Post Malone has posted a video on his Twitter account addressing the controversy he caused earlier this week when he was quoted telling a Polish outlet, “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”
Post has now clarified the statement with a Twitter video, saying, “Apparently there’s a lot of people saying that I don’t appreciate Hip Hop or that Hip Hop has never made me feel anything and I’m referencing this interview I did in Poland while I was on the European tour.”
Post Malone goes on to say that the answers came from a “beer-tasting interview” and that “of course” he had consumed some alcohol before he spoke.
“Apparently I said ‘Whenever you wanna feel something, don’t listen to Hip Hop,’ and it’s funny because who the fuck am I to tell you ‘don’t listen to this,’ and whenever you wanna feel something ‘don’t listen to this.'”
“What I was saying was,” the 22-year-old continued, “When I wanna sit down and cry I listen to Bob Dylan and his guitar. Just like everyone else, no matter how hard you are, no matter where you’re from, you’re gonna have a time where you sit back and you reflect on your life and you listen to what you wanna listen to. For me, that’s Bob Dylan.”
The “White Iverson” rapper, who has been hit with accusations of cultural appropriation throughout his career, hit back at claims that he is taking advantage of Hip Hop by saying “My last Hip Hop album was fucking Hip Hop, my next Hip Hop album is fucking Hip Hop, I love Hip Hop, I make Hip Hop. I wanna take this genre and stretch it so far that people who may not listen to it listen to it.”
Still, Post stuck to his guns on one issue — that a lot of rappers out there are saying the same shit. He said, “A lot of people, except for a handful of artists, are saying the same shit, they’re not saying anything super meaningful … Never once did I say I don’t appreciate Hip Hop. I’m just trying to make the music that I love.”
Malone’s “Rockstar” collaboration with 21 Savage has topped Billboard’s Hot 100 for six weeks straight and his Stoney album is currently at #4 on the Billboard 200 after 49 weeks.
In case you (or Post) missed it, check out DX’s recent list of new-school lyricists that are worth your time.
Bob Dylan is jevvish. That’s all you need to know. He supports genocide of innocent Palestinian children.
It’s True.
When your entire identity comes from race
Whats so Controversial about it? Of course if you take it out of Context like in your Headline its sounds like it for sure, but all he said was if you want deep and meaningful Content dont listen to the new shit in Hip Hop. How is he lyin or Controversial with that?
He’s white. That’s his ultimate sin: Being white. He can’t do no right because of his race.
Post Malone is 2pac resurrected!
More like incarnated, as a culture vulture
He’s a culture vulture but he already told you that. Dude is only doing this autotune mumble rap bullshit because its simple, easy to make and the masses are eating it up. Wait till he goes Garth Brooks on that ass and completely disowns rap music. He’ll be white Iverson for real… crossover.
Lmao!!!!! That was hilariously brilliant. You made my day lol
He’s making music he likes, and it isnt less “worthy” because more people like it. And black people dont own hip hop, just like Europeans dont own classical music. Culture builds on everything around it including the past, and thats why we are where we are today. Music evolves like culture, everyone will use things from outside influence, its not about race.
Alcohol will bring out the truth sometimes tho
Hes still GARBAGE.
so 2pac didn’t make heartfelt music? what abt scarface? nas? boosie? j cole? even crazy ass joe budden? white ppl stay takin from the culture then they wanna sweep you under the rug. btw post malone YOU ARE NOT HIP-HOP. you’re just another outsider trying to appropriate the swag without having to get too close to the dirt. keep playing your guitar and stfu
LOL @ the haters throwing their back out reacting to this – relax – he is 22, drunk and had a camera on him – this hipster makes better music than most these new artists anyways so that speaks a little louder than being caught slipping drunk in Poland
Im tired of ma fuckers who rap saying im not a rapper. don’t listen to hip hop etc. Be proud youre a rapper and perfect your craft. you can be white and be funky and gangsta. just stop infusing all that white bullshit into hip hop. bring back the funk. only kid rock and limp bizkit can infuse their white bullshit and make it work somehow. I dont know how but they do. icp and twiztid tried the rock/rap thing didnt work for them. specially since those ma fuckers can spit. if youre white and you rap then stick to RAP.
anybody who thought he was hip hop to begin with is a fool. Saw this coming a mile away… nobody respects the culture anymore, nobody is genuine, this is all a show now. He wanted to be a country singer, go look it up on youtube he’s in his room in Texas. BUT – he came to LA, they threw a grill in his mouth and said sing some melodies, and you ALL BOUGHT IT HAHAHAH
BOB DYLAN SUCKS
This dude is foolish. When Immortal Technique dropped dance with the devil it moved people, some even cried coz it told their story. Then you got 2pac dear mama, I aint mad atchu. Ll Cool J I need love, Nas One mic and I can. Jay-z Song Cry! These new rappers is trash!
Kid rock did the same thing this dude is doing, using hiphop to get ahead, now kid rock is straight confedarate flag and acts like hiphop is for lowlives…pink did the same sh8 with R&B……these culture vultures been doing that for years, but we always accept them
I love you retards that talk about the “culture.” Shut the fuck up. This is the same “culture” that calls black kids race traitors for doing well in school instead of acting like a drugged out rapper. The “culture” that tells young black males to shoot people and do drugs. There’s no culture, just unlearned idiots thinking they are revolutionaries.