Post Malone (Austin Richard Post, born 1995) went from SoundCloud rapper to one of the most commercially successful artists in modern pop, sliding between hip hop, rock, and now country. Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) moved over 5 million US copies; F-1 Trillion (2024) is the country pivot with Morgan Wallen aboard. Find Post Malone vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Austin Richard Post, performing as Post Malone (the stage name 'Malone' came from a rap name generator), was born in Syracuse, New York on July 4, 1995 and raised in Grapevine, Texas (his family relocated when he was nine). He launched his recording career as a SoundCloud rapper in 2015. His 2015 single White Iverson reached viral attention and launched his career. He signed with Republic Records. His 2016 debut Stoney was a commercial breakthrough, and subsequent albums Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018) and Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) established him as one of the most commercially successful artists in popular music history. His 2024 album F-1 Trillion marked his country music pivot, with collaborations with country artists including Morgan Wallen (I Had Some Help, 2024 - multi-week Billboard Hot 100 #1, Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance 2025), Luke Combs, Hardy, and others.
Post Malone's sound combines hip hop, pop rap, contemporary R&B, trap, pop, rock, country, and emo rap with his distinctive vocal delivery (use of Auto-Tune and melodic phrasing), varied compositional approaches across multi-decade career, and lyrical content addressing relationships, fame, substance use, and personal experience drawing on mainstream pop and hip hop traditions alongside contemporary country influences (2024+).
Republic Records and Mercury Records pressings of the Post Malone catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and elaborate limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Post Malone typically start with Hollywood's Bleeding (2019) or F-1 Trillion (2024).
