At the start of 2017 it had been some time since I'd last knowingly heard a new Top 40 hit. Out of interest I decided to give the new entries a listen. One of those was by a rapper called Machine Gun Kelly with "Bad Things". I saw him as being like a modern day Eminem and Google told me I wasn't the only one who thought that.
It turned out he was already an established rapper on Bad Boy records but this was his first Top 40 hit. The next time we'd see him in the Top 40 again was the following year with "Rap Devil" which was an Eminem diss track. There were also Machine Gun Kelly diss tracks from Eminem.
When Machine Gun Kelly returned to the Top 40 in 2020 he'd transformed into the modern day Blink 182. This was helped by the fact Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker was drummer and producer of said records.
This record charted on release of his "Tickets To My Downfall" album with an another track "My Ex's Best Friend" charting at number 30 the same week. He's since stuck to making punk with Travis Barker.
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