He broke down the basics of what it means to be a young entertainer coming up in Cleveland’s hip-hop scene. Here are some context-free snippets from his interview:
“I just did outlandish things like pull up to high schools – you know, every fucking high school – on the east side, hand out my CDs. Already it was just awkward, ’cause it’s a white boy, it’s a rapper.”
“I got all my stuff organically.”
“People are meant to go in it. People are meant to go out of it.”
“Damn, I just stuttered like a motherfucker.”
“If you’re cool with somebody, they’re going to want to do stuff for you, man. Flat out.”
“Fuck it; two titties in a bucket.”
Check out the surprisingly in-depth full video below for the rest of Machine Gun Kelly’s wisdom and a preview of his quaint new single, “Ratchet”:
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2013.
I like to think I am a student of music, so I need to get famaliar with this dudes music. That way I can change the immediate thoughts I get every time you tits throw yourselves at his feet….
The real tragedy (and I’ve seen it on my street) is that there are actually white boys who are trying to emulate this scum now, and they are proliferating throughout Cleveland like toadstools. Never mind that the music is horrible…
The white boys that want to act like that would be trying to emulate any of the other rappers if MGK wasn’t around.