Lace Up

Lace Up
Machine Gun Kelly's studio album
Publication (s)	October 9, 2012
Label (s)	Bad Boy Entertainment , Interscope Records
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	13/16
running time	49:41 / 59:23
production	Sean Combs ( Executive Producer ) Machine Gun Kelly (Executive Producer) Harve Pierre (Co-Executive Producer) James McMillan (Co-Executive Producer) Alex da kid Boi-1da JUSTICE League Drumma Boy among others
chronology - Lace Up General Admission (2015)
Single releases September 27, 2011 Wild boy April 24, 2012 Invincible August 6, 2012 Hold On (Shut Up)

Lace Up ( English "to put together ") is the debut album of American rapper Machine Gun Kelly . It was released on October 9, 2012 on the Bad Boy Entertainment and Interscope Records labels .

production

Label boss Sean Combs and Machine Gun Kelly themselves acted as executive producers for the album . The music was produced by a variety of music producers including Alex da Kid , Boi-1da, JUSTICE League and Drumma Boy.

Cover design

The album cover shows the lettering Lace Up , which is made up of red laces. The background is gray and white. The background of the cover of the deluxe edition is red instead of gray and white.

Guest Posts

In addition to Machine Gun Kelly, other artists appear on eleven of the 13 songs on the album. Rock musicians M. Shadows and Synyster Gates can be heard on Save Me , while What I Do is a collaboration with rappers Bun B and Dub-O. The musician Alex Fitts is represented on Stereo and the singer Anna Yvette is involved in All We Have . Rappers Tech N9ne and Twista support Machine Gun Kelly on Edge of Destruction , while he works with R&B duo Planet VI on Runnin ' . The rappers Waka Flocka Flame ( Wild Boy ), Lil Jon ( Lace Up ) and DMX ( D3mons ) have other guest appearances . Singer Ester Dean can also be heard on Invincible and singer Blackbear has a guest contribution on End of the Road .

The deluxe edition also features rapper Young Jeezy on Hold On (Shut Up) and singer Cassie on Warning Shot .

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	Producers	length
1	Save me	M. Shadows , Synyster Gates	Woodro Skillson, Rami Beatz	3:12
2	What I Do	Bun B , Dub-O	Syk Sense, Swirv	4:32
3	Wild boy	Waka Flocka Flame	GB Hitz, Southside	3:51
4th	Lace Up	Lil Jon	Drumma Boy	3:02
5	stereo	Alex Fitts	Alex kick drum	3:54
6th	All we have	Anna Yvette	Anna Yvette, Frequency	3:27
7th	See My Tears		JUSTICE League	4:09
8th	D3mons	DMX	Dame Grease, Snaz	4:21
9	Edge of Destruction	Tech N9ne , Twista	Silent Mike, Swirv	5:07
10	Runnin '	Planet VI	Boi-1da	2:47
11	Invincible	Ester Dean	Alex da kid	3:05
12	On my way		JRB, Swirv	4:10
13	End of the road	Blackbear	Machine Gun Kelly , Slim Gudz	4:04

Deluxe Edition bonus songs:

#	title	Guest Posts	Producers	length
14th	Half Naked & Almost Famous		Machine Gun Kelly, Slim Gudz, Alex Kickdrum	2:51
15th	Hold On (Shut Up)	Young Jeezy	JP Did This 1	3:30
16	Warning shot	Cassie	JR Rotem , Aliby (Co)	3:21

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Lace Up   US 4th October 27, 2012 (12 weeks)

Singles

Wild boy   US 98 01/28/2012 (1 week)

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	69%
More reviews
source	rating
Rolling Stone
allmusic

Lace Up entered the US charts at number 4 on October 27, 2012 and stayed in the top 200 for twelve weeks. In Germany, it was not able to place itself in the charts.

On September 27, 2011, the song Wild Boy was released as the first single on the album and reached number 98 on the US charts. The second release Invincible followed on April 24, 2012, before the third single Hold On (Shut Up) was released on August 6, 2012.

Awards

On August 15, 2017, Lace Up was awarded a gold record for more than 500,000 sales in the United States .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
4. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
5. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
6. ↑ US: Gold