Born on April 22, 1990, Colson Baker is an American rapper, singer, musician, and actor better known as Machine Gun Kelly. He is known for fusing modern and alternative hip hop with rock in his compositions.
Machine Gun Between 2007 and 2010, Kelly released four mixtapes before signing with Bad Boy Records. Lace-Up, his debut studio album, debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 in 2012, and featured his hit single “Wild Boy.”
His second and third albums, General Admission (2015) and Bloom (2017) were both huge successes, with the latter featuring the single “Bad Things” (with Camila Cabello), which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Hotel Diablo (2019), his fourth studio album, included rap-rock.
Machine Gun Kelly’s fifth album, Tickets to My Downfall, was released in 2020, marking a total shift from hip hop and foray into pop-punk. It was the only rock album to start at number one on the Billboard 200 that year, and it included the single “My Ex’s Best Friend,” which peaked at number 20 on the Hot 100.
Machine Gun Kelly made his feature film debut in the romantic drama Beyond the Lights (2014) and has since acted in the thriller Nerve (2016), the horror Bird Box (2018), the comedy Big Time Adolescence, and the documentary The Dirt (both 2019).
Machine Gun Kelly’s Height
Machine Gun Kelly is 6’4″ ft tall, which is equivalent to 1.92 meters.
