Colson Baker is famously known as ‘Machine Gun Kelly’ or ‘MGK’. He is an American professional rap artist, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is most recognized for his music style where he combines his composition of alternative and contemporary hip hop with rock music.
In his music career, he has successfully released several albums and collaborative songs that earned him nominations and awards in the field. He also ventured successfully into the film industry by playing support and main roles.
As one of the most successful and well-known artists in this generation, let us look into MGK’s net worth, career, and life.
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How much is Machine Gun Kelly Worth?
Machine Gun Kelly has an estimated net worth of $12 million.
His net worth details were taken from public information and sources. Most of his earnings come from his music career, television appearances, and films.
He also has earned from his entertainment platform account such as YouTube, where he has 7.85 million subscribers.
How much does MGK make a year?
Considering his career path, the album was released, film appearances, and YouTube account. MGK has an estimated earning of $5 million per year.
To break it down, his success in his career mostly earned him $2.5 million per year. His YouTube channel is gaining more than 45 million views per month and if we include sponsorship or advertising programs in between, he can easily earn $2.5 million per year.
This figure is an estimate, and will mostly get higher if we include additional revenues, commissions, and gigs.
MGK also made a profit from some of his side businesses like his coffee shop.
Machine Gun Kelly Early Life:
Machine Gun Kelly, whose real name is Colson Baker, was born on the 22nd of April, 1990, in Houston, Texas, U.S. His parents were missionaries and they lived and moved to different places from Egypt to Germany to cities in the United States. After MGK’s mother left with another man when he was just 9 years old, he and his father moved to Denver, Colorado.
When they moved to Denver, Colorado, they lived with Machine Gun Kelly’s aunt. Growing up, MGK was bullied by the neighborhood kids, while his father fought unemployment and depression. Machine Gun Kelly regularly fought with his father when he was younger. He grew up in an unstable household.
MGK stood out among the kids because of his height and at that time he didn’t know how to fight, physically. Instead, he started fighting with words. It was in 7th grade that MGK found relief in rhyming as he was inspired by watching the video of DMX entitled “We Right Here”. DMX is a huge influence on Machine Gun Kelly because of their story that they only had themselves because they don’t have any siblings.
In high school, Machine Gun Kelly attended Denver’s Thomas Jefferson High School. During high school, MGK’s father moved to Kuwait to work for the army. MGK was left behind living in the basement of his aunt’s house. With no supervision, he then began experimenting with drugs and at the same time recorded his amateur demo entitled “Stamp of Approval”. When his father moved to Kuwait, MGK stopped going to school.
MGK’s Music Career And Rise To Fame
MGK’s music career started in 2012 when he first announced his debut album called ‘Lace Up’. Following it was a successful hit of his lead single ‘Wild Boy’ that ranked 98th on the US Billboard Hot 100. Furthermore, the song reached a height where it was certified as gold by the Record Industry Association of America.
He also made collaborative songs during his early career such as ‘Invincible’ where it featured co-artist Ester Dean. The song was featured in a commercial and also became the theme song in a WWE event, highlighting the rematch of John Cena and The Rock.
2012 was a successful run for MGK in his music career. He was awarded the MTVu Breaking Woodie Award and was featured on the cover of XXL magazine as Top 10 Freshmen List. In the same year, he also released his mixtape called EST 4 Life. It is a compilation of his old and new record materials.
His debut album featured several artists and has been well recognized that it was ranked 4th in the US Billboard 200. In its first week of sales, it sold over 57,000 copies, the second week it reached over 65,000 copies, and in 2015, it already reached over 260,000 sold copies.
In 2013, MGK introduced his mixtape called ‘Black Flag’ and released a promotional music video for his song ‘Champions’ featuring P.Diddy for his mixtape. The album also featured other artists such as Sean McGee, Tezo, Kellin Quinn, Dub-O, and French Montana.
Behind the Black Flag album, MGK posted a letter on social media that explains it. He explained how he learned the importance of love when it was taken from him and now that he has it, he will never surrender it through his passion for music.
In 2016, his joint song with Camila Cabello called ‘Bad Things’ reached the fourth spot on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was a prominent time of his career staging opening concerts and tours for well-known artists such as Linkin Park.
In 2018, MGK released his diss track to Eminem called ‘Rap Devil’, this is in response to Eminem’s diss tracks ‘Not Alike’ and ‘Rap God’. In the same year, Eminem responded to his ‘Rap Devil’ with his response song called ‘Killshot’. After that, MGK continued to release songs from his EP Binge where it debuted reaching a place on the 24th spot in the Billboard 200 with a week of sales of over 21,000 units.
In 2019, he released his new single ‘Hollywood Whore’ from his new album ‘Hotel Diablo’. Followed then by his second single ‘El Diablo’ and the final single ‘Glass House’. It was popularized and has also reached a notable rank on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2020 up to this present time, continuing his passion for music, MGK released albums and projects called ‘Tickets to My Downfall’ and songs like ‘Bullets with Names’. This includes cover songs like ‘Misery Business’, ‘Champagne Supernova’, and others more.
Aside from his career, he also ventured into different industries. He opened his coffee shop called 27 Club Coffee in Cleveland. He also engaged in the film industry.
In his acting career, his debut film was ‘Beyond the Lights’ in 2014. Other movies are The Land, Roadies, Bird Box, The Dirt, and Big Time Adolescence.
Who is Machine Gun Kelly’s Wife?
Throughout his relationship, MGK remained single and not married.
If we follow his relationship story. He had a relationship with Emma Cannon during his teen years and had a daughter with her named Casie Colson Baker, who was born in July 2009. After that, he was with Amber Rose, who is an actress and a model. Their relationship started in 2015.
In 2020, MGK started dating the model, Sommer Ray, but the relationship lasted only for a month. Since then in the same year, just a month after he split up with Sommer Ray, MGK dated and has been in a relationship with famous actress Megan Fox, up to this current time.
How Machine Gun Kelly Spends His Money?
With an estimated net worth of $12 million, you might be wondering how MGK spends its money. Well for a start he owns a very high-profile car collection that has an estimated total of $1 million all in all.
He also invests a lot of his money and time in music. This includes luxury items and accessories that he needs to fit his lifestyle.
As a celebrity, he is also known to travel a lot in luxurious vacations, hotels, and resorts. He also does international travel.
Some of his most spent or investments go to his properties, home, and business ventures.
He might have also spent a considerable amount on his tattoos. Tattoos don’t normally come cheap and he has a total of 78 in his body.
As a young and successful artist, MGK is loved for how simple and low-key he spends his hard-earned money.
Machine Gun Kelly’s Car Collection
MGK is a professional music artist and his work has been well recognized. In his career, he has earned a sure amount of money that deserved him a life of luxury.
One of his passions, hobbies, and a lot of investment goes to his car collection.
He owns an Aston Martin DB11 with a custom purple setup that can launch speed up from 0 to 100 in a 3.8 seconds mark. It has an estimated price of $205,000. This is one of his favorite car collections.
Other well-renowned vehicles that MGK owns are a $220,000 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, $140,000 Lamborghini Gallardo, $109,000 Mercedes Benz S-Class, and a $ $25,000 Yellow Chevy Camaro.
He can also be seen riding a motorcycle around his neighborhood. He owns a $10,000 Harley Davidson and $30,000 Can-Am Spyder bicycle.
We can still expect a lot more to be added to his car collection, looking at the growth of his career in the future.
Machine Gun Kelly’s Tattoos
MGK can be seen and appreciated by his tattoos that are very visible in his body. Like many other tattoo enthusiasts, each tattoo tells a story of his life.
He has a total of 78 tattoos on his body. These tattoos are named 71 North, 216 East, Double Decker Bus, Sex-Drugs-Rock&Roll, Fuck fame it killed all my favorite entertainers, City Boy, 557, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, MGK, Cannabis, And into the woods I go to lose my mind & find my soul, Prisoner, ACE of hearts, East 303, Fuck Off, Girls on both side of his chest, Banksy, Anarchy, XXX, Big Brother Eye, Black Heart, Almost Famous, Every sinner has a future every saint has a past, Est. 1990, Guardian Angel, PUNK Couple, RIP B Arnold, Mayhem, RHCP, Heroes get remembered Legends never die, Locals Only, Blooming Rose, Kiss the Sky, Jessica Rabbit, Gash on Chest, Friend’s Art Piece, Small tattoos on left arm, Boy Walking on the road, Red Die, Danger Sign, Rose, Palm Tree, Love, Man sitting on a cut tree, Red flower, Seven point star, Hotel Diablo, wrist tattoo, Casie, Gun tattoo, the marathon continues, tickets to my downfall, right forearm tattoo, right wrist tattoo, O on the right arm, Follow your dreams, falling person, left thigh tattoo, Spider, behind the ear tattoo, lightning bolt, Atom, barbed wire, Red star, small cartoons, Caution, and vertical bloodline.
Others are indefinite art pieces. But all of these have specific meaning and experiences in MGK’s personal life and his career journey. Here are some of the stories that it portrays.
His 216 and 303 tattoos are codes for Denver when he and his family moved there and Cleveland where he is originally from. The East tattoo refers to his hometown, 71 North is his reminder when he’s homesick to take a 71 north bus and just be at home, and Fuck Off tattoo where he points at it whenever he doesn’t want to be talked to.
Two of his tattoos have a deeper meaning and experience, his Salvador Dali tattoo of ‘The Temptation of Saint Anthony’ tells his story of sin, repent, strength, success, and lust.
This is his journey of living a dark life as he slowly transcends to make things right. Second is his Double Decker Bus tattoo where he was hit by that type of bus when he was out looking for some weed.
The image shows a broken windshield as it happened when it hit MGK. This was a memory of that accident. During that time, he was fortunate to stand right back up and run as he thought he had done something bad.