Machine Gun Kelly.Photo: Dia Dipasupil/WireImage
Machine Gun Kellyis considering a break from the genre that brought him into the mainstream.
In a new interview with theAudacy Check In podcast, the 32-year-old rapper-turned-pop-punker revealed he’d like to return to hip-hop for his next album, the follow-up to rock-orientedMainstream Sellout, which topped theBillboard200 earlier this year.
“I’m going to make a rap album for myself. For no other reason, no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder,” the musician born Colson Baker told host Kevan Kenney. “If I keep doing things to prove things to people, I’m going to one, drive myself crazy, and two, not make a great product.”
MGK’s about toembark on a world tourin support ofMainstream Selloutwith special guestsAvril Lavigne,WILLOW,blackbear,Travis Barker, Iann Dior, Pvris, Trippie Redd, and 44phantom. Once the concerts wrap in October, the “I Think I’m Okay” performer says he’ll shift his focus back to rapping — partially to make his fans want more punk music.
“I made [2020’s]Tickets[to My Downfall] andMainstream Selloutbecause I wanted to make them. I need to now also make people miss that sound,” continued MGK. “I’m going to do this tour, and I’m going to step into where I left with [2019’s]Hotel Diabloand expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new innovative sound for the hip-hop Machine Gun Kelly.”
“That’s where my excitement is and where me as a music archaeologist wants to explore,” he concluded on the topic.
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“I read tarot cards and I’m into astrology and I’m doing all these metaphysical practices and meditations,” said the 35-year-oldTill Deathactress. “I do rituals on new moons and full moons, and all these things. And so, when I do it, it’s a passage or it is used for a reason. And it is controlled where it’s like, ‘Let’s shed a few drops of blood and each drink it.'”
source: people.com
