Malone began his music career in 2011 and gained recognition with his 2015 debut single "White Iverson", which peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Malone signed a recording contract with Republic Records and released his debut album Stoney; it contained the diamond single "Congratulations" (featuring Quavo) and set the record for most weeks (77) on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. His second album, beerbongs & bentleys, debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and set several streaming records. It also contained the US number-one singles "Rockstar" (featuring 21 Savage) and "Psycho" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 61st Grammy Awards.
His third number one, "Sunflower" (with Swae Lee), was the promotional and lead single to the soundtrack for the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and was included on Malone's third album, Hollywood's Bleeding; the album was his second number one. Its second single, "Circles", reached number one and set the record for most weeks (39) in the top ten on the Hot 100. His fourth album, Twelve Carat Toothache, was released in June 2022, spearheaded by the US top-ten singles "I Like You (A Happier Song)" (featuring Doja Cat) and "One Right Now" (with The Weeknd).
Among the best-selling music artists with over 80 million records sold, Malone has won 10 Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and one MTV Video Music Award, and received nine Grammy Award nominations. He holds several Billboard chart records: he is the first solo artist to top the Rap Airplay and Adult Contemporary charts, while "Circles" set the record for the longest climb to number one (41 weeks) on the Adult Contemporary chart by a solo artist.
Austin Richard Post was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. He was raised by his father, Richard Post, and his stepmother, Jodie. His father had been a DJ in his youth and introduced Malone to many different genres of music including hip-hop, country, and rock. 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. 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. He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the video game Guitar Hero.
Malone has always had a love for alternative rock music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles, California, in June 2017, playing songs by American alt-rock band My Chemical Romance at the event. According to Malone, his first foray into professional music began when he was in a heavy metal band. He says soon afterward he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip-hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio.
According to Malone, 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 Malone later explained that "Post" is his last name, and he used a "rap name generator" to get "Malone". At 16, using the audio editor Audacity, Malone 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 Express as a teenager.
Malone later enrolled in Tarrant County College but dropped out. After leaving college, Malone moved to Los Angeles, California, with his longtime friend Jason Probst, a professional game streamer.
After moving to Los Angeles, Malone, Probst, and several other producers and artists formed the music group BLCKVRD and recorded music together. Several members of the group, including Malone, moved into a house in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley together. While living in the San Fernando Valley, Malone met record producers FKi 1st and Sauce Lord Rich, who formed the production team FKi, as well as Rex Kudo, who produced several of Malone's tracks, including "White Iverson". Malone recorded the song two days after writing it. The lyrics of "White Iverson" allude to Basketball Hall of Fame player Allen Iverson. In February 2015, upon completion, it was uploaded to Malone's SoundCloud account. On July 19, 2015, Malone released a music video for "White Iverson".
After hitting one million views within a month of releasing "White Iverson", Malone quickly garnered attention from record labels. In August 2015, he signed a recording contract with Republic Records. Malone went on to work with a number of prominent rappers including 50 Cent, Young Thug, Kanye West, and others. In August 2015, he performed at Kylie Jenner's 18th birthday party, where he met Kanye West, who enjoyed his music, leading to him collaborating with Malone on his single "Fade" from his album The Life of Pablo. Malone later began a friendship with Canadian singer Justin Bieber leading to Malone being an opening act for Bieber's Purpose World Tour (2016–17). On April 20, 2016, Malone premiered his new single, "Go Flex" on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show.
On May 12, 2016, he released his first full-length project, a mixtape, titled August 26th, the title of which was a reference to the release date of his debut album. On June 9, 2016, Malone made his national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing "Go Flex".
In June 2016, XXL editor-in-chief Vanessa Satten revealed Malone was considered for XXL's "2016 Freshman Class" magazine cover, but she was "told by his camp that he wasn't paying attention to hip hop so much. He was going in more of a rock/pop/country direction." However, Malone denied these claims, explaining that his latest mixtape, as well as his album, were both hip-hop. In August 2016, Malone issued an apology for his album, Stoney, being late. It was available for pre-order on November 4 and was finally released on December 9. Malone later went on to call the album "mediocre", despite the success of the single "Congratulations" featuring Quavo, Malone's first top-ten song on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eight. Stoney also featured the top 100 hits "I Fall Apart", and "Deja Vu", featuring Bieber, with the album later being certified double platinum by the RIAA in October 2017.
In February 2017, Malone revealed the title of his next project, beerbongs & bentleys, and was set to be released in December, before eventually being pushed back to 2018. In September, Malone released the first single from the album, "Rockstar", featuring 21 Savage. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the spot for eight consecutive weeks prompting Rolling Stone in 2017 to say he is "one of the most popular musicians in the country". In November of the same year, Malone released the official music video for "Rockstar", directed by Emil Nava.
On February 20, 2018, Malone previewed his new song with Ty Dolla Sign titled "Psycho". "Psycho" was released on February 23, 2018, and a tour with 21 Savage was announced. The song debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Malone's third entry in the top 10; it would later top the charts in June of that year, becoming Malone's second number one. On April 5, 2018, Malone stated that Beerbongs & Bentleys will be released on April 27, 2018. The same day, he also premiered the song "Stay" during the Bud Lite Dive Bar show in Nashville. Upon release, Beerbongs & Bentleys broke the first-day streaming records on Spotify, with 78.7 million streams worldwide. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 moving 461,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 153,000 coming from pure sales. The album was also certified platinum by the RIAA after four days and spawned three top 10 songs and six top 20 songs.
In an interview with Billboard in May 2018, Malone's manager announced that Malone was planning to start his own record label and film production company and Malone later won Top Rap Song at the Billboard Music Awards for "Rockstar" featuring 21 Savage. Malone confirmed in June 2018 that he was writing his third album, and confirmed that a festival would be taking place, organized by him, titled "Posty Fest", in Dallas, Texas on October 28. Malone promised a "blockbuster" lineup with headliners like rapper Travis Scott.
In August, Malone broke Michael Jackson's 34-year-old record for most weeks on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with Stoney reaching its 77th week on the ranking compared to the 76 weeks that Thriller spent. A collaboration album with rapper Mac Miller was also teased in August 2018. During his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he previewed his song "Sunflower", a collaboration with Swae Lee, from the soundtrack to the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In November 2018, it was confirmed Malone was recording his third album in his Utah home.
Malone was nominated for 4 awards at the 61st Grammy Awards for his album beerbongs & bentleys. Among the nominations was Album of the Year and Record of the Year. He performed with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the awards show on February 10, 2019.
In July 2019, Malone released the single "Goodbyes" featuring Young Thug and also announced the Runaway Tour with Swae Lee as the opener. On August 5, Malone shared a snippet of an unreleased track "Circles" on YouTube. He then performed the song at his second annual Bud Light: Dive Bar concert and confirmed that the official song would be released the following week. That same day and on July 25, 2019, at Cheyenne Frontier Days he announced the album was finished. He released the song on August 30, 2019. He confirmed that his third studio album would be released on September 6, 2019. On August 26, 2019, Malone announced on Twitter that his third album was called Hollywood's Bleeding and would be released on September 6, 2019. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 489,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Hollywood's Bleeding would also go on to be nominated for Album of the Year at the 63rd Grammys.
On March 12, 2020, Malone's concert at Denver's Pepsi Center proceeded as scheduled, drawing a sellout crowd of 20,000, likely the last large-scale enclosed gathering in the U.S. before COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Malone received backlash for not canceling his sold-out arena show amid rising concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. Reportedly, future U.S. tour dates in March were postponed by Live Nation on March 12, 2020.
On April 24, 2020, Malone announced that a new album was in progress during a live stream performance. In late April 2020, Malone performed a live-streamed set consisting entirely of Nirvana covers from his home. Malone sang lead vocals and provided rhythm guitar for the set. He was accompanied by drummer Travis Barker, bassist Brian Lee and lead guitarist Nick Mac. The performance raised over $5 million for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 relief fund. The performance also received praise from Nirvana's surviving members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, as well as Kurt Cobain's widow Courtney Love.
In June 2020, Malone was featured on Tyla Yaweh's single, "Tommy Lee". The single was followed up with a remix, released July 10, 2020, featuring drums from Tommy Lee himself, as well as a re-recorded guitar instrumental. A second remix to the song, featuring rapper Saint Jhn, was released subsequently. On April 30, 2021, Malone was featured on DJ Khaled's twelfth studio album Khaled Khaled on the song "I Did It" also featuring DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, and Lil Baby.
On July 9, 2021, Malone released the single "Motley Crew" with an accompanying music video, featuring several guest stars, past collaborators, and friends including Tommy Lee, Tyga, Tyla Yaweh, and his manager Dre London. The music video was directed by Cole Bennett of Lyrical Lemonade. On November 5, Malone released "One Right Now" with the Weeknd, as the lead single from his fourth studio album. On January 26, 2022, during his cover story will Billboard, Malone revealed that his fourth studio album would be titled Twelve Carat Toothache. In April 2022, Republic Records relaunched Mercury Records with a new roster that includes Post Malone. On April 27, 2022, Post revealed that Twelve Carat Toothache would be released on June 3, 2022. Malone released the album's second single, "Cooped Up" with Roddy Ricch, on May 12, 2022.
On May 14, 2022, he appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live and performed "Cooped Up" with Ricch, as well as an unreleased song titled "Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol", in which he was joined by Fleet Foxes. Malone had previously confirmed that he had worked with Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold on a song for the album.
For the 2022 Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers film, Malone covered the theme song from the 1989 television series of the same name, originally performed by Jeff Pescetto in the series and by The Jets in album releases.
On August 12, 2022, the documentary film Runaway premiered on the Amazon Prime Video channel Freevee. It showed behind-the-scenes moments from the first leg of the Runaway Tour in 2019, as well as performances from some of the highlighted dates, such as New York City, Chicago, and the 2019 Posty Fest in Arlington.
In April 2023, Malone announced that he was working on a new album. On April 14, 2023, Malone released "Chemical", as the lead single from his fifth studio album AUSTIN. On April 21, 2023, Malone released The Diamond Collection, a nine-song compilation of his record-breaking eight RIAA Diamond-certified singles, along with the single "Chemical".
Malone cites Bob Dylan, in whom he became interested around the age of 15, as an influence on his music, calling him "a genius" and "a god" though his music has been called "about as far away from Rock n' Roll as you can get". He called "Subterranean Homesick Blues" the "first rap song". He has a tattoo of Dylan as well. Malone has cited Kurt Cobain and Johnny Cash as key influences too. Malone has also cited 50 Cent, whom he called a legend, Kanye West and Key! as influences.
Cold
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And it's over yeah
Yeah my life so cold and my wrist so froze
Yeah it's over yeah
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
Yeah I die for you
Yeah my ice so cold, and my wrist on froze
Yeah I die for you
Uh oh, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Yeah, Stoney he satisfied
But it don't bring you closure
Diamonds my state of mind, I'm drowning in the ocean
Just stay right where you are and don't come any closer
I'm just gon handle mine and just maintain composure
People they say, learn from mistakes yeah
We keep your space yeah , but all this pain yeah
You say you go away yeah, still hit my lane though
You hurt so bad when you in the wait yeah
I needed you needed you, so what the fuck do I do?
I needed you needed you, so what the fuck do I do?
Oh my God, oh my God (I don't bullshit no no more)
Oh my God, oh my God (think about you all the time)
Oh my God, oh my God (and I don't care bout my money)
It'll never be my goal (nothing coming on my own)
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
And it's over yeah
Yeah my life so cold and my wrist so froze
Yeah it's over yeah
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
Yeah I die for you
Yeah my ice so cold, and my wrist on froze
Yeah I'd die for you
My jewellery on, know you can ice cube
And all I wanna do is just ignite you
This Saint Laurent, mama you look nice too
Can't hold my tongue, don't gather hearts too
Remember when I fell in love? I just came up a load
Remember aim 3 [?], told that bad bitch to get on my velour
Hey, don't have much to do yeah, everything is ruined
Ain't no secret to it, thrown the check like a Nike, I just do it
Oh my God, oh my God (I don't bullshit no no more)
Oh my God, oh my God (think about you all the time)
Oh my God, oh my God (and I don't care bout my money)
It'll never be my goal (nothing coming on my own)
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
And it's over yeah
Yeah my life so cold and my wrist so froze
Yeah it's over yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
The song "Cold" by Post Malone is a melancholic track that speaks of coldness, pain, and the drowning feeling of lost love. In the chorus, Post Malone's voice is deep and poignant, as he describes his "wrist so cold and his ice so froze," suggesting that he has been wearing icy jewelry to keep the pain away. Post Malone croons that he will "die" for the person he loves, despite the coldness in his life. The song is filled with melodic repetition that is both emotive and catchy.
In the first verse, Post Malone describes that he is satisfied with his life, yet it does not bring him closure. His state of mind is dreary, as he is "drowning in the ocean," and he urges the listener to stay right where they are and not come closer. Post Malone is aware of the pain he is going through, but he tries to maintain his composure, handling his life one day at a time. He acknowledges that people learn from their mistakes, and he needs space to heal his wounds but still holds onto the fact that he cannot let go of the pain.
In the second verse, Post Malone talks about his jewelry, which he identifies as his ice, suggesting that it helps numb his feelings. He admits that he thinks about the person he loves all the time and that he cannot hold back his tongue. He recalls falling in love and aims to forget about the pain and how everything in his life is ruined. In the end, he accepts that the challenge is to move on with life, no matter the cost.
Overall, Post Malone's "Cold" is a song that tries to capture the pain and hurt that comes when love is lost. Post Malone uses a mix of melodies and poetry to share his story and brings fans on an emotional journey. The song is a great representation of Post Malone's musical style, which blends rap, pop, and R&B.
Line by Line Meaning
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
My jewelry is adorned with gems and precious stones and they are so sublime, it causes a shivering sensation; it's amazing
And it's over yeah
I have achieved so much in life that there's nothing else left to accomplish and it's surreal
Yeah my life so cold and my wrist so froze
My life is flamboyant and luxurious, but it's also very lonely and unfulfilling, it's a trade-off
Yeah it's over yeah
I am in a state of euphoria, feeling that I have achieved everything that I need to and I'm content
Yeah my wrist so cold, and my ice so froze
My jewelry is strikingly dazzling and mesmerizing, it is truly breathtaking
Yeah I die for you
I am extremely devoted to the person I care about, I would do anything for them
Uh oh, oh yeah, oh yeah
A sudden realization strikes me and I'm overwhelmed with emotion, it's an aha moment
Yeah, Stoney he satisfied
I have reached a level of success and wealth that satisfies me and my ego
But it don't bring you closure
My materialistic possessions and accomplishments can't fill the void inside me, they can't provide closure
Diamonds my state of mind, I'm drowning in the ocean
My jewels are symbolic of my state of mind, I am struggling with the weight of it all, it's like drowning in the ocean
Just stay right where you are and don't come any closer
I don't want anyone to come close to me, it's a dangerous game to play
I'm just gon handle mine and just maintain composure
I will handle my business and keep my emotions in check, nothing will throw me off track
People they say, learn from mistakes yeah
People always say that we learn from our mistakes, but mistakes are easier made than lessons learned
We keep your space yeah , but all this pain yeah
We keep our distance from each other, but still the pain chokes us
You say you go away yeah, still hit my lane though
You say you're leaving but you still come back, you can't resist me
You hurt so bad when you in the wait yeah
It hurts to wait for you, its excruciatingly painful
I needed you needed you, so what the fuck do I do?
I am desperate for your love and attention, I don't know how to deal with this
My jewellery on, know you can ice cube
My jewelry is so dazzling, it can make anyone feel chilly, like an ice cube
And all I wanna do is just ignite you
All I want to do is to entice and inspire you, to make you feel alive and passionate
This Saint Laurent, mama you look nice too
My Saint Laurent clothes look amazing, and you look amazing too mama
Can't hold my tongue, don't gather hearts too
I can't keep my mouth shut, but I am also not in the game to break hearts
Remember when I fell in love? I just came up a load
I vividly recall what falling in love felt like, it was overwhelming and amazing
Remember aim 3 [?], told that bad bitch to get on my velour
I remember aiming for something and achieving it, I told a sexy woman to sit on my soft velour material
Hey, don't have much to do yeah, everything is ruined
Hey, I am going through a tough time, and everything feels broken and damaged
Ain't no secret to it, thrown the check like a Nike, I just do it
There's no secret to my success and wealth, I simply work hard and pay for it, just like the Nike slogan
Oh my God, oh my God (I don't bullshit no no more)
I am shocked and stunned by how much I've changed, I don't act like a fool anymore
Oh my God, oh my God (think about you all the time)
I am constantly thinking about you, you occupy my mind all the time
Oh my God, oh my God (and I don't care bout my money)
I am so in love with you that money doesn't matter to me, it's insignificant
It'll never be my goal (nothing coming on my own)
My goal in life is not to achieve anything by myself, I want to share everything with you
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Adam King Feeney, Austin Richard Post, Trocon Markous Roberts
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