MGK

What I respect most about MGK is his refusal to stay in a lane. Born in Houston but raised in Cleveland, he built his name as a rapper out of Cleveland, then swerved hard into pop-punk and guitar-driven rock at the exact moment most artists would have played it safe. That kind of reinvention invites critics, and he gets plenty, but I find genuine courage in someone willing to risk an established audience to chase a sound he actually loves. The gangster-derived stage name always struck me as fitting: there is a certain reckless, all-in energy to everything he does. Polarizing, sure, but never boring, and I quietly root for him.

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Name (English)

MGK

Name (Japanese)

マシン・ガン・ケリー

Reading

ましん・がん・けりー

Born

April 22, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / guitarist / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

High school

Thomas Jefferson High School

• Official sitehttps://www.machinegunkelly.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/machinegunkelly/
• Xhttps://x.com/machinegunkelly
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGK
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354843

Tags

• Texas
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.