Shade is thrown no matter who you are.
And if you get to the top of your game, it's bound to happen often.
Post Malone is no exception.
Here's a look at some fellow musicians who can't stand Post Malone.
Post Malone announced himself to the world in 2015 with "White Iverson," a song the rapper
self-released on his SoundCloud account.
It racked up 17 million listens, and eventually went quintuple platinum and peaked in the
top 20 of the pop chart.
But not everyone was a fan.
After pointing out that Post Malone's signature catchphrase "saucin'" had been previously
used by the rap duo Sauce Twinz, Nashville rapper Starlito told Hip Hop DX that he felt
"White Iverson" was cultural appropriation, right down to using the name of legendary
African-American basketball star Allen Iverson.
"I thought it was a little bit exploitative.
On a lot of cultural levels."
Another person who didn't care for "White Iverson" was rapper Earl Sweatshirt.
One of the era's most influential hip-hop figures, thanks to both his solo work and
as part of the boundary-pushing musical collective Odd Future, Earl took to Twitter to express
his confusion over Post Malone's popularity, writing,
"just heard the song 'white iverson' who mans is this lol, who let this slide"
Post Malone embraced the feud in the making, briefly changing his Twitter profile name
to "Post Sweatpants," and tweeting, quote, "i don't sweat s---."
Lil B is a prolific rapper, releasing 17 albums over the past decade, and that's not even
including his dozens of mixtapes.
He's almost as active on Twitter as he is on the microphone, tweeting more than 235,000
times (and counting) since 2009.
In October 2017, Lil B praised his favorite white hip-hop artists, such as Mac Miller,
the Beastie Boys, and Eminem.
Post Malone didn't get any love, though.
Lil B sarcastically called out Post Malone's musical and stylistic changes over the years,
writing,
"Post Malone is slowly turning into a white dude!"
Post Malone was so confused by the unexpected flame war that he actually thought Lil B's
account must have been hacked, until Lil B verified that, in fact, he had authored the
hit job.
In March 2019, Yelawolf released a freestyle song called "Bloody Sunday", a good old-fashioned
diss track.
The Alabama rapper went after seemingly everyone in modern-day hip-hop he doesn't care for,
including rappers Machine Gun Kelly and G-Eazy.
But he reserved his most pointed words for Post Malone.
Yelawolf rapped, quote, "f--- Post Malone, just because," and then he went on to call
Post Malone a, quote, "poser, biter, appropriation thief."
After receiving that earful, Post Malone responded on Twitter, writing,
"Yelawolf is a nerd, and this tweet is the only support I will offer...Last I heard you
was talking about how you wanted your s--- like mine."
In an additional tweet, Posty kept the feud going by passive-aggressively trying to steal
Yelawolf's backup musicians, quipping,
"Lmk when your band is done with your dookie and wants to play some actual good music."
Charlamagne tha God isn't a rapper, but as a host of the syndicated hip-hop-oriented
radio show The Breakfast Club, he's an influential figure in the genre.
He's been critical of Post Malone on multiple occasions, derisively referring to the musician
on a 2020 episode of Where's Wallo as a, quote, "Great White Hype" and saying that if it were
up to him, he'd throw the rapper out of hip-hop.
He also allowed rapper Russ to chime in during a podcast episode.
Russ expounded on the trap of cultural appropriation in rap music, saying,
"If you're white in hip-hop, you have to contribute to black culture in some sort of fashion,
otherwise, you are simply repeating history by coming into black culture, using that as
a medium to steal and profit for self."
Charlamagne pressed Russ, asking if he was specifically referring to Post Malone; Russ
agreed said Post Malone was a, quote, "fair example" of the phenomenon, pointing out how
the rapper emerged,
"Coming with braids and gold to the point people are thinking you're mixed and now you
drink Bud Light and wear cowboy boots."
But while Russ said he thought Post Malone's image was bordering on caricature, he praised
Post Malone's music, calling it "phenomenal."
It's not only major rappers that have a problem with Post Malone and his art.
A little-known session musician also took umbrage with the rapper's music, and asked
the court system to intervene.
In 2019, Post Malone scored one of his biggest hits yet with "Circles," his fourth single
to top the Billboard Hot 100.
Canadian musician Tyler Armes played bass on the track, and he later sued Post Malone
for royalties, claiming that he wrote some of the chords used in the song and thus should
have been credited as one of the songwriters.
Post Malone countersued; so far, no verdict has been reached, other than that a lot of
musicians seem to dislike Post Malone!
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