Machine Gun Kelly Still Has An Unreleased Lana Del Rey Collaboration In The Vault

Machine Gun Kelly just released his fourth album, Hotel Diablo, last week. While fans were expecting a collaboration with Lana Del Rey, it turns out that the Cleveland rapper scrapped nearly all of his material from last year before putting out his new project.

He recently sat down with Zane Lowe to talk about the new album on Beats 1. “I erased everything that I did last year,” he said. “The original album that this was supposed to be, I erased that. I played it, and I got no reaction. I have a lot of honest people around me who were like, ‘Yo, this isn’t it.’”

However, he still held onto a collaboration with the “Young and Beautiful” singer, even though it didn’t wind up on the new album.

Last October, Del Rey teased a collaboration with the Cleveland rapper in a since-deleted Instagram post.

During a short video, a snippet of MGK’s lines can be heard rapping:

Look, this is gonna end bad for you
I’m gonna go mad for you
I know you wanna be bad for me
But I don’t wanna move too fast for you

During the Beats 1 interview, he opened up the possibility for a future release of the collaboration. “I even had a song with Lana,” he said. “That’s an elite collab. That song–lyric-wise and sound-wise–that song can come out whenever and still be relevant. So if anything, that one’s always there. But everything else, I scrapped.”

The official version of Hotel Diablo features collaborations with Travis Barker, YUNGBLUD, and Trippie Redd. Del Rey is gearing up to release her sixth studio album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, which she co-produced alongside Jack Antonoff.

Read all the lyrics to ‘Hotel Diablo’ on Genius now.