“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.”
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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.]
MicrocRAP, what up!
I wonder if he can rap…. Developers! Developers! Developers! with something while he is ranting…. Oh wait, someone else has already done that.
Just a rapping thought.
No taste company hires a rapper instead of a musician. Sucks to be them.
-jcr
Microsoft has no class, never has, never will.
Kanye West similarly lacks class, but he cost too much for MS.
“No taste company hires a rapper instead of a musician”
+1
1-Running one’s mouth over a drum machine does not music make.
2-Sampling is stealing.
Chrysler hired Eminem for that super bowl commercial last year and that turned out pretty well.
But Eminem is actually talented (so is Kanye but has become a complete unmitigated ass)
Machine Gun Kelly isn’t talented is a total asshole and has an ego the size of Kanye’s (without the actual accomplishments) He was a perfect fit for MS, I think.
Hey asshole, for one if you actually watch MGK’s interviews he is extremely down to earth. Or if you’re lucky and get to meet him like me you will also see he doesn’t have a huge ego. So If I were you I wouldn’t judge people on videos and such. Actually get to know them.
And for two: he is extrememly talented. I’m sorry if he doesn’t rap about sex, money, hoes and bitches, or gangs and whatever else these shit hole other rappers make music about. His shit is about his life and struggles. Just like some other rapper I know. I think Eminem, no wait I know it’s Em, so do you. So next time you decide to be a prick and judge someone off of videos and shit, don’t because it only makes you look stupid.
and did you forget how that commercial went?
“this is the motor city, and this is what we do” thats ALL he said….
watch it again if you have too. he’s not rapping in the video, he’s driving the car… while someone else speaks… Eminem has 1 line at the end.
Chrysler also was not hiring Eminem for a live event. It could tightly control what he said or did, and not pay him if he refused to perform as contracted. Plus, Eminem has huge pride in being from Detroit, so it was an opportunity for him to support and show love for his hometown.
Agreed. I think there are mature adults and dummies in every industry. Microsoft took a big risk, but thats what you have to do when your down. When football teams are loosing they throw deep passes and when they are winning they run the ball. Microsoft needs a Hail Mary.
Classic! Microsoft needs a performance to have people walk into their stores, and it backfired on them. At Apple, people go into their stores for the products (weird concept – huh, Microsoft), not for a show.
For the record, Apple Stores, at the least ones with theaters, have always had musical performances.
Haha classy shit MicroSoft. I bet MGK goes and buys an iPad afterwards.
Easy to do since Microsoft Stores always face Apple Stores.
I bet he has one already. When he said “fuck these computers”, he probably meant “THESE computers” !
What we’ve all just witnessed is what happens when a Windoze sufferer suddenly wakes up from their Stockholm Syndrome, surrounded by his oppressors.
Not a pretty sight!
+1!
Hilarious! Great show. He made the best of a crappy gig at a crappy store and got free publicity in the process.
The WOW stars now
The HOLY COW starts now!
The AWWWWW starts now!
Wow, Microsoft got what they deserved.
I’d be pissed if Apple had invited that dude to “sing” at their store! Especially if I had my kids with me!!! Typical for Microsoft though…
I think this guy is a perfect example of a windows sufferer. I know I feel like screaming “f*ck these computers and sh*t” when I’m stuck using windows for a long enough stretch of time!
Did you hear the kids crying after everything was shut off? Probably much too loud/crazy for them. If I was dumb enough to set foot in a MS store I’d have stepped right out.
MSFT knows their clientele. Sadly.
You sure that wasn’t Steve Bomer in black-face?
He’s white.
Dude, the asshole is white. And wasn’t Machine Gun Kelly an old AM radio DJ?
he’s 22 just looked it up. didn’t see anything about him being a radio guy.
although the “real” machine gun kelly was a mobster back in the 30-40’s. it’s what came up first when I searched.
MGK wasn’t a DJ. He got his name when he was 15 or 16 because of his fast flow. Just incase you were wondering.
No, he was just doing a Steve Ballmer imitation, not a bad one either!
Is this really how far American “entertainment” has fallen?
Even if it were anywhere else, it would be pathetic.
I agree, very sad. Entertaining no one but himself.
I’d really like to kick that wigger’s ass.
Didn’t anyone have a piece?
OMG! Hahahahaha….what idiot decided to hire this guy? There is a reason Apple guest at Keynotes are, well, to put it mildly, Acclaimed Musical Artist.
The bystanders were video capturing the event on their iPhones. Why they were laughing so hard.
Wha a pathetic exibition of American culture!
I can’t believe there are actually people in the MS Store………! Amazing… amazing…
MSFT knows how to attract a crowd – free concert tickets or a second rate “singer”.
That is awful Microsoft should be ashamed.
And somebody should have popped a cap in his ass!
I would like to have seen more stomping-on-craptops action. Now THAT at least would be entertaining.
Ha ha I agree, plus the guy laughing in the background makes this Juggalo hilarious to the nTH degree! In fact the Insane Clown Posse can add him as a new member. This guy just needed to have shaken and opened a can of Faygo on to those laptops!
As you can hear in the video, the laughs are on Microsoft! LOL
That was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. The visual definition of poetic justice. I thank deeply, whoever is responsible, as does Apple. Atomic beauty.
No it wasn’t. It was an embarrassment to the human race.
Sub human.
Thx. I feel better.
No it wasn’t. If you only knew… asshole
MS Manager: We need to get in touch with the hip hop youth with this store opening.
MS Employee 1: We should get a rapper, the youth loves rap.
MS Employee 2: Not just any rapper, a young one, one of their own.
MS Employee 3: And a White rapper, too, like Vanilla Ice!
MS Manager: Vanilla Ice, that dude’s so fly!
Customer: My name is Richard… you guys need one that cusses a lot. And will grab is crouch and flip people off. I know this guy, he’s done a few Apple Store Openings.
MS Manager: Really, he did Apple Store Openings.
Samsung Manager: Well, if Apple used him, let’s use him too.
Richard: Sweet, I will book him, he’ll love it. He loves doing Store Openings, really, loves it! (Whispering to his buddy, yo, this is goin Viral, man.)
MS Manager: Yes, no questions asked. Do it!
Well at least everybody with a Windows phone, Blackberry or Android could FIND the concert. My friends with iPhones all got lost. Wonder why? 🙂
Because Motorola gave them an address that doesn’t exist.
They just tell you they got lost so they can avoid seeing you.
Machine Gun Kelly next gig to be at Google Android tablet launch
Holy shit that’s funny!
If Microsoft would spend as much time making great product as they do trying to cool they could be relevant. Whoever does there marketing should be fired…..