Machine Gun Kelly’s late father had a dark childhood.

The 34-year-old “I Think I’m OKAY” musician spoke about his father’s past on the August 5 episode of Bunnie Xo’s Stupid blonde Podcast and recalled how the latter, who died in July 2019, was on trial for the murder of his own father at the age of 9.

“The story I was always told was that their father dropped the gun and his head basically got blown off,” said MGK (whose real name is Colson Baker). “It all happened in my father’s room when he was 9 years old. So he and my grandmother were charged with murder. They were both acquitted.”

During the podcast, the rapper/rocker admitted that as a child, he was always “so mad” at his father because he would “freak out” whenever he heard a “loud noise” or a “boom.”

“I was like, ‘You’re supposed to be a man, dude. Why are you acting like that?’ and I just hated him,” MGK said. “And then you sit there and think about a kid who was on trial for murdering his father at nine years old… I had a very interesting conversation with him on his deathbed about that moment.”

The “Lonely Road” artist gave his father some leniency for his difficult childhood and parenting, saying, “In my situation with my father, he was tormented by the craziest crap that a kid can go through, as far as I can imagine, that he had to deal with, but also had almost every possible bad circumstance against him.”

“It’s almost like the expectations are too high,” he continued. “Because we think they know everything because we grew up looking up to them. But we’re all just lost and trying to figure it out.”

MGK spoke for the first time about the gruesome details of his grandfather’s death in his 2022 Living in Pink documentary after realizing that he saw his father “suffer a lot” during his childhood.

“He watched his father die before his eyes, bleeding to death on the floor and being shot in the head with a shotgun in his apartment,” the “Emo Girl” musician recalled while reading an article from June 6, 1968 in the Albuquerque Journal with the headline: “Army Chief Warrant Officer Found Shot to Death in Sandia Base Apartment.”

In the documentary, MGK turns to his 15-year-old daughter Casie and explains, “It’s crazy because they actually put my dad on trial when he was 9 years old.”

Reflecting on how that traumatic experience later affected his own life, the Grammy-nominated artist said, “Because he never had a chance to heal, all that stuff came out in me as I grew up.” His daughter added, “I can understand why my dad was so depressed, because it was kind of passed down to him through generations.”