BY DC CUEVA
For hip-hop fans, the summer of 2018 has no doubt been an unforgettable one. It began with in June with Kanye West releasing Ye (and him performing on Saturday Night Live tonight), Nas dropping Nasir, and Drake shutting down social media with his latest release of Scorpion to record numbers. We then saw Eminem drop Kamikaze and laid a smackdown on Machine Gun Kelly, which came after G-Eazy ignited a beef with MGK. And, obviously, there was the tragic news of Mac Miller's untimely death - which came after he dropped his last album Swimming.
After a short stint in college and using a name generator to adopt his stage alias, Malone moved out west to join a video game player friend to L.A. to form the group BLCKVRD and began recording tracks together with several friends. One of them was "White Iverson," paying homage to NBA great Allen Iverson, which then made it to his SoundCloud account... one million plays later, he was being pursued by the big labels, with the Republic label ultimately winning out. Soon, Malone got to join Kanye on the single "Fade," landed an opening gig on Justin Bieber's world tour and dropped his debut album, Stoney.
That 2016 for him was just the opening act to the worldwide breakthrough Post would ultimately enjoy in 2018, starting with a good appetizer in opening single "Rockstar." It spent eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and offered the segueway to sophomore album Beerbongs & Bentleys, which not only debuted at the top but also set streaming records with 79 million listening on Spotify when it dropped last April, and two more top 10 singles in "Psycho" and "Better Now."
When I watched Post Malone at the Coachella festival - and who appeared as the last act in the Saturday livestream of Week 1 before Beyonce's epic performance, he epitomizes the feeling of being that everyday guy of those our age of being millennials in someone who loves to drink and smoke and still have a good time. Him being able to just be laid-back compared to his contemporaries, blending other genres and approaching his songwriting from an introspective point of view, and a style described as "laconic," has given Post a unique spot in the hip-hop world.
And then, there's Malone's summer of 2018: after he took to the stage with true rockstars Aerosmith at the VMA's last month, the plane he took from there to London had their tires blow out at takeoff, but rerouted back to New York and landed safely. Earlier this month, his old home in the San Fernando Valley outside Hollywood was robbed when robbers' attempt to grab him by the throat just missed when the rapper moved out. And a week later in the early hours of Saturday, Sept. 8, his white Rolls-Royce car collided with another car in Santa Monica, and again Malone was spared from his third bout with bad luck. He's obviously lucky to still be here.
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And earlier, Syrus added to the long list of those he's gotten to hang out with when he and Post Malone met up. He's not the only big name hip-hop artist to meet up with the Extreme Challenge champ this year, as Sy also hung out with another rapper who's become big in the past year, Lil' Pump during this year's Spring Break down in Cancun.
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