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With the release of Mainstream Sellout just weeks away, Machine Gun Kelly is getting fans excited by sharing the album's various covers.
"covers of the physical copies for MAINSTREAM SELLOUT album shot by @markseliger 📸" he captioned a gallery on Instagram, while also giving followers incentive to engage on the post. "now leave a bunch of 🍅🍅🍅 if u want me to reveal the digital cover for streaming"
The black and white artwork revolves around MGK's new chrome guitar and shows the rapper/rocker in shiny chrome, too. Of course there are tomato emojis aplenty in the comments, so hopefully he'll reveal the additional artwork soon.
See the post below.
On Friday (March 4), MGK released the album's third single, "Ay," which proves Mainstream Sellout will be a mix of his rap and rock sounds. The song features Lil Wayne and is the second collaboration to be shared from the project, following "Emo Girl" featuring WILLOW.
Mainstream Sellout is slated for a March 25 release. In October, he gave fans some more details about the upcoming project. “It feels more guitar-heavy for sure, lyrically it definitely goes deeper – but I never like to do anything the same,” he said at the time. “Every album is a juxtaposition of the last album. So I went and studied Tickets, and I heard the bright sound that I had, and for this album I just turned the lights off.”
He also described the album as "college" whereas Tickets to My Downfall was "high school" in an interview with Variety. "I think like, in high school, you don’t really have a sense of responsibility, you have a fear of that responsibility, and so you want to explode and use all that energy for fucking off," he explained. "And then college comes, which is this album, and you are aware of the responsibility and you still know how to have fun, but you understand that there’s a certain duty you have to your life to do something with it. Born With Horns feels like it has an objective or a real lesson that you’re walking away with."