“I am weed,” is what he told Megan Fox when they met. This is the story of Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly, who presented a film inspired by his life, “Taurus,” at the Tribeca Festival. #Tribeca2022
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00:00You said to me,
00:01You smell like weed.
00:02And I said,
00:03I am weed.
00:04And then,
00:06you vanished.
00:25Is your name Colson Baker?
00:26Yes.
00:27Do you go by the name Machine Gun Kelly?
00:30Yes.
00:32Are you nervous?
00:33Yes.
00:34Are you worried that you might incriminate yourself during this interview?
00:38Absolutely.
01:00We're just a town of people who just love to make a big deal out of stuff that really
01:19isn't that big of a deal.
01:21Am I right, Cleveland?
01:30And this is, as he said, where the KellyVision mixtape will be recorded at.
01:37You know, we got the mic going, we got right here, we got a little thing for your head,
01:41you know, get a little instrument.
01:43Hey, hey, you know, you got a little bumper car for you.
01:45You know what I'm saying?
01:56Yes, it is me behind this mask.
01:59I'm looking like Grey's Anatomy right now.
02:01I'm about to deliver my first shot.
02:09This is our first Kids' Choice Awards, and I have the most beautiful date ever, so.
02:13Did that make him like the coolest dad ever?
02:16Yeah.
02:18Whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:18I was already the coolest dad ever.
02:28I came from wrapping burritos, mopping floors, pushing carts, cleaning toilets, you know
02:41what I'm saying, to being given a bottle of some fancy champagne by Puff Daddy.
02:46You can't, as a world, expect to break people down constantly and not expect them to want
03:04some type of escape.
03:16It's just from this authentic place of me being like, you know, all this attention came
03:26when bad things happened and everyone was like, oh, but you're this and you're this.
03:30And it's like, yeah, dude, I'm human.
03:31Like, who cares?
03:32Like, I have flaws.
03:45I'm not gonna be 46 years old, dog.
03:55Talk about, I'm gonna call up Trick Trick.
03:57Man, you sound like a b****.
03:58Man, I can handle your s***.
04:00So before you die, let's see who can out-petty who with your corny lines.
04:03Slim your rolls.
04:03Al Kelly, ooh, but I'm 45 and I'm still outselling you.
04:16Oh, my God.
04:16Those are my pants.
04:17But they look so much better on me.
04:40Me and Travis would go on runs together and like, he would be getting my mental together
04:45with that beer.
04:45I'm like, nah, like, you know, just real OG stuff.
04:48I'm like, now we go to grocery stores and get fresh juices together.
04:54I really watched him grow all the way, you know, to the end, to like the last few months
04:59where he's fallen in love and this relationships means more than anything to him.
05:14This is our first date and that's, yeah, that's her climbing down off of a dangerous
05:21three-story balcony in heels.
05:23Why?
05:23It's not something I started with him just because he's such a flamboyant dresser that
05:27I can't really pull off the, just like the sweatpants and the yoga gear anymore.
05:31I have to like elevate myself to his level.
05:44It's so brutal.
05:50It is so like, it's such a diary of someone going in and out of like sanity and like,
05:57and vanity and all of these other things.
06:15Here, there's no hiding.
06:20He's as close to who he is, warts and all, and he embraced it and went even further.
06:28It's almost like looking at a mirror or something, like a mirror of what could happen
06:34if you make the wrong, choose the wrong path.