Cleveland MC Machine Gun Kelly returns today with the release of Tickets to My Downfall. It’s his first full-length album since the release of 2019’s’s Hotel Diablo, which he dropped following his 2018 EP, Binge. The 15-track project includes features from Halsey, blackbear, iann dior, and Trippie Redd.
MGK explained the album’s title to Kerrang! magazine:
As soon as that Goodyear Blimp catches on fire, or that thing starts falling from the sky, I guarantee you every single eye is going to look up at it; every single phone is going to capture that moment; every single person is going to talk about that, right? ‘The Goodyear Blimp falls from the sky.’ But do the headlines ever say when you wake up on this casual f-ckin’ Wednesday that the Goodyear Blimp is floating, alive and well? No. And that’s kind of sad: that it takes you to crash and burn to get people to pay attention to you again. Tickets To My Downfall couldn’t have been my debut album because I had to get to a certain height to then decline and crash, and people are aware of this height that I’m at, and they don’t want to see it rise anymore; they want to see it crash. There had to have been a journey for people to care about to still be tuned into, to then see destroyed.
