MGK faces backlash for resurfaced comment fetishising Black women

2022-04-02 08:12:44 By : Ms. Lisa Xue

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It comes just weeks after an old clip showed him sexualising a then-underage Kendall Jenner

Machine Gun Kelly – real name Colson Baker – is facing fresh backlash for comments he made about Black women in a resurfaced clip. In the video, which is from a 2012 interview, MGK makes a series of sexual comments about Black women, of which he is now facing criticism for.

"I’m sorry I have to give a trigger warning for this one. This video of MGK is disturbing," tweeted musician Alice Glass who posted the clip. "Why, as a white man, would you ever talk like this? Fetishizing Black women and in such a disrespectful way!?"

The clip opens with the interviewer telling MGK: "You recently tweeted that you like chocolate milk... I’m chocolate, you know." In response MGK, who was 22-years-old at the time, says: "Black girls give the best head."

He went on, "This is what y’all do. Y’all either give the best head, or you say you don’t give head... White girls, they just give head, you know... Most of y’all [Black girls] say, 'I don’t do that unless you’re my man'."

Replying to the video, one person claimed that MGK had "answered pretty offensively" adding that he had applied "stereotypes". Elsewhere on Twitter, one critic said that the musician came across as "entitled".

But some people, including the Black woman who interviewed MGK in the clip, jumped to the musician's defence. "This is me in the video. Girl give it a rest. I asked him a question and he answered," the interviewer tweeted. "The end. I didn’t ask for you to put on a cape on my behalf. I’ll holler if I need you."

Other fans pointed out that the video is almost a decade old, and questioned whether MGK's dated comments should be held against him now. "This video is from 10 years ago when the world was a different place and things we said weren’t held over our head," tweeted one person, with someone else saying: "It's his opinion that was from 2012."

The resurfaced clip comes to light just weeks after MGK faced criticism for sexual comments he made about Kendall Jenner whilst she was underage. In the video, which was originally posted in 2013, MGK says that Jenner (who was 17 at the time) is his celebrity crush, but states that he is "not waiting til she's 18."

Cosmopolitan UK has reached out to Machine Gun Kelly's representatives for comment.