Machine Gun Kelly has on event labored his tough household life rising up into his music, however throughout a latest visitor look on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, the rapper-turned-rocker revealed among the darker backstory to his upbringing, together with that his personal father was tried for the homicide of his grandfather when he was only a 9 12 months outdated child.

That traumatic expertise, MGK says, formed a few of how he was raised.

“I always used to get so mad at [my dad] when I was a kid cause if I scared him or he heard a loud boom or a loud noise, he would freak out — like gnarly freak out,” defined MGK, who then added the context as to why. “You sit there and you think about a kid who was on trial at 9 years old for the murder of his father and the story that was told to me was always that their dad had dropped the gun and his head essentially blew off. So that all happened in the room with my dad at 9 years old.”

According to the musician, police had discovered the shotgun beneath a mattress and later tried his father and his grandmother for homicide earlier than they had been ultimately acquitted within the case.

He went on to explain his father as somebody who had a break up character and revealed that schizophrenia had been a part of the historical past on that facet of his household. He additionally likened his father to having an obsessive compulsive character, very like Christian Bale’s character in American Psycho, the place tidiness and perfection had been anticipated and something much less was not tolerated.

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About MGK’s Mother

Within the identical interview, MGK addressed his mom’s position in his upbringing. Revealing that she left when he was 9 years outdated, his mom was not a presence as he grew up beneath his father’s care. “I didn’t hear the word ‘mom’ during my whole teenage years. All I heard was ‘whore.'” Kelly revealed at one level.

That stated, he did make clear to Bunnie XO that when he referenced her early in his profession, it wasn’t achieved with a full reflection of who she is.

“I would like to say for the record I love my mom dearly, and I misrepresented her a lot early in my career,” Kelly defined. “And not misrepresented in the sense of not speaking truth. I was speaking my truth, but I didn’t give the masses the chance to understand her truth.”

Within the chat, he reveals that he later realized that his father had stored her away from him. Check out extra of the dialogue under.

MGK can presently be heard on the duet “Lonely Road” with Bunnie XO’s husband, Jelly Roll.

MGK Guests on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde Podcast