Machine Gun Kelly released his sophomore album, General Admission, Friday (October 16) and says that the project is not being covered by some media outlets because of a Tweet he posted in 2012 about Eminem‘s daughter.
“Pictures of that had came out and I’m like 21 years old,” Machine Gun Kelly says of the deleted Tweet to Ebro In The Morning. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God. She’s beautiful but all respect due. Eminem is king,'” What’s wrong with that? Is there a 15 year age gap where I’m a creep for that?”
He had written, “ok, so i just saw a picture of Eminem’s daughter… and i have to say, she is hot as fuck, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king.”
During the interview with Ebro, the Bad Boy Entertainment rapper says that the tweet was blown out of proportion and has blocked him from access to some media sites.
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“Certain people took it and ran with it and hyped it up,” he says. “Certain people won’t even listen or review this joint. Certain places you won’t even hear Machine Gun Kelly on. Certain things won’t even happen. A friend of mine said it best yesterday. They said, ‘Why do you care? You came in the industry blackballed. You already came in with everyone hating you.'”
Machine Gun Kelly says he is not sorry for the post, and expresses frustration that his reputation precedes his music.
“I’m not stressing it ’cause I’m not wrong,” he says. “I’ve done nothing wrong but come up from being a nobody and being a loser and doing exactly what the goal of Hip Hop was in the first place which was earn respect in a community, use my voice to bring other people up from a dark place, speak on realities of what’s going on in my community, and I’ve stayed true to that….Fuck anybody who’s trying to take food off not just my plate, but a whole city. It’s more than just me. Let us win. Help us, man. My intentions aren’t ill. I’m not out here flashing chains. I’m doing this for the same reason everybody else started doing this back in the day for this respect. Let me win, man. Stop holding me back. Everybody’s gotta stop this shit.”
