After taking a detour into rock, Machine Gun Kelly is again on his rap sport on the brand new four-minute profession retrospective monitor “Strain.” Over a laid-back “la-la-la” background, MGK raps, “The diamonds are symbolic of all of the stress they placed on me till I shined/ My life is symbiotic with the tradition, I may by no means, ever lose the vibe,” within the opening verse of the track that dropped on Monday.
The accompanying video finds Colson going residence to Cleveland to hold along with his buddies and ensuring you recognize he’s repping his hometown through a white hat that reads, “I’m From Cleveland.” Although he’s risen up from his humble roots, MGK revisits the lean years within the second verse, the place he raps, “I used to be eleven/ Sharin’ a mattress with my dad, however didn’t have a bed room/ In a recession/ Six of us in a Ford Explorer, didn’t have leg-room/ Every little thing’s destined/ It was inevitable I tackle his aggression.”
The visible ping-pongs between MGK and his dancers bopping down the town’s streets, vehicles and four-wheelers burning out in entrance of a liquor retailer and Baker casually sitting on a gold and crimson throne. A couple of minute and a half in, the hi-hat heavy beat subtly shifts to a molasses-slow chopped and screwed vibe as MGK’s pal, Bupkis star Pete Davidson, makes a quick cameo chilling in entrance of an ice cream truck.
The third a part of the track shifts right into a slinky uptempo beat, with MGK turning his consideration to flossing about his cash, jewels, ladies and a few of his demons. “I slept within the assault, had demon nights/ That’s in the home off Lee Highway/ I noticed my buddy’s eyes change, now he only a physique with no soul,” he laments.
“Strain” is MGK’s return to rap following two rock-leaning albums, Tickets to My Downfall (2020) and Mainstream Sellout (2022) and it comes on the heels of his “Doja Freestyle” and “Renegade Freestyle,” with the latter seemingly taking photographs at Jack Harlow.
Try he “Strain” video beneath.
