What’s gnarlier than a neck tattoo? A neck tattoo that looks like a bloody knife slice all the way down the length of said neck. A feat Machine Gun Kelly has managed to achieve in his latest inking sesh.

Just before his birthday – which had quite the celebrity crowd including Megan Fox, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker – the American singer posted a photo of the tatt to his Instagram with the caption, “bye bye neck. 💉”. The tattoo is a red line that stretches down his neck and looks a lot like a bloody cut.

Last night Machine Gun Kelly threw the star-studded bash for his 31st birthday and posted a bunch of photos to Instagram showing off both his celebrity friends and new ink.

“I’ll grow up next summer…SINcerely, birthday boy,” he captioned the pics.

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Fans have had a mixed response to the gruesome new tattoo.

“Thought that was a legit slice in ur neck,” posted one follower.

“My cat could have did that for free,” said another follower and, lol.

“Woahhh that’s so sick dude. Not” said another unconvinced follower.

However, MGK has many dedicated fans and the comments section is also littered with praise, basically about how hot he is.

“U LOOK BEAUTIFUL BESTIE,” said one excited follower.

“I dont think you understand I AM OBSESSED,” said another.

Over the years MGK has been involved in a highly publicised spat with rapper, Eminem – a battle which began way back in 2012 when Machine Gun Kelly wrote that Eminem’s then-16-year-old daughter, Hailie, is “hot as fuck.”

Since then the two rappers have written multiple diss tracks about each other titled ‘Not Alike’, ‘No Reason’ ‘Rap Devil’ and ‘Killshot’.

Last year MGK blamed the lack of success with his track ‘Hotel Diablo’ on the beef between him and Slim Shady.

“It was coming off the tail-end of that infamous beef,” MGK acknowledged. “So no one wanted to give it the time of day.”

“It’s like if you make a shitty movie and then you come out with a great movie right after, but people want to focus on the fact that they hated whatever you just did. What I did in the beef was exactly what it should be, but that project wasn’t welcomed.”

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Check out the Machine Gun Kelly Eminem diss track, ‘Rap Devil’:

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