Machine Gun Kelly has been caught “on the grid” at a recent F1 race — but it was his interview with a British sportscaster that had social media abuzz.
Martin Brundle, who works for Sky News, used to be an F1 driver himself, and has gotten attention in the past for occasionally-awkward celebrity exchanges during races — as happened earlier this year with model and actress Cara Delevingne, who turned the reporter’s interview request down on camera. On Sunday (November 5), Brundle caught the “Bad Things” rapper at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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Unfortunately for Brundle, MGK was in a bit of a strange mood, as was demonstrated in the awkward exchange. After having to repeat himself several times before getting an answer about the state of the rapper’s career — “Oh, my career. I don’t think about my career” — Machine Gun Kelly gave Brundle very general thoughts about the actual sport of F1 racing.
“I think your business is great. It’s loud, your life is on the line, and that’s exciting,” he said. “I was in a studio the other week and Lewis Hamilton was in the other studio. That was nice, yeah.”
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MGK then asked Brundle to do an “air piano and air guitar collaboration right now,” which seemed to only confuse the TV host.
Check out the exchange below.
The responses on Twitter seemed to criticize both participants. “1. How are you gonna ask that man to do anything with his hands while he’s holding a microphone? 2. I don’t think about MGK’s career either,” wrote one commenter, referring to MGK. “What a complete waste of a grid pass, i think its maybe his nap time,” wrote another commenter of Brundle.
Machine Gun Kelly has been in the headlines for a variety of reasons lately. In addition to recently punching a fan in the face and confronting a stage-crasher, he — alongside Eminem — was on a mass shooter’s hit list over the summer.
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21-year-old Ryan Palmeter murdered two men, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr (19) and Jerrald Gallion (29), and one woman, Angela Michelle Carr (52), at a Dollar General on August 26 before turning the gun on himself.
In writings reviewed by Rolling Stone, the shooter stated his desire to kill both Eminem and MGK in racist and homophobic diatribes.
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“Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers, aka Slim Shady aka Ken Keniff, aka the white guy from D12): Stared the abyss (being n-ggerdly) and the abyss stared back (becoming a n-gger),” he wrote in one passage. “Walks the edge of n-gger lover and honorary n-gger.
“Fell off not because his new stuff sucked but because the lyrics were gay annoying liberal shit. ROE for Total N-gger Death is to include Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers, aka Slim Shady aka Ken Keniff, aka the white guy from D12) as a valid target and he is to be killed on sight.”
Palmeter then mentioned Machine Gun Kelly, and suggested he may have once been near the rapper.
“Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly): Honorable n-gger,” he wrote. “To be killed on sight like Eminem because I didn’t get a shot at him up in Ohio.”
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FBI Director Christopher Wray mentioned the shooter’s writings during a briefing call with law enforcement and community leaders on August 28.
He said the investigation “reveals the perpetrator of Saturday’s attack through his own writings, through the references he made, and through his actions, make clear his intentions, his actions, his motivations, his hate.”
