It looks like Machine Gun Kelly has changed his stage name

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Machine Gun Kelly has changed his stage name to mgk.The rapper – real name Colson Baker – recently changed the name of his profiles on different streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube as well as his X/Twitter account to mgk – the initials of his pseudonym Machine Gun Kelly.According to a biography on the talent First Avenue, the musician revealed that he “got the name Machine Gun Kelly because of my rapid-fire delivery when I was 15 and started doing shows.”His most recent single ‘Don’t Let Me Go’, which arrived on February 21, was the first release under his new moniker of mgk.A post shared by colson xx blonde don (@machinegunkelly)Last year, speculation of a name change arose when Baker’s comments and online activity suggested that he had started going by “machine”.It came after he was previously asked by comedy duo Chad and JT at one of his shows to change his name in a video.

During the show in question the pair held up a sign that read, “Change your name!!!”“I have no idea what that sign means,” he replied on stage at the time.“We want you to change your name.

We want you to take out the ‘Machine Gun’ so we don’t glorify machine guns. Just take out the ‘Machine Gun,’” they shouted back.When MGK asked the audience what they thought, he was met with loud cheers.Mgk’s last full-length release was 2022’s ‘Mainstream Sellout’.