MGK Claims That He’s As Impactful As Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, & Pop Smoke In 2020

Machine Gun Kelly (@machinegunkelly) has had a very successful 2020, and argues he hasn’t gotten the credit that he deserves. His album Tickets to My Downfall hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and his unique sound broke genre barriers. He also made advancements in the television and movie industries, featuring in several this year.

The conversation arose when Carl Chery tweeted: Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Pop Smoke own 2020. MGK responded with a tweet arguing his influence in the music industry this year should make him a viable candidate. See his reply below.

then my #1 album
first week sales
and breaking the genre box we as artist’s are put into will gladly jump in this conversation then…

as well as being the forefront of creating a format for quarantine videos and music
which has been the entire 2020.

— blonde don (@machinegunkelly) October 28, 2020

Carl Chery went on to respond to MGK’s tweet saying he was including all genres of music, not just rap. It just so happens that Lil Baby, Roddy Rich and Pop Smoke are all rap artists. Although the Texas born singer has a point, Carl Chery still doesn’t think it is enough to be considered at the forefront of music in 2020.

One last time, Carl Chery went on to prove his point by saying Roddy Rich’s song “The Box” is the song of the year, at #1 for 4 weeks. Lil Baby was #1 for 5 weeks and his album was the only double platinum of the year, and Chery also called him “King of Features”. Lastly, Pop Smoke debuted at #1 and went back to #1 3 months later. He finished off with “Only a select few can be in that convo”.

No response was made by MGK after that, perhaps because Chery’s specific list did yield some similarities. MGK definitely deserves some recognition for the year he has had.

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