Colson Baker, better known as Automobile Gun Kelly, or MGK, is an American rapper, vocaliser, and actor who rose to fame in the early 2010s. Widely known for his rap career, MGK grew upward listening to famous acts such every bit DMX and his "idol" Eminem. MGK has released five studio albums, four of which are rap albums. His most recent release is a pop-punk album, produced by blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

Grammy and Oscar winning rapper Eminem, given proper noun Marshall Mathers, has been making music since the late '90s, and is considered past many to be 1 of the greatest rappers of all time. The two rappers have famously, or rather infamously, feuded for years, leaving some to wonder if MGK quit rapping due to his dispute with the mononymous rapper. Here's what we know about their feud and MGK'south pop-punk album,Tickets to My Downfall.

7 MGK Tweets About Eminem's Daughter

This feud started, unwittingly, back in 2012 when Machine Gun Kelly tweeted about Eminem'south daughter, commenting on her appearance. The tweet read: "I have to say, she is hot as f***, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is male monarch." Years later, co-ordinate to Eminem, he went down a "wormhole on YouTube" and discovered the tweet, igniting a feud between the two musicians.

6 Eminem Releases a Diss Rail

Several years after Machine Gun Kelly posted his tweet, 6 to be exact, Eminem released a diss runway entitled "Non Alike" calling out Car Gun Kelly for the tweet nearly his girl, as he found information technology inappropriate. After reading it for the first time all those years later, the tweet bothered Eminem, and when asked almost information technology he explained his frustration and reason for the subsequent diss, calling it "petty" and claiming to non care virtually MGK'southward career.

5 MGK Releases a Diss Rail

Machine Gun Kelly released an EP called "Binge," which included his own diss track "Rap Devil" in response to Eminem'southward, the title a direct reference to Eminem'south song "Rap God." MGK expressed his confusion over his releasing of a diss track centered on something he said 6 years ago, and spent the remainder of the track airing his issues with the Detroit native. MGK found the diss track troubling for a variety of reasons, just as he would afterwards reveal, he was upset about being entangled in a feud with someone he in one case revered as an idol.

4 Eminem Releases Another Diss Track

After "Rap Devil" was released, Eminem released withal some other diss track aimed at Machine Gun Kelly, called "Killshot," which spurred reaction posts from fans across the cyberspace. Fans took sides in the feud, some thanking MGK for "sacrificing his career" so they could take another Eminem diss rail, and others commending MGK for not merely having the courage to release an Eminem diss track, but having the talent to back upwards his claims. Later hearing Eminem'southward 2d diss track, MGK wrote a response but never released it. He says he isn't over their feud, but he's done releasing diss tracks.

3 MGK ReleasesHotel Diablo

In 2019, MGK dropped his 4th studio anthology, Hotel Diablo. The album was received with lack of critical acclaim, which Car Gun Kelly attributed to its release "coming off the tail-terminate of that infamous beefiness." MGK described his album equally "flawless front to back," and "a hint at the evolution of how [he] went into a pop-punk album" in an interview with Dave Franco for Interview magazine.

2 MGK's Unmarried "I Think I'm OKAY"

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The album's most popular unmarried "I Think I'm OKAY"  is incomparably popular-punk and features a singing MGK rather than rapping. The vocal is a collaboration with MGK'due south close friends Travis Barker and British pop-punk singer Yungblud. The three have collaborated as duos and trios several times, creating mostly pop-punk piece of work. Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly said of the Hotel Diablo song, "information technology felt similar the song that we both wish we wrote when we were twelve" in an interview with Audacy. Looking dorsum, fans can meet this vocal was a precursor to the music MGK was going to release.

1 MGK DropsTickets to My Downfall

Simply over a year after releasing Hotel Diablo, Automobile Gun Kelly fabricated a complete genre shift from his 4 previous albums and released a bonafide pop-punk album, a complete genre shift from his four previous studio albums. A critical and commercial success, this was MGK's get-go album to non just accomplish, but debut at, #ane on the Billboard 200 chart.

Although some speculate Eminem pushed MGK to switch from rap to pop-punk, MGK has made information technology articulate he shifted on his own, telling NME he'southward played guitar since he was a kid and was a member of a pop-punk band as a teenager. He mentions, too, "a lead vocalizer with a guitar-playing four-chord pop-punk" is "a missing link in this electric current mean solar day."Tickets to My Downfallshowed fans MGK plans to make full that void.

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