With the list A hosts, musicians and guests coming to “Saturday Night Live” every week, the 30 Rock workers need to be very impressed. But that’s exactly what Machine Gun Kelly (the rocker-turned-rapper performing the show for the first time on January 30) did.
“There are not many people here [because of COVID]”A member of 30 Rock said,” and overall everyone is pretty blasé. But this guy caused a bit of a fuss. ”
In fact, this week there are few people who climb higher than the ultra-tattooed six-foot-four Colson Baker (the real name of the 30-year-old star) who has walked the trail of John Varvatos and could be a model if it were not. I’m busy with an album no. 1 (“Tickets to My Downfall”, her fifth LP), a hot actress career and perhaps putting a touch on the engagement finger of girlfriend Megan Fox. As Page Six reported, the actress was spotted in New York City on Thursday with a “huge spark.”
Baker felt comfortable in Manhattan while the paparazzi took pictures of him and Fox outside 30 Rock, where he works this week with his close friend and the protagonist of “The Dirt,” Pete Davidson, but again , you may not be in a hurry to get married. Fox is reportedly still married to her ten-year-old husband, actor “90210” Brian Austin Green, with whom she shares three children, although she filed for divorce in November and has said they separated. a year earlier.
He met Baker, who uses his real name when he performs, on the set of the movie “Midnight in the Switchgrass” in March, and they’ve practically done an Instagram PDA sport.
In August, she posted a photo of herself and Baker, both of them poorly dressed, and titled it: “A very bad and handsome boy … My heart is yours.”
Green fired again posting a photo of his children, with the seemingly mocking caption “Painfully beautiful boys … My heart is yours.”
But Baker, who has previously been linked to singers Halsey and Demi Lovato and Kanye West, former Amber Rose, isn’t easily embarrassed. This is a man a porn star once liked while doing a concert.
Fox said of Baker on the podcast “Give them Lala” last year that “he knew right away that he was what I call a twin flame. Instead of a soul mate, a twin flame is actually where a soul it has risen to a sufficiently high level that it can be divided into two different bodies at the same time. “
Having a Hollywood sex symbol on him didn’t look like Baker’s letters, which rose to fame around 2011 as Eminem lite. Like the Detroit rapper, he told a later story about a hard life that inspired songs of vulnerability and depression, as well as challenge and ambition.
Most interviews with Baker say he was the son of missionaries who traveled the world as a child and then moved to Denver and then to the East Side of Cleveland, where he ended up in the ghetto.
But his real baggage is more murky. His father, James Colson Baker, was a human resources executive with companies such as Amoco, PepsiCo and Hewlett Packard during Baker’s childhood. James worked briefly in Cairo for Amoco, but it seems that his missionary work did not pass until Baker was in high school.
Baker’s mother, Sonia Kjos Waring, is an epidemiologist with a doctorate in veterinary entomology but, on the other hand, a mystery. Sources told The Post that she and Baker’s father had lived in Texas around 1998 when Baker was 8 years old and decided to liquidate all their assets and go abroad as missionaries.
But at the airport, Baker’s mother refused to go and told her husband she was leaving him for another man, whom she later married, a relative told the Post.
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It is unclear if Baker had any relationship with his mother after that. Calls and emails to her mother and stepfather went unanswered. Both her maternal uncle and a man at the maternal grandmother’s house hung up the phone when the name “Colson Baker” was mentioned.
“I don’t care,” they both said.
A Baker representative did not submit any requests for comment.
Baker grew up with his father, with whom he had a troubled relationship.
“I came from an extremely religious and extremely strict father, and he didn’t even let me grab the pen the way I wanted to have it,” Baker said. “This made me completely rebel and completely cut off communication, because I didn’t want to have anything in common with him.”
Elizabeth Brandl, an Illinois teacher who worked with and befriended James Colson Baker, remembered him as “the perfect executive, with a smile that would let the sun go down.
But the next day you ran into him and it was like he was collapsing, “Brandl told The Post.” He had zero self-confidence. He came from a small farming community and could have gotten this far. He talked about getting married. “She left this fabulous girl. Then she left him and broke his heart.”
James, who had studied theology, became more religious after his wife left, Brandl said. He and his son collided so much that Baker often left home, “living hand-to-hand and with friends,” he said.
Brandl said James was upset about his son’s lifestyle, but “always loved him,” he said.
Nicknamed Machine Gun Kelly for his fast-paced rap style, Baker released his first mixed tape in 2006. In 2009 he won the amateur night at Harlem’s Apollo, the first rapper to do so.
From there he was discovered by Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jimmy Iovine, who signed Baker to Interscope Records.
In 2011, Baker gained prominence with a mixtape titled “Lace Up,” which, among fans, has become a movement that means getting ready, showing up, whatever happens. For Baker, this ethos began when he was a father at just 18 years old, as his high school girlfriend Emma gave birth to his daughter Casie, who is now 12 years old, and the frequent travel companion of the his father.
Online fans rhapsodically believe about how Machine Gun Kelly’s songs about trying to overcome substance abuse (there’s been talk of Adderall addiction) and sometimes suicidal despair has helped them.
Baker famously bolstered himself with Eminem in what many say was a public relations trick that helped the younger rapper. In 2012, Baker tweeted that Eminem’s daughter, then 16, Hailie, was “hot as fk.” In 2018, Eminem released a devastating track, “Equal”. Baker continued with his own response, “Rap Devil”, after which Eminem possessed him with “Killshot”.
“MGK is pretty brilliant,” a music director who has watched him since his early days in Cleveland told The Post.
“I dreamed of growing up and started doing it as a rapper. He said, who is the giant of this game. I’m going to puncture that bear so much until it has a reaction and I notice. It worked. Eminem noticed and reacted … But I don’t think rap was [Baker’s] final. Now he is living his true dream. The hot girlfriend, the acting career. He achieved his success using psychology and his talent.
In fact, Baker has gone from playing a rapper in the 2014 film “Beyond the Lights” to playing roles in “Bird Box,” in the Showtime series “Roadies” and “Big Time Adolescence” and “The King.” of Staten Island “, these last two films with his close friend, Pete Davidson.
Despite the rocky relationship with his father, when James fell ill in 2019, Baker tweeted: “I should have told him I loved him years ago. It breaks my heart, that we have lost all this time. ”After James’ death in July, Baker tweeted that “I had never felt such deep pain in my life”.
A few days before his SNL debut, Baker remembered his late father.
“I remember as a kid watching SNL every weekend with my aunt and dad,” he tweeted. “Since they are not here to see this moment, I will perform the song I wrote for them on the show. Hopefully, I will hear them there.