Post Malone: Moshing His Way Across America
POST MALONE’S new album,
Hollywood’s Bleeding, is full of songs about the Dallas rapper’s grueling inner pain. But on his Runaway Tour to support the chart-topping album, ongoing through late November, Post has also experienced some pretty serious outer pain. “My creative and brand manager, Bobby Greenleaf, hurt my wrist moshing to Slipknot in my hotel room in Sacramento,” Post says, in reference to this dressing-room photo, “so I was struggling to put my socks on.”
Post brings a similar visceral intensity to the show itself. “My name is Austin Richard Post, and I’ve come to play some shitty music for y’all,” he recently said onstage at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Post turned introspective songs like “Goodbyes” and “Allergic” into high-energy moments as he rampaged across the stage and even danced a little, punctuating song after song with the phrase, “Thank you so fucking much.” The show features an acoustic run-through of “Stay,” a standout from his 2018 LP,
Beerbongs & Bentleys, and a video cameo by Ozzy Osbourne. It’s “some Beatles rock-star monumental shit,” says Florida rapper Tyla Yaweh, who is opening shows along with Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd. Lee also joins Post late in the night to perform their 2019 summer smash collaborative single, “Sunflower.”
“It’s one of the best tours yet,” Post says. “I love hanging with Swae and Tyla. Those are my boys, and we all know it’s about to be a hot-boy fall.”