As A-list hosts, musicians and guests come through “Saturday Night Live” every week, it’s a lot to impress workers at 30 Rock. But that’s exactly what Machine Gun Kelly, the rapper playing for the show for the first time on January 30, managed to do.
‘There are not many people here [because of COVID], ‘Said a 30 Rock employee,’ and everyone is usually pretty blasé. But this guy caused a bit of a stir. ‘
Indeed, few people ride higher this week than the six-foot-four, ultra-tattooed Colson Baker – the 30-year-old star’s real name – who walked the runway for John Varvatos and could be a model if he did not. with a number 1 album (‘Tickets to My Downfall’, his fifth LP), a hot acting career and just putting a rock on girlfriend Megan Fox’s engagement finger. As Page Six reports, the actress was spotted in New York City on Thursday with a ‘big star’ on.
Baker looked comfortable in Manhattan when paparazzi took pictures of him and Fox outside 30 Rock – where he’s working with his closest friend and ‘The Dirt’ co-star Pete Davidson this week – but then he may not be in a hurry to do not marry. Fox is reportedly still married to her husband of ten years, ‘90210’ actor Brian Austin Green, with whom she shares three sons, although she filed for divorce in November, saying they divorced a year earlier. has.
She met Baker, who uses his real name as an actress, on the set of the movie “Midnight in the Switchgrass” in March, and they virtually made a sport of Instagram PDA.
In August, she posted a photo of herself and Baker, both barely dressed, and wrote it under the caption: “Constantly beautiful boy … My heart is yours.”
Green shot back by posting a photo of his boys, with the seemingly captioned caption: ‘Achingly beautiful boys… My heart is yours.’
But Baker – who was previously romantically linked to singers Halsey and Demi Lovato and Kanye West, ex Amber Rose – is not easy. This is a man who was once performed by a porn star during the concert.
Fox said on the ‘Give them Lala’ podcast about Baker last year that she ‘knew right away that he was a twin flame. Instead of a soulmate, a twin flame is actually the place where a soul has ascended to a high enough level that it can be divided into two different bodies simultaneously. ‘
Having a Hollywood sex symbol about him does not seem to Baker, who gained notoriety around 2011 as an Eminem lite. Like the Detroit rapper, he told a backstory about a difficult life that inspired songs of vulnerability and depression as well as defiance and ambition.
Most interviews with Baker say that he was the son of missionaries who traveled the world when he was little and that he later moved to Denver and then to the East Side of Cleveland, where he ended up in the ghetto.
But his real background is darker. His father, James Colson Baker, was a chief human resources chief at Baker’s childhoods at companies such as Amoco, PepsiCo and Hewlett Packard. James did work briefly for Amoco in Cairo, but his missionary work seems to have taken place before Baker was in high school.
Baker’s mother, Sonia Kjos Waring, is an epidemiologist with a doctorate in veterinary entomology, but otherwise a mystery. Sources told The Post that she and Baker’s father lived in Texas in 1998 when Baker was 8, and they decided to liquidate all their assets and go overseas as missionaries.
But at the airport, Baker’s mother refused to go and told her husband that she was leaving him for another man, whom she later married, a family member told the Post.
I do not think was rap [Machine Gun Kelly’s] endgame. He is now living his true dream. The hot girlfriend, the active career.
A Music Manager of Machine Gun Kelly
It is unclear whether Baker subsequently had an affair with his mother. Calls and emails to his mother and stepfather are unanswered. Both his maternal uncle and a mother at his maternal grandmother hung up the phone when the name was called “Colson Baker”.
“Not interested,” they both said.
A rep for Baker did not respond to a request for comment.
Baker grew up with his father, with whom he had a difficult relationship.
“I come from a father who was extremely religious and extremely strict, and did not even allow me to hold my pen the way I wanted to hold my pen,” Baker said. “It made me completely rebellious and cut off communication completely, because I did not want any common ground with him.”
Elizabeth Brandl, an Illinois teacher who worked with James Colson Baker and remained friends with him, reminded him of ‘the perfect driver, with a smile that would make the sun shine.
“But the next day you would run into him and it was as if he was just falling apart,” Brandl told The Post. “He had no confidence. He comes from a small farming community and he could have gone that far. He talked about the wedding with this fantastic girl. Then she left him and broke his heart. ”
James, who studied theology, became more religious after his wife left, Brandl said. He and his son clashed so much that Baker often left the house, “hand to mouth and living with friends,” she said.
Brandl said James was upset about his son’s lifestyle, but “always loved him,” she said.
Nicknamed Machine Gun Kelly for his rap-rap style, Baker released his first mixband in 2006. In 2009, he won amateur night in Harlem’s Apollo – the first rapper to do so.
From there, he was discovered by Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jimmy Iovine, who Baker signed to Interscope Records.
In 2011, Baker gained notoriety with a mixtape titled ‘Lace Up’ which became a movement among fans which means you have to be ready, show up no matter what happens. For Baker, this ethos began when he was just 18 years old, when his high school girlfriend Emma gave birth to their daughter Casie – now 12, and her father’s regular travel companion.
Fans online watch rapsodies about how Machine Gun Kelly’s songs about drug abuse are trying to overcome – he talked about addiction to Adderall – and sometimes suicide despair helped them.
Baker was famous with Eminem in what many believe was a PR stunt that helped the younger rapper. In 2012, Baker tweeted that the then 16-year-old daughter Hailie van Eminem was “hot as f – k.” Wash. In 2018, Eminem dropped a devastating diss-track, ‘Not Alike’. Baker follows with his own answer, ‘Rap Devil’, after which Eminem owns him with ‘Killshot’.
“MGK is pretty brilliant,” a music manager who has been observing him since his early days in Cleveland told The Post.
He dreamed of making it big and started being a rapper there. He said, who is the giant in this game. I’m going to stab that bear so much until I get reaction and I’m spotted. It worked. Eminem noticed this and he responded … But I do not think was fast [Baker’s] endgame. He is now living his true dream. The hot girlfriend, the active career. He achieved his success by using psychology as well as his talent. ”
Baker has indeed performed from a rapper in the 2014 film ‘Beyond the Lights’ to roles in ‘Bird Box’, the Showtime series ‘Roadies’ and ‘Big Time Adolescence’ and ‘The King of Staten Island’ – the last two films with his good friend, Pete Davidson.
Despite the rocky relationship with his father, when James fell ill in 2019, Baker tweeted: ‘I should have told him years ago that I loved him. Break my f – wholeheartedly that we have wasted all this time. “After James died in July, Baker tweeted that he ‘never felt pain so deep in my life.’
A few days before his SNL debut, Baker remembers his deceased father.
“I remember when I watched a kid watch SNL with my aunt and dad every weekend,” he tweeted. ‘Since they are not here to see this moment, I’m going to perform the song I wrote for them on the show. Hopefully I will feel them there. ‘