Austin Richard Post, known artistically as Post Malone is an American rapper, composer
and music producer, who in recent years has become one of the most successful figures
on the hip-hop scene.
He was born on July 4, 1995 in Syracuse, New York, son of Rich Post and Nicole Lake, although
he grew up with his stepmother Jodie.
He has a younger brother, Mitchell, and a younger stepbrother, Jordan.
His father was a DJ, and thanks to him had an extensive musical training in several genres,
including rap, country and rock.
At the age of 9, he moved with his family to Grapevine, a suburb of Dallas, in the state
of Texas, as his father began working as manager of the commercial premises of the Cowboys
Stadium, the American football team.
One of his hobbies was to play Guitar Hero, so he decided to learn to play this instrument.
His musical beginnings were more oriented towards heavy-metal.
At the age of 15 he did a test for the metalcore band Crown the Empire, but was rejected when
he broke a pair of strings on his guitar.
At this age was when he chose his stage name, which he pulled from an online generator of
rapper names.
A year later he recorded his first mixtape, using the free audio editor Audacity.
He spread it among his high school classmates.
After graduation he moved to Los Angeles, California, with his good friend Jason Probst,
a professional gamer.
Together with other artists he formed the band BLCKVRD, thanks to which he met some
of the producers he later worked with, such as FKi or Rex Kudo.
The latter was in charge of mixing his first hit titled "White Iverson", which he composed
and recorded in 2 days, and uploaded to his SoundCloud account in February 2015.
5 months later he released the videoclip, which in a couple of weeks reached a million
hits.
He soon signed his first contract with Republic Records, and made contact with other important
rappers.
He performed at Kylie Jenner's 15th birthday party, where Kanye West discovered Austin's
music, and offered to collaborate on the single "Fade" from his album "The Life of Pablo".
He also befriended Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber and became the opening act for
his Purpose World Tour concert tour.
In mid-2016 he released his next single, "Go Flex", which he presented on Jimmy Kimmel's
television show, one of the most popular late nights.
He released his first album, a mixtape with the title "August 26th", which seemed to push
the date for his first album.
However this was kept waiting a little longer, and didn't come out until December 9.
"Stoney", in addition to his previous tracks, included the single "Congratulations", which
was his first entry in the top 10 hits of the Billboard Hot 100.
In a few months the album was certified double platinum in sales.
Post Malone's music is a mixture of several genres with a predominance of hip-hop, but
also includes country, grunge and R&B, while his vocal style is both concise and simple.
He defines himself as "genreless", and among his major references stands out Bob Dylan,
Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash or 50 Cent.
In 2017 he began to work on his second album, which was scheduled for the end of that year,
but once again had to be postponed.
He wasted no time releasing the preview single "Rockstar", a great success that remained
eight consecutive weeks at number 1.
And finally in April the new album, "Beerbongs & Bentleys" was released, which broke the
reproduction record on its first day in Spotify, with 78'7 million, and 4 days later it was
certified platinum in sales.
The remaining part of the year was full of great news after winning the Billboard Music
Award for best rap song and the MTV Video Music Awards for best song of the year, both
for "Rockstar".
He also beat Michael Jackson's record for weeks on Billboard's R&B and Hip-Hop album
list, organized his own music festival in his hometown of Dallas and participated in
the soundtrack for the movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," with the song "Sunflower".
2019 was marked by the release of his third album.
He began performing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Grammy Gala, where he was nominated
in four categories.
In summer he released the first two singles, "Goodbyes" and "Circles".
And he finally confirmed the title of the new album "Hollywood's Bleeding" and the release
date, September 6.
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