Cleveland rapper who found his lane with Travis Barker's guitar-driven production.

For the rap side, check out 'Wild Boy Remix' with all those features. For the newer sound, 'more than life' with glaive gives you a good sense of where he's at now.

He's one of those artists who actually pulled off the hip-hop to pop-punk pivot without it feeling like a gimmick. The 2020 album 'Tickets to My Downfall' with Barker gave him a whole new sound, and songs like 'more than life' with glaive show he's still mixing it up. That early mixtape 'Lace Up' got him noticed, but it's the later stuff that made people pay attention.

He started with underground rap battles in Cleveland before 'Lace Up' brought wider attention in 2012. The albums moved from hip-hop on 'General Admission' to the pop-rock of 'Tickets to My Downfall' and 'Mainstream Sellout', with Travis Barker's production shaping that shift.

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Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker in Cleveland in 1990, started with underground rap battles before his 2012 debut mixtape 'Lace Up' brought wider attention. He's known for shifting between hip-hop and pop-punk, with songs like 'Bad Things' featuring Camila Cabello reaching mainstream pop audiences and 'my ex's best friend' with blackbear showing his pop-rock side.

His work often involves producer and drummer Travis Barker, who helped shape the guitar-driven sound on albums like 2020's 'Tickets to My Downfall'. Other collaborators have included Yungblud and glaive, as on the track 'more than life'.

MGK has released several studio albums, from the early hip-hop focus of 'General Admission' to the more recent 'Mainstream Sellout'.

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The Start here section opens with more than life (feat. glaive), Wild Boy Remix (feat. 2-Chainz, Meek Mill, Mystikal, French Montana & Yo Gotti), and Against The Word so you can move through the artist's stronger lyric pages first.

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