mgk and Wiz Khalifa drop ‘Girl Next Door’ and a hilarious music video, their first collab since 2013, ahead of their joint ‘BEB’ album
mgk and Wiz Khalifa just reminded everybody why the Blog Era felt different. On Tuesday, May 12, the Cleveland rapper (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and Pittsburgh’s Taylor Gang founder dropped “Girl Next Door,” their first official collaboration since 2013, when the two were fixtures of the same internet rap circuit that built careers on SoundCloud links and DatPiff tape downloads. The single arrives with a full music video and serves as the clearest preview yet of their upcoming joint album, currently operating under the initials “BEB.”
The pairing makes sense on every level. mgk and Wiz came up together in the early 2010s, when Taylor Gang and Kels were both staples of the Blog Era’s carefree, smoke-and-sun aesthetic. Their chemistry on “Mind of a Stoner” back in 2014 was built on exactly that, and “Girl Next Door” taps back into the same frequency: laid-back, dreamy, and unapologetically fun. Complex described the track as continuing to “build anticipation for the duo’s upcoming collaborative project,” and longtime fans who remember both artists’ mixtape-era run have responded with immediate enthusiasm across social media.
The Video: Roommates, Lawn Mowers, and Trevor Wallace
The “Girl Next Door” video goes full comedy, and it works. Directed in the spirit of the early 2010s music video playbook, the clip casts mgk and Wiz as roommates who spot two women moving in next door and proceed to construct an elaborate plan to get their attention. They hit the workout routines. They mow the lawn. They garden. They fill up a mini-pool. The whole thing is an extended bit about two guys putting in maximum effort with maximum confidence.
The punchline lands when they finally knock on the door: the women are a couple. “Oh, the Subaru,” mgk tells Wiz, as the whole situation clicks into place. Comedian Trevor Wallace appears as a nosy neighbor watching through binoculars, and his closing line is the sharpest joke in the video: “I knew those guys didn’t get b—hes. Lesbians, huh, nice!” It is the kind of video that does not take itself seriously for a single second, which is exactly the point.
BEB, the Tour, and What Comes Next
The joint album is the real story here. mgk and Wiz have been joking publicly that “BEB” stands for Big Enormous Burger, while the internet has largely landed on Blog Era Boys as the more likely meaning. Wiz confirmed the project is dropping in May during an April appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, which places the release window as imminent. A lyrics source confirmed the track appears under the “BEB” project, which suggests the album infrastructure is already in place.
The timing aligns with the second leg of mgk’s Lost Americana Tour, the 67-show headlining run in support of his 2025 album “Lost Americana.” Wiz Khalifa is joining as a co-headliner for the North American stretch, which kicks off May 15 in California and runs through stops in Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis, Toronto, Kansas City, and Vancouver before closing July 1 in Ridgefield, Wash. The road is going to serve as the live proof of concept for whatever “BEB” turns out to be.
mgk has been in a productive stretch. “Fix Your Face,” his collaboration with Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst released in April, hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. That he is now pivoting to a full hip-hop collab project with Wiz, while simultaneously touring arenas, speaks to where he is as an artist right now: comfortable enough in his catalog to revisit the era that built him without making it feel like a retreat. For Wiz, the “Girl Next Door” drop is a reminder that his instincts for breezy, effortless rap have not dulled. They have just been waiting for the right collab to come back out.
