- The next music video
is "Bloody Valentine."
[soft rock music]
I said "Sail" was my favorite music video
but for other more personal reasons
"Bloody Valentine" might
now be my favorite video.
What's up guys, I am Machine Gun Kelly
and welcome to my home.
This is my fancy circle.
We have some Paulo Santo
right here to clear the energy
because I'm gonna have to
watch old music videos of mine.
I'm gonna talk about
some stories behind them,
read some comments.
Let's go.
[upbeat music]
[typing]
Let's check out "Till I Die".
♪ On every magazine cover, ♪
♪ Showing it off, tattoos and all that ♪
♪ I put that on every song ♪
♪ I have my daughter in Cleveland ♪
♪ So don't tell me
[Indistinct] about this city. ♪
Okay, first off, this intro clip is crazy
'cause one, we were
running from the police
on four-wheelers and dirt bikes, two...
♪ Don't tell me [Indistinct]
about this city ♪
Everyone always thinks
that's from an interview,
that's just me yelling
on the phone at somebody
in a garage,
and my cameraman just happened
to be recording and we took the audio
and we were like, we
should put that on this.
I had taken three years off in between
my first album and my second album
to just have some life experience
to write a great second album, you know?
And I brought "Till I Die" as
the first track to my label
and they were just like,
why would anyone want to hear a song
that's all about Cleveland?
And I think it might've been someone
from my label that I
was on the phone with.
And ironically, Cleveland went on
to win the championship
and this was the theme song of that and we
had 1.3 million people in our downtown.
I was on the float that brought out
all the Cavs champion players
and we heard that song
300,000 times that day.
I'm looking at a double platinum plaque
or a platinum plaque of "Till
I Die" on my wall right now.
Kind of hard that a song that
was so local
reached the world.
[piano music]
That building, the tall
kind of skyscraper,
which was one of the two skyscrapers
that we have in Cleveland,
it's called Tower City.
It's a mall at the bottom of it
and a train station.
I worked at an Airbrush shop in that mall.
If you went to that mall
between the years of 2004,
2005 and 2008,
you definitely got a flyer from me
or a mixtape from me
or an Airbrush t-shirt
or some Airbrush Air
Forces from me, for sure.
Right here where it has the clips
on top of other clips.
This was because we
just had so much footage
and we wanted to use all of it
so we were just like,
even if it wasn't being
seen we were still using it
so that was kind of our
technique right here.
And I think, also,
sometimes we were just making mistakes
that ended up working.
So this was probably a scale size mistake
that ended up just being,
like, oh we should do that.
This is in east Cleveland, right here.
This is right outside of Shaw High School.
Me and my friend Pooh
gutta and my EST family,
we are parked outside Shaw High School
in the back of a flatbed
pickup truck with some speakers
and a microphone.
We brought barbecue
truck to feed everybody
and just put on a block party.
That house right here is where
me and my best friends
we all met at right here.
Legendary house, that place was
where a lot of other artists came through
on the east side to record at.
It tore down now but we went back there
when we were shooting this music video
and we still see our names up there,
all the things that we
had wrote on the ceiling
and, I mean, it was
really a art house to me,
I miss that place.
Yeah, right there, that's
Shaker square that's 128,
where means slim had
an apartment together.
We shared a one bedroom moose.
Like, I mean I could
just reach out like this
and touch his bed.
We were like, sleeping
this close to each other.
We made some really dope beats
and music in that building
until we got kicked out
from noise complaints
and lack of paying.
Sharks, this right off the road.
I went to school Shaker
and another one of the high
schools that you see here
is Kennedy and in between
both those are Sharks,
it's a good place to get food
like this spaghetti ciders.
It's crazy watching this
back because so many people
from this video are locked up or did,
and the city looks so different,
like, they rebuilt a lot of the things
that we're looking at,
they tore down a lot of
things that we're looking at,
it's pretty crazy watching this back.
Oh, yeah, so these intersections,
Knowles ave or Knowles street and Euclid,
all my boys call it Knowles ave
and this is the first time
I think I've ever actually
read the street sign
and I'm looking at it says Knowles street.
So I'm about to call my
boy and be like, homie,
did you ever walk to the corner
and look at the [Indistinct] sign?
It's not Knowles ave.
If you keep watching
past when the song ends
or behind the scenes starts,
and it's me walking through
a lot of the spots that
we had shown in the video
and just kind of
describing what they were.
I mean, it's kind of cool to watch
the house we used to stay in
and our first studio that we recorded at
and where we all kind of
started everything from
'cause, I mean, it's real [Indistinct]
and, I mean, I miss that place
and it's torn down and I saw
this is kind the only
place you can see it.
I have a terrible haircut.
I was shooting movie at the time
and my hair had to be black
and spiked in a Mohawk.
So just look at me from the
brow down, if you could.
Maybe do a little zoom action.
Another screenshot of
us on top of a cop car.
All the cops downtown
are pretty familiar with
me always being down there
and partying and stuff like that.
So this might have
actually been consensual,
I don't remember.
I know for sure I didn't
ask for permission
but I don't think I was asked
to give forgiveness either,
so everyone's on the same page
claiming unity keep the party going.
All right, let's read some comments.
This comment is from Siban Alothman.
"This song makes me want to
get a tattoo of Cleveland
"even though I'm from Syria."
[Indistinct] yes, that's tight.
Put it right here,
the Cleve.
This one is from SB.
"This song makes you feel so hood
"even if you're from China."
Dude, the world's tuned in,
that's crazy Syria and China.
Speaking of China,
I went to the Great Wall of China one time
and played Wu Tang.
Genevieve Tran, cool name.
"He donated 40,000 meals
to a food bank in Cleveland
"during the pandemic last week
"and paid for takeout until close
"at eight local restaurants."
11 local restaurants.
"I'm buying all his music
because he stayed hungry
"but never gets greedy."
Damn, that's poetic.
That's a good reminder to
stay like that for myself.
So that's dope, thank you.
Also facts on everything you said.
This comment is from Ava Reed.
"This music video really shows how much
"black lives matter to him mad respect."
True,
but the coolest part is that
this is just natural and exactly
where and how we grew up.
Again, this was what,
six years ago or five,
yeah, six years ago, I think.
It's pretty cool to see how
the world that we're fighting
for for our generation,
but after us,
we're kind of showing that dream
in this music video
which is from years ago.
Riley jack.
"This song makes me wanna reclaim
the UFC heavyweight strap."
Tight.
You know what's crazy is Stipe Miocic,
the heavyweight champion
walks out to the song
"Till I die" every fight.
I'm a big fan of him as a fighter
and a big fan of him as a man, a human.
He's a great guy.
All right, let's check out "Sail".
This music video
might be my favorite music
video that we've done.
♪ Kells ♪
♪ This is a real rapper's theme music ♪
♪ [Indistinct] sing to it. ♪
This video right here
was like the template for
like, DIY, one take video.
We had spent 420 of my friend's houses
called the hippie hideout at the time.
And it was just the
weirdest layout of a house
with the weirdest [Indistinct].
And I was in the driveway
leaving and I looked at him
I was like, "Do you wanna
direct this music video tomorrow
"to the song I have?"
And I showed up and he had
a obstacle course set up.
I swear to God, all I had
to do was literally like,
alright, we're gonna speed the song up
and all you have to do is walk.
Everything that was in that music video
was literally already at his house.
This was like a common house,
everyone just hang out.
So everyone that was there that day
kinda just got recruited
to be in the music video.
There's a guy who comes and
flips and one of these scenes
if I'm not mistaken.
I always see him out at the
bars randomly and he's like,
"Dude, I was the guy that
flips in the Sail video."
And I'm always like, "Yes, it's so hard."
Oh, the juggle.
That's yeah, look, and he bust a flip,
this is the guy.
So my boys are playing spades right there.
That's like my favorite card game
and we like to play.
That's my boy Mod Son's Cardi.
So the guy who's driving this
is who directed the video.
This is whose house this is.
That's Travis Barker's Cadillac.
That was the first thing my friend did
when he moved to Los Angeles.
He went to Travis Barker
and bought one of his Cadillacs.
The reason I hopped in like that too
is because that passenger
door doesn't open.
Okay, let's go to some comments.
Bill Bixby.
"I used to hate this
dude, but for no reason.
"Then I sat back and listen.
"MGK does do it.
"Great lyrics."
Good job Bill.
I give these people props, man.
I know it's it's gotta be tough.
I don't care about haters or about hate.
I know that most times people just hate me
for literally no reason,
or because of the way I look
or present myself
or because I'm confident.
Their fear is what keeps them
from opening up to me or,
but it's undeniable at this point.
Next comment is from Angelina.
"Anyone in 2020 catch him
shouting out Nipsey Hussle?"
He said,
"And that's where the
Nipsey my Hussle is mean.
"RIP King Nipsey."
When we moved to Los Angeles
that was me and my friend soundtrack.
Like that's all we listened
to was Nipsey mixtapes.
I was just big enough biggin' up Nipsey.
I was always a huge fan.
Ty Reitman, "This guy's legit!
"How come everyone thinks
Rap devil is all he got?"
You my friend are one of the
very basic people that I choose to not.
I'm very sure there's
millions and millions
that see so much other
[Indistinct] that we're doing.
Okay, the next music video
is "Bloody Valentine".
[soft rock music]
I said "Sail" was my favorite music video,
but for other more personal
reasons Bloody Valentine
might now be my favorite video.
[soft rock music]
I known Megan for a couple
months since we met on set
of this movie in Puerto Rico.
You see that green
plaque that's behind her.
It's kind of like an ode to
the song that started out
this whole punk pop wave for me
and kind of for this
generation that's coming up,
like,
so I kinda wanted to just allude to that,
and so we propped it up
and I'm obviously squirming around.
And from the jump,
they're like, "Hey, this
is kind of a stupid place
"to put this
"'cause it might fall on you ."
And I was like, "Dude, I don't care."
And I was squirming around
and the plaque fell off
and literally the corner of it
hit my head like just the
worst place that could
hit from the frame,
split my open I had blood running down.
Megan was my nurse,
and wiped the blood off
and we got back to it.
Thank God it didn't hit her.
Yeah, I'd take that for all day.
We filmed this off Sunset Boulevard.
I was actually showing Megan these houses
and I was gonna go with a different house
and right before we we got the house,
she hit me back and was
like, no, I like the vibe,
I don't like the vibe of this
one energy there isn't it,
like we should do this one.
And so I went with her gut feeling
and we showed up to the house
and it was perfect dude,
it was the one and they had a song.
What the [Indistinct]?
♪ My bloody valentine tonight ♪
It's no secret I think feet are beautiful,
and I think Megan has the most
beautiful feet that exist.
This was right before we moved
the locations in the
house to somewhere else.
And I was like Megan,
you already know what
I'm about to ask you.
And she was like,
yeah, I literally got a pedicure
just 'cause I knew you
were gonna ask me that.
So I was like, all right, well,
prop it on.
[man laughs]
♪ Let's play pretend ♪
I actually brought the physical guitar
that she was playing from the shoot
with me here.
It says I'm selling
tickets to my downfall.
Kind of self explanatory to
the nosedive that I was in
while I was recording this album
and people turning up in
mass amounts to watch it.
You would think that people wanna see
the takeoff or the landing
but people, they wanna to see the crash.
Everything from this
video for the most part
was all stuff that I personally
use or wear every day.
So this is the guitar that I like to play,
here's the jacket that she's wearing.
This is one of my jackets,
it's probably my favorite
or my second favorite
leather that I have.
Okay, it's time for some comments.
Tafaria.
"The movie Jennifer's body in
three minutes and 33 seconds."
Facts.
I talk to Megan about that all the time.
Even just the memes that
emerged from Jenifer's body
is a testament to her
art as a existing human
'cause like she can just literally
hold a lighter up to her tongue like this
and it just travels for generations.
It's like this iconic image.
And she brought that same energy
to Bloody Valentine shoot.
Avi Singh.
"Is it just my ears or is MGK putting
"on a bit of a British
singing voice when he sings?"
No, not love.
No, not a [indistict] bit,
but maybe on other songs.
'Cause I have caught myself
doing some British sometimes.
I have a lot of British friends
and I'm in London a lot.
So if I'm getting a
little too British to say,
hey, dial it back.
I am guilty of going to
London and coming back
and being British for a week.
Like it does take me a sec to wear it off.
Olivia.
"Listened to this song so much
"it's unhealthy at this point."
Yeah, I actually am
putting on my stethoscope
and I'm checking Olivia's.
Yeah, Olivia,
you're not only very healthy
but apparently the MGK in you has
boosted immune system capabilities
to its maximum potential and
Dr. Gun says that you're
perfectly healthy,
so keep on playing BV.
Dr. Winslow.
What'%s the [Indistinct]?
What's the [Indistinct]?
Did they, that's crazy.
I'm sorry Dr. Winslow,
I'ma on put my fake stethoscope away,
I didn't mean to
interfere with your field.
That's so Weird.
All right, Dr. Winslow, let's
see what you got to say.
I feel like MGK has been
using fake stethoscopes,
what the fuck, just kidding.
"I feel like MGK is in
a positive atmosphere
"when he does the genre of music.
"Nothing seems forced and comes natural.
"Looks like he's actually having fun."
Thank you.
I'm always in a positive atmosphere
when my art is being made.
So as long as there's
something coming out for me
I hope that you'll continue
to give those things chances.
Okay, the last video of
our trip is "Bad things".
[upbeat music]
We filmed this video
in, I think Paterson, New Jersey,
right in the middle of the hood,
like, there was a point
we were shooting this
I remember the whole neighborhood came out
'cause it was,
the video was disrupting,
one of the assistant directors was like
walking down the street yelling at people,
like, "Get back in your houses,
we're filming we need that street empty."
And I'm like, bro,
you didn't talk to nobody on this block,
like, you know what I mean?
Like they're respecting it right now
'cause they're just confused like,
okay, what are we,
but I guarantee you when
someone finds out, like, oh,
we're just posted inside
waiting for them to
finish this music video,
someone's going to be
like [Indistinct] this
and yeah, so I actually
had to go and talk to
the head dude on the block
and just be like,
Yo, what's up dude?
Like, I'm Machine Gun Kelly,
can I know who you are,
what's going on, there is this this video,
we'll be done in an hour,
you know what I mean?
Like just just let us rock.
And he was like,
"Yo I respect you for
coming up and talking to me.
"You guys got it."
So he looked out
and we finished filming
the video that night.
♪ So good that you can't explain it ♪
♪ What can I say it's complicated ♪
Clearly the song is a
dark, twisted love story
between two people that are toxic.
My mind So this way,
Camilla's mind is so this way
that we had to find a
way to meet in the middle
and tell a toxic love story
that made sense for both of us
and so I mean, that was
what we got with this video.
That's the younger me and
that's the younger Camila.
That kid is so rad
and I'd be curious to see
what he's doing right now.
'Cause it's almost like
four or five years ago.
This kid's probably like
such a dope 15 year old
swaggy kid right now.
He came up to me
and he rapped the whole bad
things verse off top to me.
♪ The way we love ♪
The story was that me and
these guys would go out
and hit liqs on, you know,
properties of people,
and I'm kind of like,
"Yo, I really love this girl
"and this is not the path I'm trying to go
"and I gotta step away."
And the guys weren't messing with that.
All right, let's look for some
comments for "Bad Things".
Nurul Wajihah.
"You know, I'm still waiting
"for the continuation for the song
"because I remember at one interview
"MGK said there's going
to be another part,
"but where is it?"
You gotta ask the director for that
and Camila's team for that,
'cause that ending was my favorite ending
and exactly how the music
video should have ended.
In a real toxic love situation,
the endings aren't always predictable
and the endings aren't always happy.
This comment is from Ello.
Ello.
Ello.
[Indistinct] he's back again.
Hello.
British girls.
British gun.
"Am I the only one who realized
the choruses was pulled
"from a fastball song?
"I like what they did with it."
You know what's funny to me?
One of the fans, I saw a tweet he goes,
"Can't believe you would steal
a hook from a duh duh duh."
I'm just like, dude,
hello, have you listened
to Kanye West or Dipset
or anything else growing up.
Sampling is recycling
something that was great
to make it appeal to a new
generation or a new audience,
you know what I mean?
Being inspired by it,
and then also literally giving the credit
and clearing the song.
Ello, you caught a little
bit of heat that I had
been holding inside for four or five years
towards one person.
So I'm sorry Ello,
you're very nice and the way
you said it, it was nice.
So thank you.
Kendrik Doughty.
"Is it bad that this
song runs through my head
"whenever I'm arguing with my girlfriend?"
[man laughs]
Oh, my God.
Yes dude, that's super dark.
You should not wanna do any
bad things to your girlfriend
when you're arguing.
Oh my God,
Someone go to Kendrik Doughty's house
and remove this song from
his playlist right now.
Put the [Indistinct] orange
mocha frappuccino song on there
from Zoolander and put that on repeat.
That's all you need to listen to
when you're arguing with your girlfriend.
[man mumble sings]
[fingers flapping]
♪ I [Indistinct] your guts
but the song is good. ♪
♪ I gotta [man mumble sings]. ♪
Nick Swanson.
"Is it just me or does this video
"seem to have a lot of
aspects from "Baby Driver"?"
That would be just you.
This music video came out
way before "Baby Driver".
So, Goddammit Nick
Swanson you're so wrong.
Don't, fat do your research man.
I'm just kidding.
But you are wrong, I love you to death.
Never seen "Baby driver".
Destiny Nunez.
"This song tells such a good story.
"They can just make a TV show or movie
"based on the songs meaning."
I think there is some movies
that kind of are based off of this.
Have you ever seen "Sid and Nancy"?
Also very dark.
Maybe not a bed time movie.
However, toxic relationship.
Maybe like "The Notebook"
but the [Indistinct] Notebook.
"The Notebook" where
Ryan Gosling does drugs.
He's just cranky the whole
time has no serotonin
and he's just waking up
at [indistinct] 1 Pm.
Alright guys, thank you for watching
some of my old music videos with me.
It actually was not as painful
as I thought it was gonna be.
Your comments are very nice.
And also thank you Teen Vogue
for not showing me all the bad comments.
I know you had to scroll through
to find these good ones.
That's love.
For everyone out there watching,
go to bed right now.
We're done.
Thank you, I love you.
Bye.
