Post Malone

Post Malone was born Austin Richard Post on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York His maternal grandfather, John Carlo Pavetto, was born in Pennsylvania to Italian parents. He was raised by his father, Rich Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. His father had been a disc jockey in his youth and introduced Post to many different genres of music including hip-hop, country, and rock When Post was nine years old,^[ he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his father became the manager of conccesions for the Dallas Cowboys Post began to play the guitar and auditioned for the band Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the popular video game Guitar Hero

Post has always had a love for emo music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles in June 2017, playing My Chemical Romance at the event. According to Post, his very first foray into professional music began when he was in a heavy metal band. Soon after, he says he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip-hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio At 16, using Audacity, Post created his first mixtape, Young and After Them Riches. He showed it to some of his classmates at Grapevine High School He was voted "Most Likely to Become Famous" by his classmates as a senior in high school. He worked at a Chicken Expres as a teenager.

He enrolled in Tarant County College but dropped out. After leaving college, Post moved to Los Angeles, Callifornia, with his longtime friend Jason Probst, a professional game streamer. According to Post, he chose "Post Malone" as his stage name when he was 14 or 15. The name was rumored to be a reference to the professional basketball player Karl Malone but Post later explained that while "Post" is his last name, he used a "rap name generator" to get "Malone".