Best of 2021: Machine Gun Kelly

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Willie looks back on his memorable interviews of the year. Machine Gun Kelly started his music career as a rapper, but it was his latest #1 punk album Tickets to My Downfall that launched the hard-edged musician to superstardom. In this “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the artist to talk about that move to punk after four successful hip-hop albums and his discomfort with the spotlight at the top of the music world.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another special edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast where
0:07.2	I am bringing you with the end of another year my favorite conversations from 2021.
0:13.9	As you listen to this conversation with music superstar, machine gun Kelly, you might be
0:19.0	asking yourself, why would Willie choose this as one of his favorite conversations?
0:23.6	Will it really and truly was?
0:25.8	It did get off to a rocky start.
0:27.7	I can't lie about that.
0:29.5	Some GK had a big show in Central Park the night before I was there with my wife and
0:33.9	my kids who absolutely love him, know every word to his songs.
0:38.4	He didn't feel like the show went very well.
0:40.9	He came in, let's say, less than thrilled to be doing the interview.
0:45.6	So after we got through a couple of questions where he didn't say much, I thought, let's
0:49.3	give them an a break.
0:50.3	Maybe he's not ready.
0:51.6	He didn't love that.
0:52.8	So we kind of grappled, we grind through the beginning of it, but when we come out the
0:58.4	other side, a place I think where we kind of understood each other, we had a great conversation
1:04.2	about his life, about his career, about where he is right now, about wanting to be heard,
1:10.6	about his relationship with Megan Fox.
1:14.3	So yes, you're going to hear and go, oh, maybe a little cringey at the beginning, but hang
1:18.2	in with me because it truly ended up being one of my favorite conversations.
1:22.4	Sometimes you got to just stay in it.
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