Machine Gun Kelly Says He’s Going Back To Rap Music

A couple yrs back, Device Gun Kelly determined to give pop-punk music a test, shying absent from the rap that built him well known. On a professional degree, that turned out to be a terrific strategy, as MGK’s two rock albums, 2020’s Tickets To My Downfall and very last year’s Mainstream Sellout, exactly where his very first kinds to go No. 1 in the US. He’s seemingly not performed with rap nevertheless, even though, as he’s now indicating he needs to get back again to making that style of new music.

In a new Audacy Music interview (as Rap-Up details out), Kelly said of what’s next for him:

“I’m heading to make a rap album for myself, for no other explanation, no issue to verify, no chip on my shoulder. If I retain executing points to prove points to people, I’m likely to a single: drive myself crazy, and two: not make a great products. I made Tickets and Mainstream Sellout simply because I desired to make them. I have to have to now also make people overlook that seem. […] I’m heading to do this tour and I’m gonna move into the place I still left Hotel Diablo and expand on my storytelling as a rapper and find a new impressive audio for the hip-hop Equipment Gun Kelly. That’s in which my exhilaration is and exactly where me as a audio archaeologist desires to explore.”

When pop-punk has introduced Kelly his most significant business accomplishment, he wasn’t precisely slouching in his early rap days: All of his albums ended up leading-5 on the charts, conserve for 2017’s Bloom, which peaked at a respectable No. 8. Bloom, on the other hand, yielded Kelly’s largest strike song, as the Camila Cabello collaboration “Bad Things” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Incredibly hot 100, building it his only best-5 (or even top rated-10) solitary.

Look at the job interview over.