Machine Gun Kelly has responded to claims that he has abandoned hip-hop with the release of his new pop-punk album, Tickets To My Downfall. He told DX News, “No, I’m not leaving hip-hop yet. I’m not leaving here.”
He continued, “I mean André 3000 said it my favorite way: ‘Hip-hop is a young man’s game’. So essentially when I don’t have, or when I’ve stopped living a certain way, or if I don’t have the right vigor to deliver my lyrics with, then I’ll stop. But, I mean, I’m a fresh 30 and I’m still fully out there. So I don’t think hip-hop is going to stop for me at all.”
On his move into the pop-punk genre, Kelly recently said, “I would like to normalize how we think about doing multiple types of music. I didn’t ‘switch genres’; I’m versatile, and the wall isn’t boxed in.”
He added, “… Limitations would cause you to believe that, because I’ve put out four albums that are rap, I shouldn’t put out a fifth album that’s not rap.”