Post Malone likes to shake it up. The singer and rapper, who busted out a whole set of grungy Nirvana covers for charity last year, went full country on Monday night (March 22) for Matthew and Camila McConaughey’s “We’re Texas” virtual concert, benefitting fellow Texans impacted by February’s winter storms.
The “Circles” MC fit right in with his dead-on covers of Brad Paisley‘s “I’m Gonna Miss Her” with Dwight Yoakam‘s band as well as his killer take on Sturgill Simpson‘s “You Can Have the Crown.”
The rapper, who was born in upstate New York but raised in Grapevine, Texas, clearly clearly has some country in his soul, from his love of cowboy hats, to private sing-along jam sessions to John Michael Montgomery’s 1995 classic “Sold (The Grundy Country Auction Incident),” chilling in the studio with Luke Combs, performing at the country and western Cheyenne Frontier Days festival in 2019 and his colorful signature stage suits, which pay homage to legendary rhinestone-loving tailor-to-the-Nashville-stars Nudie Cohn.
There’s a reason Posty looked so comfortable strumming alongside such country icons as Willie Nelson and Kacey Musgraves at the McConaughey’s show.
Check out eight other times Malone made his spurs jingle-jangle-jingle below.
Way before we knew him as Post Malone, Austin Richard pulled on an American flag shirt and plucked out a twangy version of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” in the studio:
Performing “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere” on Dwight Yoakam’s SiriusXM radio show in 2018:
Rocking Elvis’ “Baby, What You Want Me To Do” with Keith Urban at 2019’s all-star Elvis tribute:
Strumming out Hank Williams Jr.’s “There’s a Tear in My Beer” on an acoustic guitar:
His unabashed fanboy moment at the 2019 American Music Awards when he sang along to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman”:
Post Malone rocking out to Shania Twain's AMA performance last night is all of us 🤠- 📹 @PostMalone https://t.co/tonUyduotX #AMAs #ShaniaTwain #Posty #PostMalone #Canada pic.twitter.com/JlWunMt90b
— Freshdaily (@freshdaily) November 25, 2019
Hanging backstage with Carrie Underwood and introducing her to his mom last year:
Thanks @postmalone for the hospitality tonight…and for putting on a great show…and for introducing me to your mom. pic.twitter.com/oi5YTdinQ9
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) March 5, 2020
Explaining why he loves country music and teasing that he might make a country album “later down the line,” a sentiment seconded by his label boss, Monte Lipman: (video here)
No big deal, but what he really wants to do is collaborate with country king George Strait, or maybe Toby Keith: