

He was voted "Most Likely to Become Famous" by his classmates as a senior in high school. He showed it to some of his classmates at Grapevine High School. At 16, using audio editor Audacity, Malone created his first mixtape, Young and After Them Riches.
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The name was rumored to be a reference to the professional basketball player Karl Malone, but Malone later explained that "Post" is his last name, and he used a "rap name generator" to get "Malone". Career 2011–2016: Career beginnings and StoneyĪccording to Malone, he chose "Post Malone" as his stage name when he was 14 or 15. Soon after, he says he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio. According to Malone, his first foray into professional music began when he was in a heavy metal band. Malone has always had a love for alternative rock music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles in June 2017, playing songs by American alt-rock band My Chemical Romance at the event. He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the popular video game Guitar Hero. Malone began to play the guitar and auditioned for the American band Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. When Malone was nine years old, he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his father became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys. His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many different genres of music including hip hop, country, and rock. He was raised by his father, Rich Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. Malone was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. 2.3 2020–present: Collaborations and upcoming fourth studio album.2.2 2017–2019: Beerbongs & Bentleys and Hollywood's Bleeding.2.1 2011–2016: Career beginnings and Stoney.He holds several Billboard chart records: he is the first solo artist to top the Rap Airplay and Adult Contemporary charts, while "Circles" set the record for longest climb to number one (41 weeks) on Adult Contemporary chart by a solo artist. Īmong the best-selling music artists, with over 80 million records sold, Malone has won 10 Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and one MTV Video Music Award, and has received six Grammy Award nominations. Its second single, " Circles", also reached number one and set the record for the most weeks (39) in the top ten on the Hot 100. His third number one, " Sunflower" (with Swae Lee), was the promotional and lead single to the soundtrack for the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and was included on Malone's third album, Hollywood's Bleeding (2019), which became Malone's second number one. It also contained the Hot 100 number-one singles " Rockstar" and " Psycho", and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Malone's second album, Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018), debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and set several streaming records. The album set the record for most weeks (77) on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Malone soon signed a recording contract with Republic Records, and released his debut studio album Stoney in 2016, which contained the diamond hit single " Congratulations". Malone began his music career as an independent artist in 2013 and attained recognition with his 2015 debut single " White Iverson", which peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. His stage name was derived from inputting his birth name into a rap name generator. Renowned for blending genres and subgenres of pop, hip hop, R&B, and trap, Malone is also known for his introspective songwriting and variegated vocal styles. “rockstar” will appear on Post Malone’s forthcoming second studio album “Beerbongs & Bentleys”, which will be out in stores on December 1.Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

No wonder why Post Malone had to add a “warning” message in the intro of the music video. Things will get so bloody one of the final scenes will see Post Malone covered entirely in blood – similar to that iconic scene from Rihanna’s “ Bitch Better Have My Money” music video. In Post Malone’s “rockstar” music video he will be the one using the katana and will soak his super clean all-white outfit with the liters of blood he will take out with his attacks from his enemies. The music video is very Kill Bill Volume 1 in the Japanese bar scene where Uma Thurman kills everybody with her Hattori Hanzo katana and kills everybody causing a literal bloodbath. Believe it because it’s true! The Emil Nava-directed music video arrived on VEVO in the late night hours of yesterday, November 21.

The music video for Post Malone’s #1 single “ rockstar” is finally here.
