American musician and actor MGK’s real name is Colson Baker (born 1990). He often styles his stage name as mgk, and he formerly went by the moniker Machine Gun Kelly, which is taken from a Prohibition-era gangster of the same name and referenced MGK’s rapid-fire rapping skills. He later dropped Machine Gun Kelly as a stage name after activists noted that it could appear to glorify guns.
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