Machine Gun Kelly will be back to rap for the next album.
Machine Gun Kelly recently dropped another rock album “Mainstream Sellout“, a follow up to his previous one “Tickets to My Downfall“, but now the Cleveland artist will be going back to hip-hop for the next project.
“I’m going to make a rap album for myself,” said MGK in an interview with Audacy Check-In. “For no other reason, no point to prove, no chip on my shoulder.”
He continued, “If I keep doing things to prove things to people, I’m going to one, drive myself crazy and two, not make a good product. I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout because I wanted to make them. I need to now also make people miss that sound.”
“I’m going to do this tour and I’m gonna step into where I left Hotel Diablo and 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.”
In a previous interview, Kelly revealed that his beef with Eminem made him switch genres, “Hotel Diablo [Album] is that for me because that was the first time I really expressed my true self with no outside influence, meaning the label. As a hip-hop album, it’s flawless front to back, and also a hint at the evolution of how I went into a pop-punk album. But it was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef [with Eminem]. So no one wanted to give it the time of day. It’s like if you make a shi*ty movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed. The next album came from already feeling like I’d counted out, so I didn’t even care what the public was going to think. That’s why the project was ironically my best-received one because it was the most effortless, with the least outside influence.”
His departure from his present genre may irritate supporters who identify with the second MGK faction – the one that adores his punk rocker character. Mick Jagger, for example, recently stated that Baker and English musician Yungblud have a “sort of post-punk sound” that “makes me hope there is still a little of life in rock ‘n’ roll.” However, as the “Emo Girl” singer pointed out, even his rap albums had a punk-rock edge to them.
So MGK finally accepted that his rap career is over and he switched genres because of Eminem. The beef cost him his career. pic.twitter.com/gmGGgXD8y0
— EMINEM (@Eminem_Posts__) December 1, 2020
