Machine Gun Kelly Explains Why He Got a Massive Blackout Tattoo, Covering Up His Existing Tats
Machine Gun Kelly is opening up about his blackout tattoo!
The 35-year-old musician debuted his new ink, covering up his old tattoos with a larger blackout tat back in February 2024.
Now, a year and half later, MGK is explaining why got the massive blackout coverup.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I’ve realized through research that this is actually from someone who has extremely high anxiety,” he said during a recent appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show. “But in my head, it really interested me in redesigning the anatomy.”
“You know the skin is the largest organ that we have,” MGK continued. “I’ve already had all tattoos since I was 13, my whole body has been covered for a long time, and I just wanted to redesign what the human skin could look like, so I came up with, well I didn’t, but a friend of mine named Roxx came up with this.”
He then added how painful it was to get it done.
“It was the worst torture I’ve ever…” he said. “Yeah, I don’t do, like, the going under and numbing and waking up, I don’t do any of that. Yeah, I had to focus out, big mistake, but my morals stand. But I kept my daughter’s tattoo. She did a little tattoo on me, so I kept that there.”
MGK recently released his seventh album, Lost Americana, which continues his trajectory in the rock space, but he’s also planning a return to rap.
Last month, the artist opened up about how he thinks his next rap album will be his “greatest” one yet. See what he said!