“When I looked at Mac, I just saw a talented young man. “You know who did a great job with this? Mac Miller,” he said of the rapper who died from a suspected drug overdose last September. There’s no added chains, there’s no added statement jackets. It’s all about being an artist more than a celebrity… This time around, the music’s too good and I’m not doing anything but being myself. “I got rid of all the bells and whistles on this project.

The rapper, real name Colson Baker, was also inspired by the late Mac Miller’s simpler approach to his career.

When Lowe asked if starring in the Motley Crue biopic The Dirt made him keen to embrace rock influences he confessed: “I think that did, and I think Chester passing did that for me, too.”(Hotel Diablo is) the album I always wanted to put out”. The 29-year-old rapper released his new single I Think I’m OKAY in collaboration with British rocker Yungblud and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker on Thursday.Īnd in a chat with Apple Music’s Beats 1 DJ Zane Lowe, the Rap Devil star revealed he was influenced by two artists in particular to go in a different direction with his new album Hotel Diablo.

Machine Gun Kelly was moved to reconnect with a rock-influenced sound after Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington’s tragic death.

Mgk hotel diablo mac miller