With his ever-growing popularity and fame, many are asking whether Post Malone is responsible for his massive success, or if there’s another artist behind the scenes?
While Post Malone has been a part of many collaborations with different music artists, his own songs are completely his own. From the release of his first single White Iverson, Malone has played the main part in the writing of all of his songs.
But where did it all start for the man we know as Post Malone?
Before He Was Famous
Post Malone was born Austin Richard Post on July 4th, 1995 to American parents in Syracuse, New York. At nine years old, Malone moved with his family to Grapevine, Texas when his father became the manager for the Dallas Cowboys.
Malone’s father was a huge music fan and had been a DJ in his youth, so he introduced Malone to many genres of music as he grew up. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar and was a fan of emo music, and even formed part of a heavy metal band. He soon transitioned to softer rock and into hip-hop before he started experimenting with creating his own music.
In high school Malone used a “rap name generator” to create his rap name “Post Malone” and it stuck. Not long after, he created his first mixtape which he shared with his classmates at school. As a senior in high school, he was voted “Most Likely to Become Famous”. From the very beginning, Malone was writing his very own songs.
Moving to L.A.
Malone made the move to Los Angeles, California where it didn’t take long for him and several other producers and artists to form a music group; BLCKVRD. Through creating music in this group Malone was introduced to a number of people, including Rex Kudo who produced Malone’s first single “White Iverson”, which Malone recorded just two days after writing it. A few months later Malone released a music video for the single, which reached one million views in less than a month and received praise from big names such as Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa.
From there record labels started paying attention to Malone, and he signed a recording contract with Republic Records in 2015.
