From living in his friend's closet to touring with Justin Bieber, Post Malone is the overnight sensation who scored a huge hit with debut single 'White Iverson' in 2015 and went on to establish himself as a major global star with a string of genre-melding, rap-pop anthems. Born in Syracuse, New York Austin Post moved to Grapevine, Texas at the age of nine and grew up absorbing his father's eclectic record collection, which included Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, and obsessively playing out his rock star dreams on the video game 'Guitar Hero' before turning to a real guitar when he was 16 and teaching himself to play with the help of online tutorial videos. He moved on to community college and worked shifts at a fast food chain, but when his friend Jason Probst found success with a YouTube gaming channel and moved to Los Angeles, Post followed him. Living in Probst's San Fernando mansion, he turned his bedroom into a studio and slept in the bottom of a wardrobe while tirelessly working on writing songs, developing his guitar and rap skills and making his own beats. Taking his moniker from a hip-hop name generator and braiding his hair in the style of basketball star Allen Iverson, he developed quickly from making mixtapes to playing in hardcore bands and appearing in Probst's videos. After working with producers FKi and Rex Kudo he came up with a dreamy, hypnotic track and a quietly-spoken bragging lyric that oozed confidence and aspiration. Two days after recording the track, he uploaded 'White Iverson' to SoundCloud and received a huge response, including millions of plays and praise from Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller. A deal with Republic Records followed and the single reached number 14 in the US charts, and after playing at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday party, Post featured on Kanye West's single 'Fade' and became the opening act on Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour in 2016. His debut album 'Stoney' established his reputation as a culture vulture who plucks liberally from country, electronica, pop and hip-hop, and his swaggering, trippy, blissed-out beats featured heavily on single 'Congratulations', which made the US top ten. Known for his unique style and ever-growing collection of tattoos, he scored his first number one single with the woozy, trap-inspired 'Rockstar' at the end of 2017 and returned the following year with second album 'Beerbongs & Bentleys', featuring appearances from Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla Sign and G-Eazy.Artist biography compiled by BDS/West 10. All rights reserved
