Post Malone is inarguably one of the biggest and most controversial artists around. But
with massive success comes harsh critique, and Malone has had no shortage of haters — many
of them from the hip hop community. Here are the stars who just can't stand Post Malone.
"No one will ever love me like I love myself."
YelaWolf didn't hold back in March 2019 when he went after Machine Gun Kelly, G-Eazy, and
Post Malone in a savage diss track called "Bloody Sunday." In the freestyle, the Alabama
rapper went for the throat when he called Malone a quote, "Poser, biter, [and] appropriation
thief." Malone responded, tweeting,
"YelaWolf is a nerd, and this tweet is the only support I will offer his album. […] Last
I heard you was talking about how you wanted your s--- like mine. […] Hmu dad."
"All this stress making me lose my hair."
To prove his point, Malone shared a screenshot showing a positive comment YelaWolf left on
his Instagram, adding,
"Also lmk when your band is done with your dookie and wants to play some actual good
music."
Looking to have the final word, YelaWolf Instagrammed a since-deleted snap of himself dressed in
a cowboy outfit and, using Malone's middle name, wrote,
"Richard look, […] Dad can't play catch with you right now. […] Maybe your little
brother [G-easy] will play with you […] or have the balls to actually record a comeback.
Thanks for the support a------."
First released on SoundCloud in February 2015, "White Iverson" made Post Malone a surprise
star. It received major love from Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller who tweeted out the track,
helping it go viral, and, in January 2016, "White Iverson" was certified platinum. It
seemed like everyone on the planet had heard the breakout hit by then — everyone except
rapper Earl Sweatshirt. And when he finally heard it, he wasn't impressed. He tweeted,
"Just heard the song 'White Iverson.' […] Who let this slide. […] I'm a grown ass man,
y'all have fun slappin that one."
Malone clapped back with a big dose of sarcasm, as he temporarily updated his Twitter profile
to feature a new hip hop name — Post Sweatpants — and retweeted a message calling for a
Sweatshirt-Malone collaboration. He followed that up with a simple tweet, writing,
"I don't sweat s---."
On-air personality and Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God is known for his outspoken
nature. And he ripped into Post Malone during a 2020 interview with Where's Wallo. Asked
which two people he'd throw out of the rap industry, Charlamagne instantly named Posty,
then failed to come up with a second artist, claiming,
"Post Malone, definitely though . And for no other reason than I'm probably hatin'.
I don't really dig his music like that."
He went on to add,
"I think he's a fake Future and Future gets so much flack for being Future, but then you
got a guy out there pretending to be Future, and that's Post Malone."
He then tried to downplay his answer, not-very-convincingly adding,
"There's nobody that I absolutely despise and I'm like yo, why are they rapping? I don't
even really despise Post Malone like that. Just top of mind."
But this wasn't the first time Charlamagne was caught criticizing Malone. In 2018, when
the Chicago Tribune published a feature on Malone, which begged the question, "Why is
the rapper so popular?," Charlamagne told the outlet,
"Every few years you get a Great White Hype. […] I think Post Malone makes great records,
but I don't think he's a good rapper at all. When you're looking for good lyrics you turn
to Kendrick Lamar, you turn to J Cole, you turn to Wale, you turn to Chance the Rapper,
you turn to Rapsody. You don't turn to Post Malone."
Charlamagne Tha God found a kindred spirit in Russell Vitale — better known simply
as Russ — when the latter stopped by Brilliant Idiots, a podcast Charlamagne co-hosts with
Andrew Schulz. While on the show, the New Jersey rapper, who is of Sicilian descent,
was asked about cultural appropriation within hip hop. And, soon enough, Post Malone's name
came up. Explaining how he approaches rap, Russ noted,
"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, [and] using
that as a medium to steal and profit for self."
While Russ tried to make clear that he does like Malone's music, even calling it quote
"phenomenal," he did concede that Charlamagne was on the ball, adding of Post's persona,
"You come in with braids and gold to the point people are thinking you're mixed, and now,
you know, you drink Bud Light and wear cowboy boots."
He said of the artist,
"It feels like you came in and used hip hop because it's the coolest genre and the coolest
look and aesthetic. You used it to propel yourself to the forefront and then you reverted
back to who you really were."
NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer has a bone to pick with Post Malone. Bowyer recalled being dragged
to see Posty live in concert by his wife, during Super Bowl weekend in 2019. And, well,
he wasn't impressed. Sharing his feelings during an official NASCAR interview in February
2020, Bowyer slammed,
"Posty showed up two hours late, he was drunk, played seven songs — kind of — and left.
Posty sucked."
Asked jokingly if he would ever consider tattooing his own face, Bowyer launched into another
critique of the "White Iverson" hitmaker, panning the inked look, but adding,
"Anybody that can tattoo their face to that extent, drink beer on stage to a lot of extent,
show up two hours late, and leave after seven songs — he's doing something right."
"It's very rock star life, know what I mean?"
When Post Malone told Newonce that hip-hop simply doesn't have the emotional impact of
other musical genres, Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg went to town, announcing on Instagram,
"Even though I like you in person and we've had nice conversations before, you're out
of passes."
He added,
"I'm done giving you passes, bro. […] Either leave hip hop and go make other music in another
genre or start showing respect for hip hop."
The radio personality then explained his stance the following day, telling his Hot 97 co-hosts,
"It's not that I think Post means to do it and he's a bad guy, it's that he's being careless.
When you're a white artist who's making kind of cross-genre, hip hop-related music but
you wear and you use every trope of hip hop […] and then, you don't show respect for
hip hop […] [that's] dangerous territory."
In the end, both Posty and the DJ had a chat in their Instagram messages, and as Rosenberg
told his co-hosts the following day,
"He clarified that he meant new hip hop. Current, popular hip hop."
Although it looks like these two squashed their beef, it sounds like Rosenberg won't
be inviting Post Malone back on his show anytime soon.
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