Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)
Richard Colson Baker , better known by his stage names MGK and Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, and actor, from Cleveland, Ohio. MGK embarked on a musical career as a teenager, releasing a mixtape in 2006. He would then go on to release four further mixtapes that garnered him nationwide attention by 2010.
Richard Colson Baker was born on April 22, 1990, in Houston, Texas, to missionary parents. MGK and his family moved all around the globe and took up residence abroad from Egypt to Germany, as well as throughout the United States in Chicago, Denver, and Cleveland. He settled in Denver, along with his father after his mother had left home, and the pair moved in with MGKs aunt. Following his father suffering from depression and unemployment, MGK endured bullying from other children in the neighborhood. He started listening to rap in the sixth grade, when he attended Hamilton Middle School, a school with an ethnically diverse student body in Denver, Colorado. The first three rappers that got him into the genre of hip hop as a child were Ludacris, Eminem and DMX, with MGK gaining severe interest in the genre after listening to DMXs We Right Here from the album The Great Depression . MGKs home life was seldom stable, as he would regularly fight with his father. When he attended Denvers Thoma
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