I cannot even believe the place that I’m in

Nashville shut down it’s legendary Broadway for Post Malone last month…One of the biggest pop stars in the world, singing with one of the biggest names in country.  Stars like Luke Combs signed up quick for Post’s Country Album… Post Malone wasn’t met with that kind of acceptance in the beginning. In 2015, when his hip hop track White Iverson dropped on the internet and went viral, he was called a culture vulture, a one-hit wonder. 

Q: “How did that feel to you?”
PM: “It sucked yeah. I was a kid.”

Q: “How did you deal with it?”
PM: “Drink a lot.”

Q: “Did you take it personally?”
PM: “Absolutely it’s hard not to. It’s not for the people who hate you. It’s for the people who love you and for yourself.

A decade later he has more than 40 billion streams on Spotify and six number one hits including a pop song, a hip-hop track, and most recent a country tune.

PM: “It changes your life in the best way ever, and the most beautiful thing is she has a beautiful Mom.” Q: “She saved your life (new born daughter).”
PM: “That True. Her and her Mom. Four years ago I was on a rough path.”
Q: “What were you wrestling with then?”
PM: “Everything, it was terrible.”
Q: “You were already really successful.”
PM: “Yes, Sir.
Q: “So what was what was troubling you.”
PM: “Loneliness.”

Post said he was spiraling. Downward.

PM: “Drinking. And then going living your life, and then whenever you lay down, drinking some more and having a good cry. And I got to wake up tomorrow and do this again. I don’t feel like that anymore, and it’s the most amazing thing…I needed to, for myself, to figure out who I am.”

At 29, Post Malone, who fans affectionally call Posty, is now one of the most popular musicians in the world… Posty has an intimate relationship with his fans.

Q: “You tell your audience frequently that you’re loved. Why do you do that?”
PM: “It’s important because not everyone knows it. There’s a lot of lonely people.”
Q: “Are you trying to give people something that you yourself have at times felt missing?”
PM: “I think so. I think so. Yes Sir. I think that’s a good way to put it. Because I don’t want people to feel how I felt, and I know they do. And I’m here and I’m on stage and I just want everyone to feel welcome and to feel loved and that the most important thing for me.”
Q: “And the love you get back is just as important?”
PM: “I cannot even believe the place that I’m in.”

— Anthony Mason, interviews Post Malone (CBS Sunday Morning, August 11, 2024)