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But it wasn't an overnight success. You've been grinding. Yeah, man, it's been. I'm twenty two, so I moved out here when I was like 18. But I've been making music since I was like 12. So it's been, you know, just I've been in every type of band you could think of. And then just finally, something clicked. You know, I have a to tell a story about how you and I can make it real quick. And then we'll jump because I know you've done a lot of interviews. You've been talking about your past. And I don't want to cover all the stories that everybody else talked about. And probably neither do you. And we was on one phone call. Well, let me get to the text messages. We started off with some direct messages on Twitter. All of a sudden, I'm at the house. A couple weeks ago was a couple of months. The bet awards were going on, and all of a sudden my Twitter timeline starts blowing up and I'm like, Man, what's up? I said, I must have said something really cool, right? It wasn't me. It was you. And you had worn a license to Debbie Debbie, even as a stone cold Steve Austin. Best to the BET Awards. And then you performed. Yes, sir. With the Migos. And so, man, all of a sudden I said, Let me look this dude up because man, I'm 52 and so I'm stuck in the 80s, 90s, you know, just at hard rock stuff and stuff like, you look great. Post Malone, I was like, Shoot, I looked at it on Twitter, Hey man, a deuce follows me, so I followed you back. And then all of a sudden you said, f ing legend. What an honor. I direct message you. I said the vest was epic and posted. I had to show some love. Let's crack a cone sometime. I said, I do a podcast twice a week. If you're interested in shooting the breeze, let me know. He goes, Bro, I'd be honored. Shoot me a text. It'd be a dream come true. And I said, You live in L.A., you go. Yes, sir. Did you just text me? I said, Yep, and then we was off. Got it, got him. It's good stuff, but they do, too. How do you get acquainted with me coming up in your formative years? You're only 22. I've been done for 14 years. You come up in upstate New York, moved down to Grand Prairie Dallas Fort Worth area. When do you start watching wrestling? I don't know. I've been watching wrestling for a long time. I mean, you know, I think it was more whenever I moved to Dallas and like because I moved to Dallas when I was nine. So it's like, I guess, just growing up and watching like, I don't even. So you stopped. What year did you start? About 2003, and I would need more time, I guess got to just doing some stuff because I'm 95. So I mean, mostly just like you made such a such a culture for like just sticking it to them. And we love it and I love beer. So, you know, we just clicked on that level and just watching like highlights and all that good stuff, man, you just a legend. I mean, here's the thing I got my own beer is broken skull IPA. Post Malone drinks Bud Light. He brought luck to packs a 12 pack, but what is it? Yeah, it's 96. Yeah, that's approximately 30 post rolled in here and all that beer said, Man, I'm on a diet, but I'm going to have one with you just because I can't get to guys like us here either. Manager Ben is here with us. Cheers to you, man. Congratulations on all your success and all your hard work. I want to talk about Darby. Here's what could be done in a bad batch. A good bad ain't a bad beer. It's a good beer. It ain't a bad beer. I got no. Hey, or you want to start me? Know I want to ask you about all your musical influences. God, I mean God knowing, man, you start off in New York getting dinner Texas. I know for a while you begin to country music and you still in everything. Yeah, yeah. We love what defined who created your sound. I mean, growing up, my dad was super into like he was a metal head and he got me on Talakai and Megadeth. And you know, not only that, but like Ice-T, NWA, Big Biggie, all that stuff. And then my mom was more to country side because she would always have Tim McGraw and Toby Keith, Toby Keith, the legend. And, you know, just all that good stuff. And I guess whenever I moved to Texas, I kind of really got into Hank Senior and like George Jones and just, you know, like the older stuff and Johnny and stuff. So I mean, I guess when I make my music, it all comes together in a weird, weird way. Do that, how does somebody your age get hit? How does somebody your age get hooked on Hank Senior? Because a lot of people don't get that sound right? No, you can't. It's evolved and it's kind of evolved a little too much. Right? And I agree with you and I say that like pop country sucks, right? I hate the new country. I can't. I think 2000, 2000 to 2005 is the furthest that I'll go. Like, I don't have no problem with like the newer Tim McGraw or like, you know, something like, but these artists now it's not even country anymore. It's pop music. A while back, I was watching an interview. You did I forget what your radio station was? But Peter Rosenberg was there as well. And I know Peter, he's a good guy. You know, he knows. Yeah, he's a big wrestling fan. So I know about his big music guy. Yeah, he's he's hip hop. He's very smart. And you were saying all of a sudden you said Tim McGraw was one of your favorites, and he's what's your favorite Tim McGraw song? I said, I know he's going say in and out loud. Sure enough, as what you said. Yeah. I don't know if you remember. It was with Ebro. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's good stuff. Good stuff. But I knew at all the Tim McGraw songs. I said that he's got to say that. And you did. It's a great song, I think. I don't know. I just I just went by the beat. Yeah. Very, very into angry all the time right now to you. Are he is. No, I am. You are. Yeah, why? That's I just. The song is just super good. I don't even know. It just makes me like, I'll get hammered and have like 40 beers, and I just cry and hold my beer up to the sky and sing that song all the time. I can't relate to any of the lyrics, but I can relate to the pain, but it's a great song. Hey, man, when you roll up on my sidewalk over here, oh, you're buying a drink of water and I expected you to be, yeah, if you ever get any athletics or anything. Oh, Football Inquisition. Eighth grade left tackle a big boy. Back then, everybody thought I was going to be. What do you make of it in high school? Two hundred, I'd say 180 180. Yeah, coming out of high school 180. Now I'm a solid like 215. Do you follow any sports or anything? Yeah. I'm a big I'm a big Cowboys fan, big mass and my dad's works for the Cowboys. So that's why we moved to Texas was because he got a job over there. So I'm the biggest Cowboys fan. So when you guys pull out in New York, I mean, what did you think about Texas? He's like, Hey, man, this sucks or this is different or it's way different because upstate New York is kind of like super, very like country, like everybody's driving tractors down the road and stuff because I was like, more up near Walton. OK, so it's like kind of outside of Syracuse, and that's up there. And I guess that's when my mom loved country because my grandma raised everybody on that too. So, you know, it's different. And I kind of moved to the suburbs of Dallas like, like 12 minute drive to Dallas. It was way different. It was way hotter. The weather was way crazy out there. Where are you from? Dude, I was born in Austin, Texas. And then, you know, my parents split up. We went down between Houston and Corpus and still down here. And then I end up in San Antonio for a long time. And then after I got arrested business, I ended up out here and I did get weather out here. But LA's a big city. I'm not too much on a big city, but you've been here for what, now? Four or five years? Three. Almost four. How are you making the transition? Are you there yet? I mean, you got to love the weather. Yeah, I mean, the weather's good stuff. It's just it's a good. It's fun to party. But then you realize that I'm not. A lot of people here are as genuine as they would have been in Texas. You know, it's just different, different mindset, different way of being raised. Yeah, but a part of that, I think, is, I mean, there's good folks in L.A., but I think, you know, when you get in the show business aspect, I mean, dude is like, what have you done for me, right? Or right now? Right, exactly. It's like, No, it's it's rare to actually meet somebody from L.A. that lives in L.A. So whenever you meet somebody like, Oh, I'm from L.A., that's crazy. Yeah, because everybody comes here, they want their shop or they came here. Yeah, after they kind of almost got their shot and they're just here to, you know, prosper more of that, which is cool. Hey, man, let me ask you this. You roll up over here in a Rolls Royce. Yes, sir. And post now we're text messaging each other the other day. Same in Texas said, Hey man, I set you up for doing a podcast on Saturday. He goes, Yeah, man, I'll be there. I said, what? He said, What time? I said, What about 1:00 o'clock? He goes, All right. And then you sent me a picture, y'all part. And it was like 7:30 in the morning. I was up drinking coffee. I was about to get my workout. We're filming my show like, man has got a party and you don't even remember talking to me. So I'm at my house while I go, and after that I get a text. Oh, M.W., and I'm thinking, Man, oh, I did Omaha on my vest at WrestleMania 19, right? Whatever it was with rock as it was my one more round. And I think I think it means on my way, right? And he's on his way. But since I hadn't heard, yeah, it's like, I didn't. I mean, I wasn't even prepped. I wouldn't. This is not a world that guy, the guy from the picture was the one that gave me the vest because he had the vest. I don't want to sound blasphemous, but he had the vest on like he just bought it online. Yeah, and he had it came in like a square glass jewel case, and I was like, Hey, man, how much you want for the vest? Let me buy this vest right now because Stone calls my favorite and he's like, I don't know, man, I say I get two thousand bucks right now. So he gave me the vest. I cut it out. I wore it and I felt the power channeled through me. And I said, You know what? I have to wear this on national TV because I feel this power. I felt like I couldn't stand anybody at the BET Awards. What was the reaction? Because it blew up? I couldn't believe it. I mean, everybody liked it. Yeah, I mean, I don't think I don't think you have any haters. I don't know. I'll remember this back in the day when I was still running real hot back in the day, if I went to like MTV Awards or this ad or whatever. You know, I would wear, you know, my vest that I went to the ring and wore a pair of jeans. And dude, I wasn't. I wasn't dressed. No, no. You know, regular grownup shirt or polo. Nothing like I wore. My vest was not known underneath and I had a gold chain on because I was living the gimmick. So about when nobody on changed me because I was going to an awards show. And I think because I was so in the moment, dude, I lived eight, slept and breathed the wrestling business over when I went to an awards show. The couple that I wouldn't do, I was wearing my right. So you busted out of them, and that's pretty cool. That's a ballsy move for somebody to make, right? Either. Rock it out, man. Is that now? Is that vest like real? Oh yeah, man. I got a couple next door, I'll show you. They're all made out of black leather and that the silver honor was melted blue and the seamstress. Her name is Terry Anderson. She still works for Debbie Debbie, who designed all that stuff. And I would just say, Hey, put Austin here and do 3:16 here. And I stuck with three letters wed be a massive S.O.B. or whatever. I would tell her where to put it, and she would make them, but she's one. It came up with that skull design. I mean, she's she's awesome at what she does. There it is. This year I got to take this black gold Texas flag right on his arm. But anyway, you're 22. Yes, sir. Tell me about your upswing ! As far as gaining some 4-1-1 and knowledge in the show business, our entertainment industry, especially in the music making business, because you're 22 men of Sun, man, I hear all about you and I started making music. I got your whole album on my iPhone, downloaded on iTunes in my office, and I start, Why do I ever should go flash the my god thing man? And all of a sudden you got hundreds of millions. Like right now what? Iverson has three hundred seventy eight million hits and there's a Flex hundred and seventeen million, the same with because White Iverson, whenever I put that song, I was 18 GS. So it's like that. And then just overnight I woke up and it really was the most random thing and I couldn't have been any more lucky. Like, I don't know, there's so many more people out there that deserve it way more than me, but just you just got a timing and all that stuff. So it's like I put the song out and I woke up and it was just gone crazy. Like Wiz Khalifa tweeted at Mac, Miller tweeted it. And then just next thing I know I got signed and everybody thought I was going to be a one hit wonder. And, you know, then we put out a almost two times platinum album and, you know, two billion streams. And just like, you know, it's crazy. Just I've never really like, I'm supposed to be in college right now. I never really got to like experience the growing up phase of going into adulthood and being able to make mistakes and all that stuff because, you know, I'm still young. I made a lot of mistakes, like I've signed contracts that I shouldn't have. And luckily, that didn't ruin everything because you're young and you're just dumb and you just OK, cool. Give me some money and then I'm cool. But then you realize in the long term that wasn't enough money. Exactly, exactly. It's not enough, whether you like whenever you're broke and you're like looking through your friend's car to find quarters for cigarettes, you don't realize that like, hey, $10000 ain't that much money. Yeah, on one hand, it is, but in a big way. You know what you do and examine industry. It ain't nothing, actually. That's what I remember, and I call it the all star and rock and roll artist contract because I signed a couple of them back in my restaurant. It's the same thing. It's a parallel, right? But then all of a sudden you got to get some smarts. Are you got to get a lawyer to help you sort through this stuff? Because all of a sudden manny the guilt trip in you are, you know, playing this song and dance for you. And it's, you know, it's all about them. Put more money in their pockets and they want to put yourself one time. A guy told me his promoter, he Steve. As a promoter, you never want a talent to know what they're worth. And boy, as soon as he said that the lights went off in my head, it's like, I get it, I understand the game now. You just explained it to me. So, you know, that's part of the process. So how have you surround yourself with the right people to keep you on the rails? Because right now you're 22. I know you're drinking a whole bunch of beer, you're having a good time, but you can't. You can't lose sight of where you want to go or you get caught up in a turbine and you get out. So what's keeping your level, man? It's it's it's a lot of. It's a lot of you got to think of like, what would this person do or say when I'm not around? So it's like if I don't think that this person is really putting on for me or like really has my back whenever I'm not around, you can't keep them around. Like whenever I was, I moved to L.A. I was 18, so my manager, Dre. I met him and he seemed to show genuine interest, I had no music out, no one in the whole world has ever heard my music, but he actually liked me as a person and liked what I had, you know, stored away. And he was just like, Let's rock, and he's been here for, you know, little little under four years, and it's important meeting new people that you come in with. I guess like a grain of a grain of salt and just think about like what their main reason is for being around you and how will you are what happened as far as the process goes? You come out with what I've seen, the rest of the stuff which I'll put out, right? And all of a sudden man, hundreds of millions of hits, views, streams, billions. And like I said, when you put that out, we use 18 right now, only 22. So man, really, your world almost changes overnight. Yeah. So how did a community, the music community or the entertainment world accept you? Because I mean, you're kind of a hybrid of a lot of different musical styles? Yeah. And that was definitely a tough, especially in the hip hop game being 18 year old white kid. People want to try so hard to prove that it's not genuine. But I think that especially now that the genre has taken so many different strides to just, you know, to make it no genre. So there's no genre, it's just music. And I think it's important that we incorporate like, you know, old stuff and new stuff and just everything in between and make a sound that really no one's ever heard because it's so easy to make a cookie-cutter song. It's so easy to just start a new song that everybody's heard before, you know what I mean? But you know, there was a lot of doubters that didn't want to see me win, and I went through trials and all the tribulations and everything. But I just, you know, Hey, I'm me, there's nothing else. There's no one else that I want to be. There's no one else that I can possibly be. Did you ever have a Plan B or was just, I mean, you just want to make music, right? When I got the best pro resume, I just want to be a wrestler. Turned out it worked out pretty good. Did you when you got into the music business or you found out you had a talent for music, right? Is, Hey man, I want to be a superstar or you just want to make music? What is it? Right? I mean, I honestly never thought that I would be famous. I mean, it was either making music for a living or working at Chicken Express, you know, Chicken Express. Yeah, that's what I used to work. So I moved. My friend Jason moved out to L.A. right to because he made YouTube videos. So I moved out with him, and I didn't tell my parents until two weeks before I was moving. So I was like, Hey, I'm going to L.A., I'm dropping out of college. I went to school for like two months. It wasn't for me. So I said, hopefully it works out. And I would lie to them and say, Yo, I'm working on this new project like, Oh, it's gone, so good. Then I just got lucky, man. One college, where are you going to TCC? Got kind of many guys. I was right down the road from I was in the North Texas. Yeah, yeah. So I study. I had no clue. I had no major. And no, I'm just guessing that you didn't do it out of another. And I realized school wasn't for me. I literally failed everything. You know, where did you start part in our drinking beer and like in the lifestyle you're in right now? And are you two? You're in the rock and roll right now. Are you hip hop? Whatever you wanna call it, right? It's the same stuff nowadays. Yeah, rock and roll. Yeah, OK, hip hop from the same page. I mean, I went to my friend Drew Cohen's house. Sophomore year, and that's when I had my first. We started with Pete Rock. I said that was too wussy, so I needed. But we used to do a natty ice right in the natural ice. That's a good sign. And they're done. Yeah, that's a good that you can get a 30 Rock for, like 10 bucks. That's where I had advised lenses. But yeah, it was good stuff, man playing beer pong, doing beer bongs, and it's getting weird. But you know, it all carried over because that's who I am. It's not going to change. So I'm going to be drinking beer till I'm 80. I'll stop at 80. Do you drink the hard stuff like I'm I have my beer IPA was my flavor of choice, but I also like, I like bourbon. So I'm kind of in a bourbon phase where, you know, once a week or twice a week, whatever it is, I told you, I'm in the process of getting in shape, so I got to watch what I'm doing, but I like to sip on whiskey and stuff like that. Do you do you mess with the hard stuff or are you just a beer guy? I like I like vodka, but I can't drink vodka straight. There was a time where I could drink vodka straight, but I don't know what happened to me. I became a wussy over time. But now I can. I'd like I like a nice screwdriver and someone told me a story about you. I don't bring it. I don't remember. I guess. I don't remember who it was, but he it was like early flight. He got on the airplane. He sat down in first class and he turns to either his right or left, and he sees you in the hat and sunglasses on. And the lady comes by asking for some drinks and you say, I'll have a double screwdriver, no orange juice. And from then on, I just say that to everybody else, just just a frog's heroines, you know, they only give you one wondering for you to go. Sometimes I'll make sure it's double right. But dude, I want to go ahead and get a little bit of relaxed going off with a pile of rubble. So that was probably a true story. Double screwdriver? No, OJ, we love it. It's okay, man. In the in the song Go Flex. Yeah, you say, Oh man, I'm stone cold with the flesh now. Was that was that in reference to me or just a stone cold reference? Stone Cold, big man. Tough guy him. What possessed you'd write that song? Because this is an interesting set of lyrics getting into that. Where did that come from? Getting picked on? Are you just what I'm going at? You, man? I mean, it's like you just sometimes you just like, forget it. I'm just going to go get hammered, and I'm just going to have fun with my friends and stuff and everybody that's ever talked. So, you know, you know, flexing. I like to drive my Rolls-Royce and doors open and go crazy, let the girls get in and see the stars. So it's just about that. And I say, who's the strongest man in the world? I said stone cold. So that's why I had the shotgun blast off. I had the strongest man or and I'm not going to say you're the strongest man in the room right now. Hey, I'll take out. There's three of us here, and that's just because I definitely beat up Ben. You're making me pretty good. Strap on your big drink of water. Hey, tell me about that Rolls Royce. You can afford anything you want and you want to the top of the line. I got him to do a Rolls Royce and the doors open up backwards. When I was setting your Rolls Royce, that's first time in a damn car that expensive. What did you go through? Did you go to the beverages? And now I'm going to the Magliari. I want a two door Rolls Royce, and that's what I'm from originally. I didn't know what I wanted because I knew if I was going to get money, I knew that I wanted some. I'm not too into the fast cars. I like more of a ride where you can fit with the friends in and go, you know, turn up for a ride on the town. But it was either it was either the Bentley Mulsanne, which is like the four door or a Rolls-Royce Phantom. And then I said, You know what a phantom, you need someone driving you. And I didn't always have been here to, you know, put on the chauffeur's cap and take me everywhere. But so I said, I need something that I can drive myself and still feel cool. So I just got the Wraith and it works perfectly. It's fast V12. It's good stuff, man. Now what are people doing? I see that guard. That's the first time I've seen that particular model in my driveway. I'll let you have it. I'll trade you for the Bronco man. I tell you what, you might have to rustle up a little bit of cash as a valet. I'll tell you what if you want to go Bronco four Rolls Royce, that's a trade I'll make. That's right. Let's go. Yeah. Hey, you're always talking about getting weird. You can put that thing in four wheel location. The five. We love it. Hey, I was going to ask you about when I'm all over the place. This is a podcast that I would have no idea is going to happen. Post sent that text message this morning. He's on his way and I'm like, I called him. I said, Dude, I said, I ain't no homework. He goes, We can do it on another day. I'm like, No man. I mean, I could use a podcast now, but you have to carry me for an hour, right? So we decided to go ahead and hook. When y'all filmed White Iverson, yeah, y'all, that's gender roles. Yeah, that's a rose, y'all are doing white rolls in your donuts. What was that? Joshua Tree or Palm Desert? Well, somewhere out over yonder, somewhere in the desert, a desert. It's like, yeah, it's like an hour out of town. How long did it take to shoot that damn thing? This amazing video and it's a great song, but your bottom line is y'all did not have a Rolls Royce, right? So do you go lease $500000 cars? Hey, man, I'm on the deal. We're going to be allowed to say we'll wash it before we bring it back. So we did that work out. We drove out like, like an hour out of town. It was my friend drama from young and reckless and from Robin big and all that stuff. They said, You can use, you can use my car. And I said, OK, there's no way that I'm not going to use the car. Thank you so much. So we take it out. And the next second, we have a professional driver doing crazy thing and just going crazy and running around. They saw the video and apparently Rolls-Royce hit him up and said, Hey, you can't do that. Which I don't understand, because if it's your car, you should be able to do whatever you want. But that's just the story that they told me. But you know, I love drama for, let me take it and they said they was watching it down and they found a bunch of weird up underneath it, like a like a Barbie doll and like panties and all that stuff underneath it whenever they watched it afterwards. But it wasn't me. I don't play with Barbie dolls and I don't wear panties, so that's a good thing to hear. Well, you said you want to get weird, homie. We're getting really weird. Yes? Hey, on a creative process on a video like that, it's shot epically. You're doing your thing and then you know, you got to do your singing. You are driving and you it all together, who comes up with the concept for that? Sometimes it's me. I've become recently with the videos that they are now. I've had way more of a hands on creative process because I I'm kind of sick of just like. You know, rap videos being the standard performance shot to where it's just you in front of a camera with a car and you just rapping. I mean, it works, it works. But it's not going to be something that really like represents me at certain times it is. But not all the time. So like, I've been really like hands on directing my videos myself, like thinking of just concepts and all that stuff. But James, the final does a lot of it. He's got the camera that they shot the have it on the red or whatever. It's good stuff. It makes everything look good. You could literally fart on camera and make it look like a very epic movie, right? But you know, it's just good stuff. You know, it's just it's it's collaboration between me and whoever is shooting the video and whoever is creative directing the video. Hey, man, would you be in a kind of on fire as you are right now? What's the collaboration process like? Because I know you all of sudden you got it kind of got a relationship, struck up friendship with Justin Bieber and Kanye West, 50 cent rotten names that I can't even remember off the top of my head right now. So also, when you get hired, do these people reach out to you? Or because you're the young buck, you got to reach out to them right across? How does that happen? Well, it kind of happens like especially nowadays with social media and stuff. It's so easy to just. You know, get to get together and especially, you know, my manager always kills it, so it's like they'll say, Yo, Quavo wants to get into the studio, which is the guy that I may congratulations with and who I perform wearing the vest with. Yup. So we just get into the studio and kind of like vibe out for a little bit. We never met each other. You know, it's just like different stuff. These rappers don't drink beer, so I got him drinking a Bud Light. We're all having a good time. We're just chillin, hanging out and then Metro Boomin in the studio or was in the studio to. He made the beat. So he played this beaten me like, this is perfect. So then I get in there and sing what I have to sing. But it's usually just mumbles. You mumble until you find a melody that you like. And then he goes in and does the same thing. But I mean, you know, it's just like, it's just like if if you have something in common or if you like if you like with each other and two different sides, it'll come together naturally, somehow. You know, you can't really force it. Like, I couldn't force this. I'm not going to yell like, let me get on your podcast. You know, it's just going to happen naturally. Eventually, you know, whether you know it or not. Hey, I got more quick. Last post post is sitting right across the table from me. I ain't got no furniture in my house. Three chairs and a table. It's very minimalist metal. Kanye West. When you come back, if you see, I will see what I did there. When you come back, Ray is my bad. Yeah, no. I'm just going to put spin here, but I want to talk to you about, you know, your style, your image, how you created, you know, the persona because you ain't wasted no money on clothes. You got a good looking pair of jeans of Levi boots, you got a Miller high life beer delivery shirt on. I think the Lootcase, these are the most expensive. I've got to have that shirt, but you're wasting your money on threads. No, come back. Let's take a positive car since sponsor. Keep a show on the air two times a week for people to download his podcast. And that's the bottom line. I'm coming right back with Post Malone. Oh, the Steve Austin show, the Steve Austin. Post Malone comes back in a room. I want to ask you about all the tattoos and the persona and how because there's a couple of different theories on how you came up with the Post Malone because your real name is Austin Austin. Post Office post. So you just moved the post in front of that, and that was it. I mean, I was probably 14 15 when I first started, like rapping over my own beats. So I was like, I need a name. I need a cool, very cool, funky, fresh, hip hop type name. So I put my put Austin post in a rap name generator, and I came out with Post Malone and I just stuck with it. I didn't know they had a rap, and we need you to dig this man because you're young cat. You know, when I was growing up, I wanted to be in rock and roll because I want to be, you know, a lead singer. Turns out I can't sing. And my dad played in a country western man who was a guitarist. Old school chords. And you know, it was good. But anyway, you tried to teach me how to play guitar, but I didn't apply myself, so I didn't, you know, turn into a lead guitarist. Right? And then I figured, Well, I still want to be in the music business. I'll play bass guitar because guys got to let strings. It'll be easier and it's very easy and well, it may be easier for you and my parents would new. I'd make too much noise if they bought me a drum kit, so kill my dreams of being in the music business. So it turned out pretty good because, right, the you happened to work for me. How did you come up with, OK, you got the cool name right? And I didn't know that there was a rap name generator. I would put all my notes. Let's see what it comes up on me. Oh yeah, we got Apple in one phone. Isn't that just like a rap name generator? We'll see where the wave generator works, Steve. Is that your real name? Steve Austin? Yes, sir. And they couldn't have worked any better. It turned out OK. Yeah. Can you have the the ultimate name of all time? Let's see. Welcome to my rap name. This was the same one. There we go. Steve Austin. Suggest male rap name, your rap name is rich Stevie Power Slab, a.k.a. Yo Fist, as if you're trying to be trying to get into. All right, from now, you can call me rich Stevie Power slab, a.k.a. yo fish. But you have yet to say the whole home every time, every single day. What is it to you? Right? If I'm older, you should know if you got any green Eminem's in there. I ain't coming out red Stevie Power Slab a.k.a. your fist. Hey, who develops application? And let me ask you a question posed to Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick. You got a Rolls Royce PA to my driveway. It's a half million dollar car, I'm guessing, and you got an iPhone 4S? Yeah, I know some, but it's actually six. Don't I just can't see it right now. Somebody you me to kill you. Damn golf, as we would say in a restaurant, but I'm rocking the seven points over here, brother. Oh, no, that's that's Big Brother. And I'm riding around in a $10000 Ford Bronco, too. It's good stuff. That's good stuff, man. You know? Hey, what do you spend your money on? You throw it out the window. You save it. Where are you at? There's a lot of things. I spend a lot of my money on guns. Half of my money is guns. Half of my money. Gucci suits. I love. I love a nice fitted suit to go to Vegas and you get some blackjack. Yeah, yeah. Hi, Jack goes my game too. But here's the thing. Back in the day, right, man, I just I never split a pair, right? And I just played straight. I didn't give it. My one allows. I just had one hundred dollar limit for the whole night, dude. That's that's how tired I am, right? I tell the waiters, Bring me another drink and always tip, Yeah, well, just kept on coming right and I would entertain myself. So do you throw down big chunks of change? Yeah, man. Last time I went to Vegas, I think I lost like 12 grand I'd crush. Oh no, it's I'm the worst in the world. I had the so I was doing a show in Vegas later that night, so I went to the I got I landed in Vegas around like 8:00 a.m. The show was like at 8:00 p.m. So I just as soon as I landed, I sat down and in the blackjack table I had all cash or big water. Rapper Cash, Big Rod, a rapper money 12 grand. Put it right into my Gucci vest and put my jacket over. I sat down, as I put it there. I went to the high rollers and I thought I was doing good and then I lost it all. But see, there's times. It depends. It depends on how to Earth is rotating and what the planets are saying up there, because one time I put down like 800 bucks went up 12 grand and then I just lost it all anyway. So you just got to know when to quit, but it's hard. Let me ask you this question. Young buck like you shows up dressed in a Gucci got 15 large or whatever it is and your vest. And you start throwing down big amounts of money. I know some people look at you. They never heard anything you got. You get a lot of attention. Yeah. And that's, you know, it's kind of the fun of it. You don't. You don't. You never go to Vegas planning to win big. You just want to have like the Vegas experience with your boys. Like just keep on bringing the Bud Light, bringing bring me two bud lights and a screwdriver and just get hammered and play blackjack. I think blackjack fun. I do, too. I do, too. I loved it. But again, I'm a cheapskate. Do you do you feel like you got a day in any kind of image of being in the business that you're in? I I'll tell you what I used to feel like. You know, being 18 19. I used to feel like if I do something that's against the norm or, you know, out of the way that I would be judged for it. But at this point, man, I just don't really care. And people are going to, you know, appreciate the music more than anything. So if I do something different, then they'll appreciate that and maybe then they'll adapt it themselves and then you'll start a trend that way. It's all just like give and take. So if they see me do something, maybe then they'll do it like I just had bangs. Like, I cut my bangs like real nice and they put me in GQ, which was very, very, do you think posted if I cut my bangs, they would put me in GQ. I think you should just have the shaved head and then just some balance. I think that would be the new look. People ask me all the time on Twitter, What have your eyebrows look? And they it barely there. You can barely see him catching up to their eyeballs. He said, This is ridiculous plucking. Look, it's nothing. I plug in chicken and I plug it bears off my eyebrows. Meticulous. I'm about 30 Rock. The Steve Austin show. The Steve Austin show. She got attention when you're not performing because it seems like you would get enough enough attention because you're in such demand now. But do you need to be noticed? Is it an ego thing for you? Like, Hey man said I'm not being recognized enough, right? Why are you on it? I mean, it depends. I like what I really like to do is feel cool to older people. So like, say, if like I have an older waiter or waitress or whatever, I would tip them highly because I don't want them to think that all young, edgy people are w***es because I'm not. I love people and I just want to show them that like that we can be cool to. You know what I mean? But I mean, other than that, really? No, I don't care. I like I like, like nice stuff. I like cars and I like stuff, but it doesn't really matter to me. Sometimes when you're not making music. Well, let's talk about making music like like when you created this album, do you just wake up with this inspiration and think, Hey, man, this would be a song and you just write some stuff down on paper? How does that happen? Um, I mean, it is really just a lot of Bud Light. So either I'll make a beat like I make a lot of my beats now. And you know, that's the way it started. But then I got into a phase where I was like, These people make such better beats than I do, but now I make cool beats to explain to me about making a beat. I use a program called EFL's Studio. It's super easy is anybody can do it. So I just I went up a program it's called atmosphere. I picked the sound that I like. I put it on shuffle and just go through all the sounds until I find one that that really works. And I'm really into major keys right now because this is very melodic. You can put whatever you want because a lot of this stuff right now is either like, it's super minor and you. You can only do a certain type of very hackneyed, very trite melody over it. So I want to go major and make something that's super catchy and super, you know, killer. So I just opened it up. I can't play piano for so I don't have a mini keyboard or whatever. I just take a note. Put it on a note that sounds good in my head right now. I match the beat to my heartbeat and just go off of that and just see what sounds good trial and error making it sound good. Yeah. And then drum shout out to Metro Boomin, I have Metro Boomin drums. He's the best drums. Damn, that's interesting. How long did it take you to write White Iverson? Because I mean, that's the one that's got almost 400 million views, right? How long? I mean, it's just a cool a*s vibe. It's a great video, but it starts with the song you write. This is like chill. I just write songs like Minutes. That's just cool, right? It's a cool. And it's, you know, it's a crazy song, but like, it's crazy how chill the song is and to see the people at the shows just go nuts, you know, just turn up and go crazy. I made the beat for that one. So I have like two really big songs right now. It's just White Iverson and then the newer song Congratulations, would you? Congratulations was Metro Boomin and Frank Dukes, but White Iverson that was on me. Like, I made that b from scratch and I was like, So I just started. I really wanted to do like a folk song. So like a folk song would like go to a C, C and f like just like that really easy. Like if you had strumming on a guitar, it would be the most simple chord progression. But I wanted to make it super airy and super like you can just do whatever you want over it. So I started making the B and. I started writing the song right there because I had a melody off rep and then it just grew from there. But you get no formal musical instruction. Not really. I just kind of it. It was important for me growing up that. When, like I said, I started partying in sophomore year, but until then, even even then. When people would say, Hey, yo, we're having a party like we're going crazy, like we're going to have fun. Just lock myself in a room and watch. People play Metallica covers like master of Puppets, Covers and like Ride the Lightning covers, and I would watch their fingers and understand that, Hey, this sounds good. This sounds good, and that doesn't sound good whenever I try to play it, so it's just like it's just watching people play. Guitar and and figure stuff out themselves, so I just wanted to see that and say, Hey, if they can do it, I can do it. I've never taken a guitar lesson or a music lesson or anything in my life, just locking yourself in and figuring it out. If I was to go in a Rolls Royce out there and start running, do your playlist. Like Robin, Metallica, Megadeth. I can't not eat a lot of country music influence from Hank Senior George Jones and then obviously all the rappers you've worked with. Man, what's what's your go to stuff or is there or are you all over the place? Isaac is really all over the place, like on the way over. We rocked a lot of Alan Jackson, Jesus Christ, really one more time. This guy, Chattahoochee, we had there. I used to throw my flip flop in the Chattahoochee River, my pit bull to bring back to when I lived in Atlanta. Good work. Good stuff. Good. He was from Newnan, Georgia, right down the road from where I was living. He's a good guy. I mean, you got a chance to meet him. I never met him, but I can tell through his music that he's a good guy. That would be interesting watching you and Alan Jackson. I would love to jam. Yeah, the only the only legend that I really met was Toby. Like, I met up with Toby. I think it was, and he was on tour in Connecticut and it was his birthday and he invited me to go to his show and we sat on on the bus and we jammed Roger Miller and everything and just stuff like that, dude, you're an old soul and a young buying man. It's good stuff and it's good stuff. Hey, we were taking a break while ago when you smoking a cigarette and you asked me about if I still had a place in Texas, I said, No man, I just so let plays. I said, Oh, I'm looking at Nevada. You said you are too. Yeah. So what is attractive in Nevada to you? I guess I'm I'm planning on moving to Elko. You know, up north very know exactly where your very rural, very like what's red was Spring Creek over near that area. I was looking at, you know, there's a lot of stuff and I don't want to say that I'm a doomsday prepper, but I just want to know that whenever that hits the fan, I have a place where I can go and still be safe. So I was looking up at Elko, and it showed that there was no like nuclear winds and no, nothing weird, weird, if anything, hit on the West Coast. Or in the South. So it's just seemed like the perfect place to me, so I looked at a place up there and working on the paperwork right now and we got a nice little drone up there. Damn, dude. So what's going to be the juice as far as getting out of there? Because I'm in Provo within a 75 mile circle of Reno? And because I lived in Elko, Winnemucca, I've looked all over the state because and my brother in law is a professional guide, so he's got it. Every single unit that's been up there. But you're going to fly private in and out because I don't know that Elko has a major airport. They have they have something that flies in from Salt Lake, but they also have not from Salt Lake. There's a thing called jet ski that's kind of like that. You can still you can still not be super baller, but still fly a jet right for a good price to a certain place. So I mean, I mean, even if I did have to fly private, you know, if it's if I'm going to die, if I stay, then I'm good. I'm going to pay as much as I can to get over there. But, you know, I figured the way that I look at a you have three days to get out of the place whenever your credit card and debit card stops working. So it's just stuff I'm I sound crazy. I'm not that crazy. No, you said you would, but you said, Yeah, dude, we live in a crazy. I used to get hit in the head and still cherish for a. You ain't no crazier than that. And I love I was born that way or was beaten into right. Well, what you're seeing is what I am. Right? So I'm with you. You said you like your guns? Yes, sir, man. You know, young cat like you and I grew up hunting and I hang out or some of my friends are three gun shooting champions and tactical people. Yeah. I'm not an expert in anything, but I love to shoot. I want to go to long range shooting school so I can call away and do stuff like that. So like, what do you like to shoot like pistols or just like just playing? I like your pushing. There's a there's a place in it's it's tough to get an automatic firearm. So I like a place in Vegas is called Battlefield Vegas. Have you ever been there? I ran over a car with the tank super baller. They have automatic firearms. You can just shoot and get accustomed to. I don't know, man, I like I love me a good just air with a 60 round jam on it. Nice. You know my the one I got right now got, you know, the geotech with the flip geotech right underneath it so you can flip it and then you can flip it and go, Yeah, Unger's good stuff, man. And I just, you know, Nevada, you can get silencers, you can get automatic weapons. If you know the right people, it's good stuff. So I just, you know, I want to move and it it's over the counter. It's like buying bread or something. So, you know, we love it over there. And I just put it, I just put in for my ranch in Texas, put in for some pressure these days because everything is going on. It takes a year to get your paperwork back in order to get your suppressor first time, maybe to give him a stamp. They screwed up. And then finally, dude, I've been waiting for this press for 10 years now. I've sold my place. I still have a place in Texas about sold my ranch, so I'm like, I can't have this pressure in California, as you know, right? So I'm like, Well, I got a DAMPs or two of my actually, but I can't take delivery of them. So if I get Nevada, yeah, do the thing, make a transfer. And I'm still good because I can't bring that thing to Cali. And that's one thing that you know, sucks about, you know, California. California's a great, great state. But yeah, laws in the universe. Yeah. So it's another reason why you know where I'm looking. It's about a 400 500 mile drive, right? You're going to be a little bit farther, probably, what, 250 past going to Elko, Nevada Las, whatever it is, it is. But I like I like their I like their tax laws, like their gun laws. Yeah, it's good stuff. That's and I took that into fact. I I really wanted to move to Montana. Do I think Montana is one of the most beautiful places in the whole world? But just looking at, you know, like the taxes, the other stuff and the gun laws, it's just not the same. Nevada is seen walking into a grocery store strapped up. We love it. You see, in Texas, you just they just made it so you can carry around a sword. No, I didn't see that. You can carry on a full sword now. It is awesome. I don't want to kill thing, but you know, I'm sure some people make me nervous because I don't know how they're wound or what they've been through, or what kind of day they're having or their wives say, Hey, man, I'm out of here, you know, so you never know what's going to happen. I will. Everybody's list is podcast beer because my phone goes off. That's one of my rules. Post our buddy beer. So if you listen to podcasts and then you've answered a question to Steve Austin show dot com, I'm kidding. I know my own policies. Sometimes man in places just got open carry. I'm like, Oh man, we get it. What's this guy all about? Right? I mean, it's just I'm no, I'm not a psychopath, but I know that there are psychopaths. And even if they don't, if they don't come for me, if they're just going for everybody, you don't know how many lives you could say. It's just it's just like if you if you stay ready, you don't got to get ready. I'm always ready. Always ready. I can take you over, show my backpack any minute. Yes, sir. Hey, man, what are you doing the free time you damn youngster you chasing women everywhere? I mean, you got your music covered. You really had in a good direction. You're in a great place. You've worked hard to get here, right? What are your other passions? I know you love cars and music, right? You know, free time is hard to come by nowadays. You got to make hay while the sun shines. Yeah, exactly. Because you never know. Next day, no one's going to care, right? And next day, no one's going to care. So, Stuart, you can. Now I'm working on the second album, Music I love to make music. I love to write songs on guitar that will never come out. It'll just be me and my guitar in my in my phone notes. And I love to play X-Box. I love to play me a good call of Duty says. Love to watch movies this summer, I sound like the most boring I love to drink. I love to get hammered. I love a good game of beer pong. I just love the kick in. I'm a I'm a man of simple pleasures. That's cool. That's cool. How far down the road do you look at 22 years of age as I speak to you, right? Like you thinking, Hey man, by 30, I want to have done this. Or maybe ultimately, I want to be. I want to be involved in all this other. Or do you look at far down the road? I never did. I went day by day. What's your plan? I mean, it's hard to say by 30. I want this. I mean, it's it's more like. I want this right now. I'm I get this right now, and if I get it, I can focus on the next goal because I've earned it. You know, so as long as as everything is growing and, you know, just getting bigger and getting more solidified and I, you know, more fans and more songs, and I just, I don't know, I just want to I want to be able to have the security to do whatever I want to do. And that's what life is about. If you want to go and you want to, if you want to go to Vegas and spend 12 grand, you should be able to do it. That's all I care about is I just want to be able to I don't want anything stopping me from doing what I want to do in life. And I think that's that's what in our growth is and and that's really what security is and life is about, actually, you should be able to if I wanted to go to the Great Wall of China tomorrow, I can. And that's important because I mean, I don't want to be cruel, but I have any right. Eventually, maybe I will, but it's like. Life is about being able to do what you wanted to do, and that's really all that's important to me. It's just being able to do what I wanted. Hey, man, you're 22. I keep talking about how old you are, and I don't mean to just keep pointing that out, but just just just from your entrance into the music business. And now it being 2017, just from me going back to the old school days, you know, just like I was, I was reading about Fleetwood Mac when I came out with the rumours album. So like 15 or 17 million copies, right? You know, one of the biggest selling albums back in the day of all time. They, you know, things have changed these days, all the downloads right through to those veterans who are still in the music business. It's all changed as all downloads, right? So how has that affected you? Oh, I mean, it's it's it's a lot different. I would love to have been in the Fleetwood Mac days and put out rumours and to be Stevie Nicks boyfriend. But, you know, it's a different time. You know, there's a lot, everything. And you know, what's really important now is not only direct album sales or even digital album sales, but Spotify. Apple Music out of streaming is so like two billion streams. There's a lot of streams. I would not have even gone platinum if it wasn't for streams. It's it's impressive. My album first week sold like 57000. I think something like that, which is just nowhere near. If back then you would to put out an album and it would have sold physical copies, right? Like physical copies, a million physical copies in the first week, it's just different. It's just music is so accessible now, and I'm really happy that, like the RIAA and in other awards, have have realized that and changed it over to something that that is relevant and actually makes sense for nowadays, because there used to be a time where people would never buy an album, they would just go to Pirate Bay and download it. You can have all the music you want for free with no. And then no one's ever going to catch you. I've done it. I've done it. I used to have like 10000 songs I didn't pay a cent for. Yeah, but I think it's super dope that now these streaming services are out there, so you don't have to steal the music. And I don't care if you want to steal my music, I really don't care. But if you want to go to Spotify or Apple Music, it's there and it's way more convenient and getting on your computer, dragging it all the way to your iPhone and listening to it there instead of just blowing up an iPhone that could listen to it. We love it. This has been a podcast. One Production download new episodes of the Steve Austin show every Tuesday at podcast Montcalm. That's podcast Omnicom. All month long on Pluto TV's stream, the biggest Tyler Perry movie spree. Watch your favorites like Madea's Witness Protection and Madea's Big Happy Family. Joy Tyler Perry as he goes on a couples retreat with Sharon Leal in Why Did I Get Married? 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