Duo worked on collaboration “for 2 years, 8 different studios, 4 different countries, changed the key 4 times,” MGK says
Machine Gun Kelly and Jelly Roll have shared the video for their collaboration “Lonely Road,” which nods to John Denver’s country classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
“We worked on “Lonely Road” for 2 years, 8 different studios, 4 different countries, changed the key 4 times, and this Friday you’ll hear we finally got it right,” MGK previously wrote on social media of the track.
The video — which features the two singers starring alongside their respective significant others, Megan Fox and Bunnie XO — finds MGK and Jelly Roll playing down-on-their-financial-luck car mechanics. While MGK hatches a plan to rob a bank to support his pregnant wife, the country star is an ex-con who won’t go back down the road of crime. MGK manages to pull off the heist and give his wife the money before he’s apprehended and incarcerated, getting visits from his newborn in the slammer.
A collaboration between the two artists seemed imminent after their CMA Fest performance in June. Jelly Roll appeared for duets of his hit “Need a Favor” and MGK’s “My Ex’s Best Friend.” MGK also played a cover of the Chicks’ “There’s Your Trouble” while backed by a fiddle, teasing a foray into country music.
The ubiquitous Jelly Roll has been everywhere on stage and in the studio over the first half of the year, collaborating with or performing with a range of artists that includes Eminem, the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean, Kane Brown, Lana Del Rey, and Limp Bizkit to name just a few.
