Formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly, MGK has confirmed a new full length due in 2027.
Teasing that the follow-up to 2025’s Lost Americana is on the way, the now 36-year-old rap-rocker told his Rock in Rio audience “New album coming out next year. I don’t know how to say all the things I want to in Portuguese, but invent something along the lines of ‘Thank you, I love you. All my fans who came tonight, you’re the f****** MVPs.’ I’m gonna go smoke 200 cigarettes. Goodbye!”
In addition his album releases, the musician dropped a joint mixtape with Wiz Khalifa, Blog Era Boyz, and teamed up with Limp Bizkit legend Fred Durst on nu-metal collaboration FIX UR FACE.
Calling himself a “representative of the broken,” it was during his Rock in Rio set that the artist (born Colson Baker) admitted he makes music so he doesn’t end up in jail. In an emotional moment with the crowd before performing ‘Lonely,’ he added:
“I never set out to be the greatest musician; I never set out to be any of those things. I just wanted to get my pain out. I wanted to find a community that I never had, and music was my outlet – because where I’m from, everyone ends up dead or in jail. I’m sure it’s a lot like this place, but I was fortunate enough to be one of the people that made it out. And I say this: you can’t become whole until you experience being broken. This was a song I wrote about being broken.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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