Since emerging as a hyperactive, scaffolding-scaling rapper in the early 2010s, MGK — formerly Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker — has forged his own path through the pop-cultural consciousness. He’s feuded with Eminem; he’s engaged in egregious red-carpet PDA with his onetime flame Megan Fox; he’s acted in movies and TV, with his full-body channeling of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee being a highlight of the hard rockers’ 2019 biopic The Dirt . And, oh yes, he’s released records.

In 2020, MGK fully pivoted from hip-hop to pop-punk with Tickets to My Downfall , a collection of punchy, hooky cuts that included the spittle-flecked Halsey duet “Forget Me Too” and the trap-tinged blackbear collab “My Ex’s Best Friend.” He continued playing with genre in the ensuing years, even calli

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