POST Malone stirs hip-hop, R&B, and alternative into his own sonic “sauce” that’s both intoxicating and invigorating.
“I describe what I do as sauce,” he affirms. “You can turn up to it. You can chill to it. You can do anything to it. It makes you feel some type of way, or it makes you want to party. It just comes naturally.”
His recipe has yielded massive success so far. The Dallas native grew up listening to his dad’s Metallica, Johnny Cash, UGK, and The Notorious BIG records before trading his Guitar Hero controller for an electric guitar at eleven-years-of-age.
After graduating high school and releasing his first mixtape online, he packed up and headed west to Los Angeles, which would become his current home. Despite “partying too much” and not “having any money for cigarettes or Ramen,” the 19-year-old met production duo FKi and started making music.
“I wanted to create something everybody can get down to and get drunk to,” he explained. “People who like hip-hop will like it. People who like folk will dig it. People who like pop will be into it.”
Post Malone’s critically acclaimed full-length debut album, ‘Stoney’ (Republic Records), triumphed as one of the best hip-hop album debuts of 2016.
Coming in at number 6on the Billboard Top 200, the record moved over 58,000 copies in its first week.
The multiplatinum Dallasartist closed out the year as one of its most significant success stories with sights set on an even bigger and bolder 2017.
Post Malone has spent last year blazing towards superstardom.
His breakout single ‘White Iverson’ earned him triple-platinum status, while its follow-up single ‘Go Flex’ went gold and racked up over 46 million Spotify streams.
In addition to tearing up stages supporting Justin Bieber on the sold out global Purpose Tour and Fetty Wap on the Welcome to the Zoo Tour, he delivered a show-stopping performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!
Both Kanye West and 50 Cent have sought him out for high-profile collaborations, but in the meantime you can see what all the fuss is about yourself on Thursday, February 2 when he plays one night in the Academy.
