Malone later enrolled in Tarrant County College, but dropped out. He worked at a Chicken Express as a teenager. He was voted "Most Likely to Become Famous" by his classmates as a senior in high school. He showed it to some of his classmates at Grapevine High School. At 16, using audio editor Audacity, Malone created his first mixtape, Young and After Them Riches.
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The name was rumored to be a reference to the professional basketball player Karl Malone, but Malone later explained that "Post" is his last name, and he used a "rap name generator" to get "Malone". Career 2011–2016: Career beginnings and StoneyĪccording to Malone, he chose "Post Malone" as his stage name when he was 14 or 15. Soon after, he says he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio. According to Malone, his first foray into professional music began when he was in a heavy metal band. Malone has always had a love for alternative rock music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles in June 2017, playing songs by American alt-rock band My Chemical Romance at the event. He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the popular video game Guitar Hero. Malone began to play the guitar and auditioned for the American band Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. When Malone was nine years old, he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, after his father became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys. His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many different genres of music including hip hop, country, and rock. He was raised by his father, Rich Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. Malone was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York.