Final month Nashville shut down its legendary Broadway for Post Malone, one of many largest pop stars on the earth, who can be singing with one of many largest names in nation. “We’re capturing a video with Mr. Luke Combs,” Malone stated. “We’re gonna be acting on the again of a semi-truck.”
Malone’s duet with Combs, “Man For That,” is featured on Malone’s new album, “F-1 Trillion.” It additionally additionally contains duets with different nation superstars, together with Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton and Dolly Parton.
Stars like Combs signed up fast for Malone’s nation album. “I heard he was gonna be engaged on this factor and I simply wished to be a part of it,” Combs stated. “Huge instances for nation music!”
“Everybody right here was so accepting and sort,” Malone stated.
“That is a testomony to you,” stated CBS News‘ Anthony Mason in a brand new interview for CBS Sunday Morning.Â
“I disagree. I feel that is a testomony to them,” he replied.
Put up Malone wasn’t met with that form of acceptance at first. In 2015, when his hip hop monitor “White Iverson” dropped on the web and went viral, he was known as a “culture vulture,” and a “one hit wonder.”
And the way did that response make him really feel? “It sucked,” he stated. “I used to be a child.” He handled it by consuming, loads.
“Did you are taking it personally?” Mason requested.
“Completely,” stated Malone. “It is laborious to not.”
However he stored writing hit songs. “It is not for the individuals who hate you,” he defined. “It is for the individuals who love you, and for your self, you recognize what I imply?”
A decade later, he now has greater than 40 billion streams on Spotify, and 6 #1 hits, together with a hip hop monitor (“Rockstar” with 21 Savage), a pop music (“Circles”), and most lately a rustic tune (“I Had Some Assist” with Morgan Wallen)
Throughout Malone’s knuckles are tattooed an eclectic assortment of heroes: George Harrison, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley. “They’re all useless dudes, by the way in which,” he stated. However dudes which might be necessary to him.
Austin Richard Put up (he added Malone as a stage title) grew up in Dallas, the place his dad managed concessions for the Cowboys.
Requested what made him wish to play guitar, he replied, “Guitar Hero. It was, 100%. And I used to be like, ‘Alright, let me get an actual guitar and see if it interprets.’ And it didn’t!”
However he began writing, and located what Rolling Stone would name “a gift for turning dreamy darkness into Top 40 gold.” “You make a child with sound waves,” he stated, “which is neat, I feel.”
He has a child now – a two-year-old daughter he sings about within the new music, “Yours”:
Yesterday she stated her first phrase
She’s a great distance from “I do”
Proper now, she runs at me
Someday she’ll run to you
And will probably be your finest day,
nevertheless it’s gonna be my worst
You would possibly watch her strolling in direction of you,
however I noticed her strolling firstÂ
And he or she is perhaps carrying white,
however her first gown, it was pink
She is perhaps your higher half,
however she’s my the whole lot
We’ll each love her without end,
however I liked her lengthy earlier than
And at some point I do know I will give her away
Buddy, that do not imply she’s yours
“Yours” by Put up Malone
Mason requested, “You are already envisioning your daughter getting married?”
“I give it some thought loads!”
“Is that this the primary music you’ve got written about your daughter?”
“No sir, I’ve written a complete lotta songs,” Malone stated.
He retains her title personal, however her initials are tattooed on his brow – proper by his mind. “I will always remember her. Should you heard her cry, you may always remember her, both! It adjustments you in the easiest way ever. And essentially the most lovely factor is, she has a phenomenal mother.”
He says each girls saved his life: “4 years in the past I used to be on a tough path.”
“What had been you wrestling with then?” Mason requested.
“Every part,” Malone replied. “It was horrible.”
“You had been already actually profitable.”
“Sure, sir.”
“So, what was troubling you?”
“That is a very good query,” he stated. “Simply loneliness.”
Malone says he was spiraling downward: “Gettin’ up, havin’ a very good cry, drinkin,’ after which goin’ residing your life. After which everytime you go lay down, drinkin’ some extra and having a very good cry. And identical to, ‘I gotta get up tomorrow and do that once more.’ And I do not really feel like that anymore. And it is essentially the most wonderful factor.”
“I am sorry you went by means of that,” stated Mason.
“That is alright. I wanted to for myself, to determine who I’m.”
At 29, Put up Malone (who followers affectionately name Posty) is now some of the well-liked musicians on the earth. But, backstage earlier than a gig in Nashville final month, he was nervous: “I received a giant pit in my abdomen, like, able to go, large butterflies.”
However “Posty” has an intimate relationship along with his followers. He regularly tells his viewers that they’re liked. “It is necessary, as a result of not everybody is aware of it,” he stated. “There’s a whole lot of very, I feel, lonely folks.”
“Are you making an attempt to present folks one thing that you just your self have at instances felt lacking?” Mason requested. Â
“I feel so. Sure, sir. I feel that is a great way to place it. As a result of I do not need folks to really feel how I’ve felt. And I do know they do. And I am right here and I am on stage and I simply need everybody to really feel welcome and to really feel liked. And that is crucial factor for me.”
“And the love you get again is simply as necessary?”
Malone replied, “I can’t even consider it, the place that I am in.”
This story was initially printed by CBS News on Aug. 11.Â
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