EST Gee & Machine Gun Kelly’s Collab Leaves Fans Conflicted

Earlier than he was an emo-rock pop star (and became sort of cool to hate), Machine Gun Kelly launched a string of comparatively profitable rap albums and was greatest often known as a rapper, even showing on XXL‘s 2012 Freshman Class cowl alongside fellow future stars like Danny Brown, (ahem) Future, French Montana, and Macklemore (in addition to Iggy Azaela, Child Ink, and Hopsin. To not be a hater, however this may need been the weakest Freshman class ever chosen by that esteemed publication). Nevertheless, he’s acquired nearly all of his profession accolades since shifting genres in 2020 with Tickets To My Downfall.

However now, he’s back rapping, because of fellow Midwesterner EST Gee’s new album I By no means Felt Nun. Visitor-starring on “Dying Round The Nook,” MGK resurrects his rapid-fire circulate to mirror on his father’s loss of life, his industrial success, and the obvious joys of sipping lean. It’s a strong lure track and to be sincere, not that far off the mark from the music he used to make previous to 2019.

Nevertheless, rap followers’ reactions have been… let’s say “blended” concerning the prodigal son’s return. Within the final three years, he’s made fairly the spectacle of himself alongside his fiance Megan Fox and with the overall short-term reminiscence of social media, it’s possible plenty of people forgot — or by no means even knew — that he made rap, to start with. That short-lived however eventful feud with Eminem couldn’t have helped much, both. He does have just a few defenders, although, who have been fast to remind their fellow customers that he used to get bars off.

If MGK decides to stay to his hip-hop roots for the foreseeable future, although, rap followers would possibly simply need to get used to listening to him popping up on extra options now that he’s an authorized No.1-selling artist — even when he did have to modify his fashion up. Try extra responses to his collab with EST Gee beneath.