Colson Baker is popularly known as Machine Gun Kelly is an American rapper and actor. He embarked on a musical career as a teenager releasing a mixtape in 2006. He went on to release four more mixtapes.
Machine Gun Kelly cast as drummer Tommy Lee in The Dirt.
Richard Colson Baker was born on April 22, 1990, in Houston. He 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 attended Hamilton Middle School, a school with an ethnically diverse student body in Denver, Colorado. He started listening to rap in the sixth grade. His first three that got him into the genre of hip hop as a child were Ludacris, Eminem, and DMX. He stopped attending school and began to make a name for himself by calling out elder classmates. In 2005, he attended Shaker Heights High School. At high school, he convinced a local t-shirt shop owner to become his manager, as the shop owner would double as an MC manager. He released the mixtape Stamp of Approval in 2006.
There is no information about his family and siblings.
Machine Gun Kelly recently released movie is Big Time Adolescence, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2019. He has been cast as drummer Tommy Lee in The Dirt, a Netflix drama about Motley Crue.
Machine Gun Kelly has a child named Casie. He is not in a relationship with her mother any longer, he maintains a friendly relation with her. In 2015, he confirmed reports of dating hip hop model Amber Rose. They split the same year.
There is no information about his net worth.
Machine Gun Kelly won the Best Midwest Artist award at the 2010 Underground Music Awards. It also gained the Best Music Video at the 2010 Ohio Hip Hop Awards. In 2012, he won the MTV Breaking Woodie Award.