![]() ![]() Addressing the audience early on, Malone laid out the night’s agenda: He’d be performing songs from both albums - “and getting drunk while we do it.” The unlikely star with the man bun, beard and beer gut took the stage to a sea of cellphones and the aroma of weed wafting across the venue. 1 a month after notching 431 million opening-week streams to topple a record set last year by fellow singer-rapper Drake, and Malone's momentum has pushed his 2016 release, "Stoney," back into the Top 20. Sterling Heights was the latest stop on Post Malone’s tour in support of the sophomore album “Beerbongs & Bentleys.” The album sits at No. Working the stage alone, over the narcotic haze of backing tracks that often doubled his live vocals, the affable Malone applied his sing-songy lines to lyrical depictions of hedonism, gold-trimmed hip-hop decadence and personal setbacks. You’re not alone if you’ve puzzled over the sudden dominance of Post Malone, the 22-year-old Texan with the burnout persona who’s ruling the pop charts while racking up record-breaking streaming numbers.īut the demand for his melodic, moody, trap-flavored music was on full display Tuesday night, as Malone connected with a young, locked-in crowd of 7,200 that packed Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill. The video for Malone's first single, "White Iverson," racked up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube in its first month online and earned him a deal with Republic Records.View Gallery: Photos: Post Malone at Michigan Lottery Amphitheater Malone, like the late Lil Peep is part of the "SoundCloud rappers" subgenre of hip-hop-artists who gather their first fans on the Internet before they tour or hit mainstream radio. His career was built by connecting with hip-hop listeners on an almost personal level by uploading tracks to SoundCloud. ![]() If Post Malone doesn't recognize this he's only been listening with half an ear." Michael Harriot at The Root wrote, "If white privilege somehow became a person, learned how to make shitty music and covered its weak, undefined, inbred jawline with an unkempt beard, I'd name it Post Malone." UPROXX's hip-hop editor, Aaron Williams, said, "Historically and currently, rap has always talked about "real sh*t," from interpersonal issues to social justice. Taken together, Malone has come in for some heavy-duty flack. "Like, maybe my music's not the best, but I know I'm not a bad person, so you're just being a hater." He doubled down on his comments and said he was a victim of reverse-racism because of the exchange. ![]() "I wish I'd said, 'What are you doing for Black Lives Matter?' Some sassy shit to shut him up," he told RS. I don't know." In the RS interview, Malone had a new answer. Short version: In a 2015 radio interview, Charlamagne asked Malone about supporting Black Lives Matter, and Malone gave an awkward answer about the best way to help the movement was for him to "keep making music. Frank Ocean's 2016 hit album Blonde featured "Nikes," a heartbreaking song referencing the death of Trayvon Martin, while Blood Orange's 2016 album Freetown Sound was a complex look at the queer black experience in gentrified Brooklyn.īut worse for Malone, his views put his can't-let-it-go comments about Charlamagne tha God in a recent Rolling Stone profile in a stark light. There's Tyler the Creator's coming-out album, Flower Boy, and Future's magnum opus, Codeine Crazy. That's an objectively strange thing to say, considering the crazy amount of emotionally-rap out there. Post Malone in his music video for "Congratulations". ![]()
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