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Before hip-hop artist Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) was spending time with Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving and owner Dan Gilbert at the NBA All-Star Game, he lived a painful childhood. When MGK was nine years old, his mother cheated on his father and abandoned them, according to the artist's official website. While a broken home brought MGK emotional suffering, bullying brought physical suffering. “People want to be my friend, but where the f--k were y’all when I was 10, 11 or 12 getting bullied and beat up in the gym?” says MGK on his song “The Return.” MGK turned to battle rapping as a defense mechanism. And ...