In an interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, XXL editor-in-chief Vanessa Satten reveals Post Malone’s absence from this year’s XXL Freshman list was due to the rapper’s musician’s apparent plans on leaving Hip Hop for Country.
The Dallas native, whose given name is Austin Post, had a big year in 2015 when he signed to Republic Records following the breakout success of his viral single, “White Iverson.”
This year, he was enlisted as Justin Bieber’s opening act for his Purpose World Tour and also made an appearance on Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo cut, “Fade” with Ty Dolla $ign.
Malone was a previous known fixture among the underground Dallas Hip Hop scene. His name was commonly among the top billed acts at local shows along with other D-Town emcees such as G.U.N., Crit Life and The Outfit, TX.
“We were 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,” Satten says. “We never even discussed playing any music, we never met on it. Once we heard that he wasn’t really acknowledging Hip Hop, especially when they were telling us, ‘We’re going in a Country direction,’ that’s a message that you don’t really wanna be in the Hip Hop world so we’re just gonna let it go.”
As Charlamagne Tha God points out, Post wasn’t always doing Hip Hop and only got a buzz after releasing “White Iverson.” Additionally, there’s a video from 2013 of him performing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.”
He released the FKi-produced single “Go Flex” in April and performed an acoustic version of the song on Jimmy Kimmel which isn’t too far off from the new direction he plans on taking.
“It’s very easy when you’re an artist these days to dabble in Hip Hop and then pull back,” Satten adds.
Watch the full interview with XXL’s editor-and-chief Vanessa Satten on The Breakfast Club below.
One more time. He’s a fucking Culture Vulture.
And what does that make you?
How long before MGK makes his switch?
Most of these dudes favorite “rappers” say they aren’t rappers. Get out of the way.
Stop calling these dudes rappers, it dumbs the game down
bye ni%%@
This is somewhat sad to hear, I really fuck with his shit!! SMH
once again, the black racist DX Mod deleted my comments for saying the truth! He left bc black racist people were discriminating against him! Watch the Breakfast club interview and see how they gave him the RACIST white boy treatment and Charlamage asked him what he has done for Black Lives Matter!!!! If you dont believe me go watch. You can delete my comments all you want you dirty Muthafucka but i’ll keep posting.
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@ the racist poster who uses multiple aliases on HHDX … You probably know him as Bro ,DJF , wj, wise white man , Drake Run Raps etc etc…Dumb ass you seem to think DX gives a f*ck about your racist rants . “Newsflash” they don’t in fact they probably like the race baiting as more site traffic = more advertising revenue . This sites not a charity dumb dumb . You know why your racist posts get deleted because some readers of HHDX click that FLAG next to your 10000 th racist post and when enough readers click that “little flag do you know what happens? ” your posts disappear ….Mind blowing I know .lmao
I thought post malone was pretty dope . But I suppose money talks cant blame him really
country or hip-hop . . . i’ll buy it
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culture vulture?.. you’re a sheep.
Bye, Post Malone. Best of luck in country, but you certainly won’t be missed in hip hop.
Amen!
@YouAreThatStupid no Imnot either one of those guys, you really think thats all the one and same guy? No you are the racist one and people are starting to wake up to the black racist shit thats been going on. It still dont excuse the racist treatment Post Malone got from those racist imbeciles. But you of course will protect them since your a racist urself
Wow, way to take a he said, she said and use it to make yourself a nice clickbait article. Does nobody check facts?