Post Malone Takes Center Court in Omaha By Andy Roberts
He was born Austin Richard Post in Syracuse, New York, but you probably know him better as Post Malone. You also probably know he will be headlining on Tuesday, February 4, at the CHI Health Center. Born on the Fourth of July, about a quartercentury ago, Post Malone (the stories abound about the origins of his stage name) has spent the past half dozen years developing his art and a reputation as a genre-bending artist. Three albums into a career that looks to have legs, he remains nearly impossible to categorize.
In GQ magazine, he was quoted as saying, “It’s a struggle to be a white rapper.�
Malone’s march to the top of our pop-cultural landscape.
Closer to home, writing for Music in Minnesota. com, Justin Bailey had this to say.
Not that he seems to be struggling, much, living in Los Angeles with a second home in Utah, things seem to very much be going Post Malone’s way.
What can the Omaha audience expect? Well, here is some of what Jessica Shalvoy had to say in Variety about a November show in Los Angeles.
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Heavily tattooed, I won’t even try to count, he has “Stay Away� inked above his right eye. If that was intended as a warning to his potential audience, it has been ignored.
Post Malone, she reported, writes killer hooks that talk about doing well and falling apart.
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