Singer wrote ESPN’s new college anthem after watching Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss
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- mgk wrote ESPN’s new college football anthem after Chiefs' Super Bowl loss.
- The performance followed a planned post-win show that turned into a loss party.
- mgk shared pregame optimism and postgame letdown with Taylor Swift in Kelce’s suite.
A few years back, the rapper Machine Gun Kelly (who goes by mgk) made an offer that Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce found far too easy to refuse.
If Kelce left the Chiefs and signed with the Cleveland Browns, mgk would pay him $500,000. For those of a certain age, that offer carried about as much weight as Dr. Evil’s ransom request of $1 million.
Here’s the thing: Kelce and mgk are good friends, as both grew up in Cleveland. They’re so close that at the first Kelce Jam music festival, mgk was a featured artist.
We learned this week that mgk, whose name is Colson Baker, was planning to play an epic show in February for Kelce and his Chiefs teammates.
While talking with ABC News about his song “dont wait run fast” being chosen as the “soundtrack for ESPN’s college football coverage” this season, mgk revealed the tune’s unfortunate connection to the Chiefs.
“I wrote that song after I left the Chiefs losing party that I had to perform in at the Super Bowl,” mgk said.
Yeah, mgk was going to perform a show to celebrate the Chiefs’ Super Bowl three-peat. Instead, it was perhaps the lowest energy for one of his shows.
He was asked what it’s like to have a concert for the team that lost the Super Bowl.
“Just let me be the only one that can say I’ve done it,” mgk said. “Don’t ever sign yourself up for that. Wait to sign the paper until you find out, until the third quarter or something, until it looks like it’s going one way or the other.“
He added: “It doesn’t matter. Travis, (Patrick) Mahomes, the Chiefs in general, I just rock with them. So it was, it was a pleasure, obviously, and I felt honored to be out there performing.”
But, man, what a night it could have been. During the ABC interview, mgk shared a couple of conversations he had that day with superstar singer Taylor Swift, who is dating Kelce.
“I was in Travis’ suite and at the beginning of it, Taylor was like, ‘Hell yeah, we’re gonna come watch you perform. It’s gonna be crazy tonight.’ And internally, I was stoked,” mgk said. “I was like, ‘Oh, what a legendary night this is gonna be.’
“By the third quarter, dude, I was looking at that score — I went up to Taylor, I was like, ‘Y’all aren’t coming tonight, huh?’ She was like, ‘I don’t think so, man. I’ll see if I can get him to get out. But I don’t think.’”
This story was originally published August 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM.
