Richard Colson Baker (born April 22, 1990), better known by his stage names MGK and Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper and actor, from Cleveland, Ohio. MGK embarked on a musical career as a teenager, releasing a mixtape in 2006. He went on to release four more mixtapes.
Richard Colson Baker released his first mixtape at the age of eighteen.
His first mixtape was released in 2006 when he was 16. Simple math will let you know that he was 18 in 2008 which was 2 years after the mixtapes actual release.