Why Pete Davidson looks up to ‘great dad’ Machine Gun Kelly

Pete Davidson told the crowd of Machine Gun Kelly (aka Colson Baker) at the Daily Front Row Fashion Media Awards, “I f–king love this dude,” and called him a “great dad.”

“Colson is, I think, my oldest best friend in this tough biz,” Davidson told a starry crowd that included fashion royalty like Iman, Zac Posen and Tommy Hilfiger.

“Pound for pound I think he’s maybe the most talented person I have ever met. He can rap, he can play guitar, he can rock, he can act,” the former “SNL” comic mused.

Davidson, who has a baby on the way with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, also lauded MGK’s parenting skills. The star has a new baby with Megan Fox as well as a daughter Cassie, 16, from another relationship, who was in the crowd.

“He’s a great dad,” Davidson said.

Pete, 31, continued of his musician pal, “He always leads by example… and I am really grateful that I have someone that I can call just to shoot the s–t, or talk about what the hell is going on in our careers or how the world works. He’s just a wonderful person and so resilient. He’s been around for two decades and he is 35. That’s a crazy accomplishment. And he’s not going anywhere.”

The tattooed rap rocker, who has a new album, “Lost Americana,” told the crowd his “style can be unconventional. To some my name is unfamiliar, but I am completely unapologetic in my authenticity with what I sing and what I wear.”

Kelly was given the Style Icon Award and said the honor is a sign “to take a heavier step into fashion, designing, campaigning and modeling.”

“I am 6-foot-4 and smoke an insane amount of cigarettes, so I check a lot of those boxes,” he joked.

Kelly called himself the “embodiment of the American dream,” and even made a crack about going to the Met Gala.

“I was a broke kid from the Midwest… [this] truly has verified my thought that the whole time the Met Gala must have been sending the invite to the wrong address,” quipped Kelly, who was raised in Ohio.

Also honored at the event were Mary Alice Stephenson, Cultured’s Sarah Harrelson and designers Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim of Oscar de la Renta and Monse.