Machine Gun Kelly returned to the rap aspect together with his piano-laden “Dont Let Me Go” single Wednesday (Feb. 21), which he shortly adopted up with an evocative visible.
The desolate tune finds MGK revealing a “breakdown” that led to his new large blackout tattoo whereas he additionally touches on his shattered relationship together with his late father, substance abuse, psychological well being points and extra contributing to his downfall.
“Identical to I want they might perceive me one time/ I had a breakdown and tatted my whole physique besides one line,” he admits.
The clip is saved easy for probably the most half, with MGK trying straight into the lens’ soul with the backdrops leaping from him on the piano to the darkish woods and the town skyline of Cleveland.
“Earlier than my dad left to serve/ He made positive I took on each high quality I didn’t need/ I used to be presupposed to die at beginning/ Gave me an opportunity and I f—ed it up, give me one other one,” Kells raps in brutally sincere trend.
Machine Gun Kelly references the miscarriage his fiancée Megan Fox suffered, which she opened up about in her poetry guide final yr. “I’ve by no means been via something like that in my life,” the actress asserted.
“How can I stay with the actual fact/ That my hand wasn’t on her abdomen after we misplaced the child?/ I don’t bought nobody to show to/ As a result of everybody’s useless in my life that was tryna increase me,” he raps.
MGK hit the stage on the 2022 Billboard Music Awards and devoted a efficiency of Mainstream Sellout‘s “Twin Flame” to his unborn youngster.
Earlier this week, the “Bloody Valentine” artist blacked out his higher physique with a jarring tattoo masking his whole chest and arms. “For religious functions solely,” he captioned a submit of the brand new ink. The piece reportedly took 13 completely different six-hour classes in Los Angeles to finish.
The Cleveland native’s final rap album got here in 2019 with Resort Diablo, and he seems to be headed down that path as soon as once more following his profitable two-album rock pivot. 2022’s Mainstream Sellout debuted at No. 1 atop the Billboard 200 with 93,000 album items bought.
Watch the “Dont Let Me Go” video beneath.
