Machine Gun Kelly Sings In Spanish And Disses Haters At Festival Show

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Machine Gun Kelly Performs In The First Day Of Mad Cool
SPAIN - JULY 06: The singer Machine Gun Kelly during a performance on the first day of the Mad Cool 2023 festival, which opens in Villaverde Alto, on July 6, 2023, Madrid, Spain. Colson Baker, known professionally as Machine Gun Kelly (MGK), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and actor. He is noted for his duality of genres through alternative rock and hip hop. Mad Cool 2023 is the most important music festival in Madrid and one of the most important nationally. This year Mad Cool premieres new location and enclosure: 185,000 square meters that are located in Villaverde and has eight stages. Since its birth in 2016, Mad Cool has climbed steps to become one of the Spanish festival events with the most ambitious lineup. (Photo By Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Machine Gun Kelly flexed his Spanish at a recent show in Spain.

Yesterday, Machine Gun Kelly performed at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid, Spain. According to HipHopDX, right in the middle of playing a string of his biggest hits he stopped to address his fans in attendance. He spoke to the crowd completely in Spanish thanking them for their love and welcoming him into their country. He then declared that he would pay homage to their language by singing a song with them. The song he picked was Marc Cisco's "Oy Yoy You," which was clearly a good choice as the crowd sang along with every word.

Afterwards, Machine Gun Kelly did something he's used to doing often, taking on haters. “Haters will say I switched genres again,” he captioned a clip he posted of the performance. Once purely a rapper, MGK notoriously took a turn for pop-punk a few years ago and has found massive success with it. Both of his pop-punk albums Tickets To My Downfall and Mainstream Sellout debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. He also scored a top-20 hit alongside blackbear with the song "My Ex's Best Friend." The track has since gone 3x platinum.

Machine Gun Kelly Singing In Spanish

Another one of Machine Gun Kelly's "haters," at least if you ask him, is Jack Harlow. In a recent song, Harlow said that he was the best white rapper since Eminem, a comment MGK clearly took offense to. MGK brought it up with a diss at Harlow in one of his backyard freestyles. He followed that by teaming up with Doe Boy in the next episode of his freestyle series.

Machine Gun Kelly has also beefed with many others. His highly publicized beef with Eminem a few years ago resulted in some major hit diss tracks. Just recently he found himself taking shots at the frontman of 2000's pop punk band The All-American Rejects. All of that has come alongside his ongoing relationship drama with actress Megan Fox. What do you think of Machine Gun Kelly singing to his fans in Spanish? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.
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