Machine Gun Kelly has spoken about his latest collaboration with Bob Dylan, and mentioned that he has “no concept” the way it got here collectively.
It was first suspected that the 2 had joined forces in June, when the rapper-turned-rocker shared a teaser video for his upcoming LP ‘Misplaced Americana’ – which is ready for launch on August 8.
Within the clip, a voice considered Dylan’s was heard calling the upcoming album “a private excavation of the American dream”, but it surely wasn’t confirmed to be the songwriting legend till later.
MGK would then affirm the cameo throughout an interview on Right now, quipping that it got here out of “pure desperation” and him “simply knocking on [Dylan’s] door relentlessly, not going away”.
Now, he has made an look on The Tonight Present and advised Jimmy Fallon extra about how the partnership took place.
“Properly, to be trustworthy, I don’t need to mess my friendship up,” MGK responded when requested if he was pals with the music icon, giving his finest Dylan impersonation.
“To be trustworthy, I do not know how he even is aware of who I’m to today,” he then admitted. “And I’m fairly certain that if I say the incorrect factor, I’ll mess all of it up, so I’ll simply shut up and settle for no matter Bob Dylan throws my manner.”
He then went on to additional share his disbelief that Bob Dylan had agreed to work with him to advertise the brand new report. “One thing’s occurring within the stars the place, like, good issues preserve occurring… I don’t know the way it retains occurring,” he shared.
“Then Bob Dylan, who’s the king of simply getting all the skin noise out and trusting what’s inside stamps… I don’t know, I really feel like he’s simply in on some large cosmic joke.”
The correlation between Dylan and MGK follows Dylan leaving some followers confused earlier this yr when he shared footage of the rap/rock singer performing reside on Instagram. It got here as a shock, as, for essentially the most half, the music veteran’s social media web page has solely seen posts regarding his upcoming reside exhibits and an assortment of clips from outdated motion pictures.
Within the footage, MGK was seen performing an acoustic set on the Park Ave CDs retailer in Orlando, Florida. There don’t appear to be any ties within the set to Dylan, and with no caption included, it by no means grew to become fairly clear why it was uploaded.
Later, the 2 musicians lastly met throughout the LA cease of Willie Nelson’s ‘Outlaw Music Pageant Tour’, the place MGK made an look onstage with Billie Strings, John Stamos, and Johnny Knoxville.
As for different MGK information, the artist made headlines when he and Megan Fox revealed the identify of their child daughter, following some confusion from followers.
For Dylan, the collaboration with MGK comes across the similar time as him saying a string of UK and Eire dates for his ongoing ‘Tough And Rowdy Methods’ tour, set to happen in November.
