“Keep spreading love, just keep being beautiful and just keep kicking ass,” he said. Although that makes it sound easier than it was.Post closed out the two-song set with a message for the crowd. When he moved to Los Angeles a little later, Post gravitated toward producers who liked and understood the sound he was headed toward. He used to play with bands, in acoustic sets, at Battle of the Bands-seemingly wherever he could find a microphone and an audience. And as soon as I step on stage it usually gets better.” He continues: “By the second song, I’m in the groove and my dance moves come out.” Post knew he wanted to be a musician at 12 and has been performing live since he was 16, as a rocker teen in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, TX. “I always get nervous before the show, I pound a couple of these bad boys back, and it goes away. So I ask, Do you ever get nervous? “All the fucking time,” he says. This seems to me a very Drake thing to say. In other words, it’s hard to be young, even if you are a legitimate rock star. “There’s a lot of shit that goes on behind the curtains that a lot of people don’t see,” he says. And now it’s especially difficult, because factors out of our control-the economy, Generation X-make our futures seem bleaker than ever. And you know, as young people, we go through a fuckin’ ride.” It’s a timeless sentiment: That it’s tough to be young. “So it’s like you’re stunting very hard, but at the end of the day this isn’t going to make me happy,” he says. A secret: This kind of song is Post’s favorite to make-The Loathing Stunt. As you may have guessed, it’s about what it feels like to be a rock star. Which is to say it sounds like a chopped and screwed lullaby, complete with eerie, minor-key synths, a booming 808-forward beat, and 21 Savage’s percussive delivery. I do know what he means, because it’s what pop music is starting to sound like more and more often you can’t go to a club these days without hearing “Rockstar” or something that sounds suspiciously like it. There are thirteen people fussing over his hair, his makeup, and his clothing while he casually crushes beers. at a photo studio, it’s hard to square the guy in front of me with the voice on “Rockstar” that croons: “Threw a TV out the window of the Montage/Cocaine on the table, liquor pourin', don't give a damn/Dude, your girlfriend is a groupie, she just tryna get in/Sayin', "I'm with the band" (ayy, ayy).” Post is taller and stouter than I thought he’d be, and ever so slightly more unkempt it’s undeniable, though, that I’m in the presence of a genuine star. That’s the first single off his next album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, set to drop sometime this year. More recently, Post’s first #1 song, “Rockstar,” with 21 Savage, sat at the top of the charts for eight consecutive weeks. I got a guitar in the bathroom ready to rock.”įor Post, the formula works: Over the past few years, the 22-year-old rapper/singer/songwriter has a) befriended Kanye West and Justin Bieber and released music with each of them, b) cracked Billboard’s top 10 songs in the country with “Congratulations,” off his first album, Stoney, which c) was certified double platinum last October, ten months after it debuted. And then you come back and finish it,” Post tells me, meaning the song, not the shit. ![]() The third: “You go home and you take a shit and you’re like, OH. Next, he pulls up some unfinished tracks. When he’s in the mood to write a song, the first thing Post Malone does is have a cigarette in the studio.
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