Machine Gun Kelly recently sat down with Steve Lobel for an episode of Steve Lobel live.
During the five-minute conversation, Lobel asks MGK his thoughts on fellow White rappers 3rd Bass, MC Serch and Pete Nice.
“They’re legends,” MGK responds. “I missed that whole Hip Hop period. I missed everything and came back to it… I was in to metal. I was in to the heavier stuff and after the heavier stuff I was listening to corny shit. Corny shit that you’re parents feed you, that they say is okay to listen to that doesn’t corrupt your brain.”
The Cleveland-native says that the first Hip Hop song he listened to was a track by DMX. He was drawn to the Ruff Ryders rapper because of the content within his songs.
“I was more intrigued with the people that were rapping about stuff that I was feeling like being alone or having to run away,” MGK says. “That’s why DMX was so big to me.”
His role as Kid Culprit in the film Beyond the Lights is also discussed in the sit-down.
“That was a blessing it was many years in the works,” MGK says of his first major acting appearance. “I ended up getting the role and it was definitely life-changing… It helped shit get better back home just with the respect level.”
Check out the full interview below:
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Not much of a fan, but MGK has a genuine love for the culture and the peoples. I can dig that.
….Dude is a giant douche. You should watch his interview with the Breakfast Club, he tries acting way too cool. Angela Yee tells him about the last time she saw him, he says he remembers but he was “fucked up”. Then she says that wasn’t the time, he then says that he remembered what she was talking about but he was also “fucked up”. Then he spit a freestyle, Charlamagne said he wasn’t feeling it, MGK got frustrated and spit another freestyle, Charlamagne said that he didn’t like that one either, and MGK started tearing up.
DMX will always be my number 1