Artist Former roster
Machine Gun Kelly
Cleveland's Colson Baker came to Bad Boy in its Interscope joint-venture era as Machine Gun Kelly, now shortened to MGK, and has since rapped, sung, written songs, produced and acted.
Colson Baker walked in with Cleveland thunder: fast, loud, impossible to ignore. That’s the kind of artist you sign when you believe energy can become architecture if you build long enough.
His Bad Boy chapter sits in the Interscope joint-venture era, when the label was looking for new voices who could tour hard, rap hard and grab young listeners by the collar. MGK did what real artists do and kept moving: genres, looks, roles, stages.
The name Machine Gun Kelly was borrowed from George Kelly Barnes, the Prohibition-era gangster who carried that nickname. These days it’s just MGK.
Love him, debate him, stream him: he’s still here because he isn’t scared to reinvent, even when he’s wildin’ on purpose.
Discography 10
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Appears on 3
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Frequent collaborators
Songs shared across Bad Boy releases
