Following his father's departure, Baker stopped attending school and began to make a name for himself by calling out elder classmates. In , his father returned to take them both to Kuwait before the pair were forced back stateside to Cleveland, where Baker attended Shaker Heights High School.
While attending Shaker Heights High, he convinced a local t-shirt shop owner to become his manager, as the shop owner would double as an MC manager. In March , while he was on the verge of getting evicted, Baker traveled to Harlem's Apollo Theater, where he had consecutive victories, making him the first ever rapper to win at the Apollo Theater.
In February , he released his second mixtape Words and Running , where he derived his catchphrase, "Lace Up", which started as a mixtape interlude, before making it a prominent reference in his music. Despite his rising popularity, Baker found himself working at Chipotle Mexican Grill to afford rent, as well as being kicked out by his father after graduating high school.
He soon also became a father to Cassie Colson Baker. In May , he made his national debut with the single "Alice in Wonderland" , which was released on iTunes and accompanied a music video along with the song.
It was released via Block Starz Music. He released his second mixtape in November titled Lace Up which featured the hometown anthem "Cleveland" , which was then played at Cleveland Cavaliers home games and went on rotation on Z The mixtape was recorded in three months in during a creative burst.
Following the release of the mixtape, he was featured in the magazine XXL in MGK announced that his debut album would be titled Lace Up , and would have an intended release on October 9, Lace Up was released on 9 October It debuted at number 4 on the US Billboard , with first-week sales of 57, copies.
In early , MGK announced that he would be releasing a new mixtape. MGK also announced that Wiz Khalifa will be featured on the mixtape. He also released a music video for "Champions" which features Diddy and samples The Diplomats song "We are the Champions" , as the music video release served as a promotional video for Black Flag.
On 26 June, he released Black Flag without prior announcement. Granted, when it was given, I pushed it right back. I couldn't handle it. This was until I experienced the loss of love for what I love doing most: music.
That was the one thing worth fighting for, even more-so then[sic] the love of my father. I've found that love again. They seem pretty snuggly at Tao and, later, at the retro Emo Night L. There was just youthful, free spirit in the air and no fucks given. But still, trouble keeps finding him. On the set of a sci-fi movie he just shot, an actor playing a cop kept punching him in the chest, for real, in take after take. When he complained, he says, he was told to suck it up.
And then there was the on-set driver who claimed that MGK threatened his life. Of course I want to make this fucking movie. In a life full of fails, how could a win stay a win? I just want to get through this year. I just want to fast-forward to Death came for him , right on cue, on the night of his 27th birthday, back in April.
Or so it seemed for a few minutes there. Paramedics showed up, started running tests to check if he was having a heart attack. In fact, all those punches on the movie set had fractured his chest plate. Doctors told him to take a month off, advice he ignored. On an overnight ride from New York to Baltimore, his tour bus is still raging as 5 a.
I gave everything on that fucking stage! In , his father moved MGK to Kuwait, where the teen got into even more trouble. Eventually, the pair were forced back stateside and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. While attending Shaker Heights High on the city's east side, MGK convinced a local t-shirt shop owner, who doubled as an MC manager, to take him under his wing. But it was a trip to New York's famed Apollo Theater in that really gave him his start.
The energetic performer became the first rapper in history to win the Apollo's talent show. MGK's mixtape Words And Running came shortly after and he created a high school promotional tour, where he performed to such excited crowds that school security teams began turning him away to keep the peace. And while the MC's catchphrase, "Lace up," which started as a mixtape interlude, became a call to arms for fans, their leader was still flipping burritos at Chipotle to pay his rent. After graduating high school, MGK's father kicked him out of their home and forced the young MC to fend for himself.
Not long after, an 18 year-old MGK welcomed his own child, a daughter named Casie.
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