American music icon Machine Gun Kelly – real name Colson Baker – was partly raised in Kenya as a child before relocating to Germany and later to the States.
Reminiscing about his childhood Machine Gun Kelly told GQ, “I spent part of my childhood in Kenya and there is this picture of Show-And-Tell when I was in second grade from when I lived there.”
He explained the story behind the photo.
“It was of this monkey that stole my Fanta.”
Adding, “And it is like the monkey was just sitting there drinking my Fanta and I’m just sitting there crying.”
In the interview, Machine Gun Kelly said he travelled a lot as a child and grew up in Egypt and Kenya till he was 5 years old.
He learnt Arabic during his stay in Egypt.
Machine Kelly is now receiving backlash after offensive comments he made about Black women and oral sex resurfaced across social media this week.
According to Buzz Feed News, the criticism stems from a video interview he did back in 2021 at the BET Awards.
Sharing the old clip on Twitter this week, singer Alice Glass wrote: “I’m sorry I have to give a trigger warning for this one. this video of MGK is disturbing.”
Alice added, “why, as a white man, would you ever talk like this? fetishizing black women and in such a disrespectful way!? … apologize for this @machinegunkelly this was beyond disgusting.”
He is yet to comment on the matter.
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