Originally appeared on E! Online
What’s in a name?
Well, for Machine Gun Kelly, it’s victory. Indeed, the 35-year-old rapper revealed that his suggestion for his and Megan Fox’s 4-month-old daughter Saga Blade prevailed — a win he didn’t earn with his and ex Emma Cannon’s 15-year-old daughter Casie.
“Well, I lost the first one and won the second one,” MGK told Today in the July 24 edition of its 8 Before 8 video series. “When you are 18 years old and you go to her mother and you go, ‘What if we named our kid “Kid?”’ I get why she’s like, ‘Hey man, shut up.’”
And as the rapper (real name Colson Baker) admitted, “That was one of the names. I was like, ‘If her name was Kid, that would be sick.’”
Though MGK didn’t succeed in naming his first child, he has been vocal about why he landed on the name Saga.
“She is an epic story,” he said during a June 20 appearance on the morning show. “That’s what saga means.”
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The “my ex’s best friend” singer also explained that, while ruminating on her name, he considered “her journey, the five years of her culmination of coming, disappearing, coming back again, disappearing, coming back again.”
Indeed, Fox — who is also mom of kids Noah, 12, Bodhi, 11, and Journey, 8, with ex-husband Brian Austin Green — has been open about experiencing a miscarriage before becoming pregnant with Saga.
MGK also noted that his daughter’s name ties into his Norwegian roots, as he added, “That’s the Nordic goddess of storytelling. So, she has a storytelling future ahead of her.”
But Saga isn’t the only moniker the rapper has reflected on. In fact, Machine Gun Kelly explained why he recently decided to alter his stage name to simply mgk.
“Machine Gun Kelly — I was bestowed that name,” he continued during his July 24 interview with Today. “It was derived from a mobster. So, it wasn’t technically my name.”
He added, “I think ultimately it was a character and now I’ve infused the artist with the human. So, I am MGK. And mgk — all lowercase — just very much more matches who I am now.”
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