Post Malone has apparently found a home in country music. Less than a year after Post Malone released his 18-track F-1 Trillion album, along with his F-1 Trillion: Long Bed with nine more songs, Post Malone he is already working on another country album.
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"We just have fun," Post Malone tells Billboard of working on his record with people like Ernest, HARDY, Thomas Rhett and more. "We just sit and f—ing talk and make songs. And so I'm pretty excited for the new record already."
The New York native, who now calls Los Angeles home, has already made two trips to Nashville to work on his next record.
"[I] made probably 35 songs," Post Malone reveals. "It's just a matter of which one's rock, and which one's sock."
Some might have initially been skeptical about the rapper's foray into country music. But far from being a media stunt, it was something he had been planning for some time.
"I said in an interview a while ago, 'When I'm 30 years old, I'm gonna make a country record,'" he recalls. "And I made it at 29, so I wasn't too far off. But you know, it just happened naturally. I was like ... 'Let's go to Nashville. Let's give it a go.' I think finally bringing the fun back into what I was doing really showed on the record. And I think a lot of folks had fun listening to it. And we're going to attempt to do it again. I'm excited to keep going."
Post Malone's Acceptance Into Country Music
Post Malone might have raised some eyebrows by saying he wanted to make a country album, but he was wholeheartedly accepted by the artists within the genre, including by Lainey Wilson. Wilson praised both Post Malone and Beyoncé for making country music.
"I'm proud of it," she tells NME, adding that country music will only be better for having them be a part of it.
"So many people are finding out that they love country music who didn't know they liked it at all," Wilson says. "Artists like Post and Beyoncé are introducing their audiences to this kind of music, and it's only done good things for the genre. It's cool to see."
Brad Paisley has also been welcoming to Post Malone. It was Paisley who invited Post Malone to make his Grand Ole Opry debut last year.
