![]() “Austin calls them Postmates, and that’s pretty good, but I call them Post-Malonials.” Rich smiles, satisfied with himself. “He’s been my biggest fan forever,” says Malone, “even when I was doing shitty Metallica covers, just singing in my room with my earphones full blast and he could just hear me yelling.” And now here he is at another amphitheater full of fans. Rich has encouraged his son’s musical pursuits from the beginning, having raised him on a steady diet of classic rock. “I can’t, in my wildest dreams, understand how this must be for him,” he says. Rich Post is fifty-seven, a salt-and-pepper beard down to his clavicle, polite and stoic and obviously bursting with pride. Malone’s dad is on the tour for a couple weeks. I’ve been here for not quite an hour before we sit down for a proper talk, and the can he’s just popped open is the fourth one I’ve seen in his hand. There’s a greenroom marked “Bible Study,” stocked with booze and some Frito-Lay Fun Times Mix variety packs there’s a tasteful joint-rolling station on a nearby table there’s a cooler stocked with Malone’s beverage of choice, Bud Light. The preshow party is starting to come together. If you get a swing at an answer, it will be studded with “kind ofs”: “He’s a rapper, kind of,” or “I guess it’s kind of pop music,” or “He just kind of seems like a really nice guy?”ĬOAT, SHIRT, SHORTS, AND TIE BY VALENTINO SHOES BY VALENTINO GARAVANI BELT AND SOCKS, STYLIST’S OWN. Sometimes they’ll get out a “He’s.” before they stop again. Then you ask the follow-up question: What’s his whole thing? And they stop for a second. You mention Post Malone and people say, “Oh, I love him.” And they mean it. ![]() In an era when superstars are from the era before-Drake, Harry, Taylor, and Beyoncé were already well established by the time he hit that upload button in Encino or Tarzana-Post Malone is one of the few new faces to have saturated the culture. He currently holds the record for the most diamond-certified ten-million-selling singles with eight, cruising past Bruno Mars’s six earlier this year, and that’s before the dust has settled on any of the singles from Austin. He’s been nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy Award twice and Record of the Year three times. or was it Tarzana?-he’s dropped three multiplatinum studio albums, one greatest-hits compilation, and his latest release, Austin (out this past July). Since the February night in 2015 when the then-nineteen-year-old uploaded a demo called “White Iverson” to his SoundCloud-from an inflatable twin mattress on the floor of a closet in a friend’s furniture-free house in Encino. Learn more about it, as well as Esquire’s living legacy, in this letter from Editor-in-Chief Michael Sebastian.Įverything has been going Malone’s way for some time now. We are celebrating our 90th anniversary with a wildly ambitious package called The Next 90. You applaud his ingenuity when he tells you about how he rigged up a scooping device with a pair of pliers and a plastic takeout-pizza tripod you relax a little when he retrieves it you feel his victory when a Roman dentista gets it re-embedded. (Under normal circumstances, you’d correct him and say, “Drain,” but you don’t, because the guy is on a roll.) “I’m like, ‘ Fuck, man, I’m going to have to go into the ancient Roman sewers.’ ” You find yourself rooting for this guy to locate the twelve-carat gem that a team of dentists and jewelers shaped and polished and drilled into his teeth. But still: “I had the left one in my hand, and I dropped it right into the sink hole,” he says. The two massive, real-ass jewels are right there on his canines where they belong a happy ending is a sure thing. It hardly matters that the story has already been spoiled. Your heart breaks when you hear how he hungrily bit into a Chicken McNugget that night in Rome, and how he just knew he’d lost that $600,000 fang. There are more than eight billion people on planet earth, and very few of them can remain relatable while they’re telling you about the time the diamond fell out of their mouth.
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