When the improper weed meant Machine Gun Kelly misplaced out on an enormous film function

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Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) first got here onto the musical scene as a rapper. In 2018, he entered a feud with Eminem and didn’t fare effectively in it. That stated, over the previous few years, he has transitioned into rock music and has opened up about his love of sure rock artists—one thing he didn’t do whereas energetic in hip-hop.

Machine Gun Kelly is understood for being a fan of the late artist David Bowie and even known as himself the David Bowie of his era in his 2017 track ‘Golden God.’ The rapper and singer has said on a number of events that he was impressed by Bowie rising up and has beforehand informed the web journal JOE that he was influenced by the 1977 track ‘Heroes’.

Throughout his interview with the web publication, MGK unveiled that he was moved by Bowie’s last album, Blackstar, explaining, “His last album, just listen to how much it was hinting towards his death. I was actually over here [when it was released], the promotion was everywhere so I went and listened to it straight away. But when I went back and listened to it after he was dead, I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ It just hit me in a much different way.”

That stated, Kelly was able to audition when a chance to play Bowie within the 2020 biopic Stardust got here his approach. Nonetheless, his life-style on the time finally prohibited him from sending in his audition tape.

Throughout a dialogue with Interview journal, Kelly laughed when talking concerning the missed alternative, unveiling, “What’s funny is that in real life, four or five years ago, I did audition for the Bowie biopic. I think it was called Stardust. But I never sent in my tape!”

Kelly stated that he was determined for the half, however his love of marijuana stopped him from performing correctly. Elaborating on this, the rapper continued, “I smoked the wrong strain of weed and rewatched it, and I was like, ‘I’m too insecure. I can’t do it.’ I did the bolt. I did the Ziggy Stardust. I had a dialect coach help me master his exact way of speaking. I did all of that. Then, I did the audition, was about to send it in, and I was smoking this weed in Europe and rewatched the tape and was like, ‘Oh, I can’t send this!’”

Bowie impressed Machine Gun Kelly in numerous methods. As such, since leaving hip-hop, he has begun to embrace his glam-rock aspect extra along with his aesthetic. Explaining it was Bowie’s dying that pushed him on this course, Kelly concluded, “Ever since Bowie and Prince passed I realized that I really wanted to start making more than just statements with my music.”

He concluded, “If that means that clothes can be a statement, which they are, but it took me a while to realize. And they really inspired it. So ever since then, I’ve just been doing statement pieces.”

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