{"id":487832,"date":"2019-07-09T21:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=857271"},"modified":"2019-07-09T21:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:55:38","slug":"see-machine-gun-kelly-trippie-redd-pete-davidson-team-for-new-candy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-machine-gun-kelly-trippie-redd-pete-davidson-team-for-new-candy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Machine Gun Kelly, Trippie Redd, Pete Davidson Team for New \u2018Candy\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MachineGunKellyCandyVideo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/machine-gun-kelly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_machine-gun-kelly\" data-tag=\"machine-gun-kelly\">Machine Gun Kelly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trippie-redd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trippie-redd\" data-tag=\"trippie-redd\">Trippie Redd<\/a> visit a pharmacy worker portrayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pete-davidson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pete-davidson\" data-tag=\"pete-davidson\">Pete Davidson<\/a> in Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s new \u201cCandy\u201d video. The song appears on the rapper\u2019s recently released album, <em>Hotel Diablo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The visual opens with a bored looking Davidson behind the counter at a pharmacy. A couple of kids come in to purchase \u201cLit Juice\u201d cough syrup under the guise that their mothers are sick, but Davidson deduces they\u2019re looking to get high from the concoction. He schools them on their bad drug-purchasing skills and tells them to leave and work on their game.<\/p>\n<p>Machine Gun Kelly and Trippie Red also pay a visit the pharmacy, where they rap about popping pills as a detrimental coping mechanism. The visual mirrors the hazy, drugged-up sentiment of the lyrics with woozy camera shots. \u201cI\u2019m in my head again, I took more medicine,\u201d Machine Gun Kelly raps. \u201cRipped up the parts from my heart and my chest again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandy\u201d follows the previously unveiled <em>Hotel Diablo<\/em> cut \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/machine-gun-kelly-travis-barker-yungblud-new-song-i-think-im-okay-845256\/\">I Think I\u2019m Okay,<\/a>\u201d which features Travis Barker and Yungblud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/machine-gun-kelly-trippie-redd-pete-davidson-candy-video-watch-857271\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine Gun Kelly and Trippie Redd visit a pharmacy worker portrayed by Pete Davidson in Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s new \u201cCandy\u201d video. The song appears on the rapper\u2019s recently released album, Hotel Diablo. The visual opens with a bored looking Davidson behind the counter at a pharmacy. 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