Machine Gun Kelly’s track “Invincible” featuring Esther Dean and produced by Alex Da Kid is doing fairly well on radio and even got picked up for a Verizon commercial. That doesn’t mean he likes it, though. In fact, he loathes everything about it and is not pleased with his label’s bossman Jimmy Iovine for “tricking” him into doing the “cookie-cutter” song. See what he really thinks about the track below.

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“First off, I hated the song,” he told Tampa’s WILD. “It was brought to me by corporate America. Jimmy Iovine was like hey, first off they didn’t even come to me with the song, it was like a contest between the Interscope rappers like Yelawolf, Kendrick Lamar and myself, which I [later] found out.”

“I told my manager, ‘Don’t you dare make this into a song.’ Then we get a email, ‘Jimmy [Iovine] wants you to records a second verse to this and it has a hook on it.’ I don’t operate like that. I hate cookie cutter songs, like B.o.B. [and Hayley Williams] with ‘Airplanes,’ like [Eminem and Rihanna’s] ‘Love the Way You Lie.’ You weren’t there making the song with each other. I write all my hooks…I was offended… I never talked with Ester in my life. I never talked to Alex Da Kid, who makes cookie cutter records.”

He went on to explain how he was duped into recording the song. He was told that he was to fly to LA to meet Lil Jon, who he had been trying to get on his album. When he arrived, instead of Lil Jon, Alex Da Kid, the producer of “Invincible,” was there asking him to re-record the verses.

“I was like how about you go and screw yourself,” MGK said. After being told people were being fired because he wouldn’t comply and that his album would get shelved, he simply went to sleep. “I woke up the next morning and had breakfast,” he said. ”I thought about my friends and my kids.”

He wrestled with the idea before returning to the studio to rap out his frustrations.

“I took all my anger out on that verse,” he said. “It gives me Eminem chills…There is so much pain and triumph behind that song. We did all that and came out on top. [The radio acceptance] shows we really are invincible.”

Source: CBS Local