When Machine Gun Kelly's dad was only 9 years old, he and MGK's grandmother were both tried for the murder of his grandfather. The singer is now opening up about the bleak episode that haunted his childhood.
MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, grew up the son of Christian missionaries. The family lived in Germany, Kenya, Egypt, and Texas all by the time Baker was a teenager. When his father was only nine years old, he was implicated in a gruesome event that irrevocably altered the course of his whole family's lives: the murder of his own father.
Baker also connected his early childhood trauma to his passion for music, saying, "I was a really shy, f---ed up kid, internally, and really broken. I'm just now fixing myself and I don't have the energy to be the image that I was, because I'm also kinda sick of being on an island alone, outside of my fans who can really read into the music."Machine Gun Kelly's Life in Pink.
"I watched my Dad suffer a lot. He watched his dad die in front of him," Baker narrates. He describes growing up with a father that was loving and invested but, despite himself, could be jumpy, depressive, and emotionally removed. Baker theorizes that, "Maybe I sabotage myself on purpose 'cause I just feel not worthy of being loved. It's instilled from childhood, and you learn from the people that raise you.
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