Machine Gun Kelly arrested
Diddy’s newest signee Machine Gun Kelly sure knows how to mobilize his fans, but after organizing a flash mob in Cleveland, Ohio’s South Park Mall on Saturday – August 20 – MGK was taken away in cuffs and charged with disorderly conduct.
It all started on Friday when MGK tweeted “I’m thinking about doing a flash mob at a mall or something tomorrow lol cleveland should we do one while I’m home?”
The next day, Kelly tweeted: “Today we flash mob NO MATTER WHAT! 5pm at SouthPark mall in the foodcourt, wear disguises, dont move to you hear ‘Cleveland” play then RAGE!”
The Associated Press reported that a group of fans gathered Saturday. Mall management asked Kelly and two other people who were standing on a table to step down and when they refused the police were called and the rookie rapper was arrested. MGK however is no longer in custody.
After he was released Kells went back to the social messaging network to recap the day’s events – “All yall industry cats, yall wanna see a REAL movement? Holler at my fans. Today was a statement. EST till the death, lace up. Cult sh–.”
On August 3, Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared on “RapFix Live” and announced to fans that he had signed Machine Gun Kelly to his Bad Boy record label. “He has just such a movement, just hundreds and thousands of loyal fans that came from the place he came from in different parts of the country” – Diddy gushed. “He wasn’t always the coolest kid in school, and just the process of growing up and the problems that they all encounter, they relate to him in such a way.”
Machine Gun Kelly.
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly has been accused of organised a flash mob at a suburban Ohio mall. He is charged with disorderly conduct.
Police say the group gathered Saturday, and mall management asked three people standing on a table near a second-floor railing to step down. Kelly was among the three. When they refused, police were called.
Police say they’re no longer in custody. Kelly, real-name Colson Baker, tweeted later that “today was a statement.”
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs told MTV this month that he signed Kelly, an Ohio native, to his Bad Boy Records label.
It all started on Friday when MGK tweeted “I’m thinking about doing a flash mob at a mall or something tomorrow lol cleveland should we do one while I’m home?” – MTV reported.
The next day, Kelly tweeted: “Today we flash mob NO MATTER WHAT! 5pm at SouthPark mall in the foodcourt, wear disguises, dont move to you hear ‘Cleveland’ play then RAGE!”
The Associated Press reported that a group of fans gathered Saturday. Mall management asked Kelly and two other people who were standing on a table to step down and when they refused the police were called and the rookie rapper was arrested. MGK however is no longer in custody.
After he was released Kells went back to the social messaging network to recap the day’s events – “All yall industry cats, yall wanna see a REAL movement? Holler at my fans. Today was a statement. EST till the death, lace up. Cult sh## ‘Machine Gun’ was the nickname of George Kelly, a Prohibition-era gangster.”
Bad Boy’s newest inductee (Machine Gun Kelly) was arrested Saturday and charged with disorderly conduct after organizing a flash mob at a Cleveland, Ohio mall.
The plans began Friday when Kelly tweeted: “I’m thinking about doing a flash mob at a mall or something tomorrow lol cleveland should we do one while I’m home?”
The next day he let fans know that “Today we flash mob NO MATTER WHAT! 5pm at SouthPark mall in the foodcourt, wear disguises, dont move to you hear ‘Cleveland’ play then RAGE!”
The Associated Press reports that fans showed up at South Park Mall, but when Kelly and two others ignored mall management’s orders to step down from a table, police were called in, they were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
He then returned to Twitter at the end of the day to give his thoughts on the incident.
“All yall industry cats, yall wanna see a REAL movement? Holler at my fans. Today was a statement. EST till the death, lace up. Cult s–t.”
On August 3 – Sean “Diddy” Combs announced on RapFix Live that he’d signed Kelly onto his Bad Boy Records label noting that the rapper has a movement and thousands of fans who can relate to the obstacles he faced while growing up.