“Before today, many people might never have heard of the rapper Machine Gun Kelly. In fact, some might not have even heard of Microsoft stores,” Andres Jauregui reports for The Huffington Post. “But following what might prove to be an expensive debacle at an Atlanta, Ga., mall, chances are that the two entities will be forever linked, albeit in the footnotes of tech retail history.”
“Machine Gun Kelly played a raucous gig at the Microsoft store at Lenox Square Mall on Friday, but organizers got way more than they bargained for,” Jauregui reports. “During his performance of “Hold On (Shut up),” MGK hopped up on display tables that had several laptop computers on them and began stomping around and swearing.”
“‘Fuck these computers and shit. MGK’s in this bitch,’ the rapper says in the video below. While the behavior is nothing surprising at a rap show, it appears that the Microsoft store wasn’t prepared for it,” Jauregui reports. “In videos of the incident, which were shot from several different angles, the 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Richard Colson Baker, can be seen tossing a promotional sign and drawing the ire of Microsoft store employees. A camera even captured the rapper flipping off a woman in the crowd.”
WARNING, NSFW: Contains explicit language and gestures:
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MacDailyNews Take: Finally someone found a good use for Windows craptops: Wiping your feet on them. When closed, most of them look like bathroom scales anyway, so maybe Machine Gun was just trying to see how his diet’s going?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Double07” for the heads up.]
You Stay Classy Microsoft
Actually, he was just doing a Steve Ballmer impersonation. I’m not really at all surprised.
Oh dear. Steve Jobs would invite Bob Dylan or Nora Jones.
Somebody at MSFT decided.ot was OK to invite this “dude”.
The really says a lot about the two companies.
I guess when one cannot sing or play an instrument one jumps around like someone off their meds, wave your hands like you are trading in the pit in Chicago, swear like a sailor and run your mouth like a drunk getting thrown out of a bar.
There used to be a stripper that went by the same name in Memphis- at least she entertained the crowd.
Microsoft could have at least hired a decent rapper like Snoop Dogg. Just out of curiousity i will check to see if the rapper is on itunes
You seriously think Snoop can rap? Wow…
What’s with the white boy trying way too hard to be a black dude.
Pathetic. Like M$
You’re dead on. Reminds me of Pat Boone
stealing from Little Richard.
FYI he isn’t trying to be black… It all he grew up around. He knows he’s white and he embrasses it. So fuck all you judgemental asshole. It’s not your position not right to judge ANYONE.
Is this Microsofts idea of ‘keeping it real?’
…A camera even captured the rapper flipping off a woman in the crowd
All of which supports my theory that Microsoft victims are sadomasochists. 😉
Jesus! If this is music, I’m the Archbishop of Canterbury. Even my kids balked at this shite.
This crap hurt my ears so badly I’m going to need several hours of remedial listening therapy just to wash away the foul sensations in my brain. Count Basie, Buddy Rich and Miles Davis should do the trick… oh, and a smattering of Charles Ives and Kaikoshru Sorabji.
=:~)
Did you notice the iPhones being used to take pictures? Promo fail.
Wow… the pretention on this thread is funny… it’s still high for general human, but low for an apple site article with Microsoft on it…
what’s more amazing is that people gravitate to the personality types that validate their own. so when you put dbag 1 with dbag 2 they agree on such a level that doesn’t produce any level of respectable content for discussion. only wow I’m so glad you are in compliance with how I see the world. let us go “educate people” by which I mean tell them they are ignorant if they do not agree with our choices. and thus the internet was born giving means to trolls to touch one another.
Custom built- custom life. no major company can lay claim.
I see that the neggas had a good laugh seeing this white cow trying to be black. Also Ballmer would have done a better job in entertainging the crowds with his monkey dance.
FYI he isn’t trying to be black… It all he grew up around. He knows he’s white and he embrasses it. So fuck all you judgemental asshole. It’s not your position not right to judge ANYONE. Fucking assholes.