Trouble magnet (and Cleveland rapper) Machine Gun Kelly was arrested in Florida yesterday for what the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office calls “brawling.”
MGK — who was booked under his real name, Richard Baker — was booked at 3 a.m. on Sunday for “disorderly conduct (brawling).”
Details are sketchy, but apparently MGK was arrested after performing at St. Petersburg’s State Theatre on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Brawling apparently happened after the gig.
Not so surprisingly, MGK took to Twitter immediately after he was freed on $100 bond after spending four hours in jail: “Just spent my entire night in a fucking Florida jail … shit escaladed way to [sic] quick last night, it always does with us though.”
Also not so surprisingly, MGK has a lot of fans who are in jail: “The weirdest part of it was how many inmates in there knew who I was and knew about the movement,” MGK wrote on Twitter. “It was some trippy shit. Lace the FUCK up.” —Michael Gallucci
This article appears in Jan 25-31, 2012.
oh well……….
4 hours in the big house and already hardened and dangerous and feeling like a revolutionary soldier. Well that’s the price when you are a leader of a movement..today a rap star, next week a legend. Here in Cleveland we have Jimmy D. thinking he was Al Capone, Frank Russo thinking he is Pretty Boy Floyd and now we have another gangster playing Machine Gun Kelly. We got Franky putting the finger on people from the joint down south, while MGK is making contacts in the Flordia pens making connects with the Cuban mafia probably in search of Scar Face. Danny Green’s got some serious gangsters looking to replace him as the baddest mother-fucken gangster in Cleveland history. I’m going back to the auto-start on my car and I ain’t making any appointments with dentists or anyone no more until this Cleveland gangster thing gets sorted out. Just in case–Jimmy, I was joking about you fitting people up for concrete shoes..LLAMFer