Do we like Post Malone?
Our score: 7 out of 10. No harmful words or campaigning turned up and he has put real money into causes, with one unresolved legal dispute and a thin record on his politics.
Austin Post was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Grapevine, Texas, where he taught himself guitar off Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash records. He worked at a Chicken Express before music took over. Then in 2015 a SoundCloud track called White Iverson went viral, Republic Records signed him, and that was that.
Stoney followed in 2016 and Beerbongs and Bentleys in 2018, which broke streaming records. He told CBS the early criticism of his first hit was hard to take. In 2024 he swerved into country with F-1 Trillion, which has duets with Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton and Dolly Parton.
Now the harm check. We went looking for anything he has said or done against LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants or the planet, and came up empty. The web is full of junk pages speculating about his politics and his private life, but none we found traced back to anything he actually said, so that's tabloid territory at best. The thing to watch is the company: he tours with Jelly Roll, and fans online linked that tour to Jelly Roll's politics, but that is speculation from fans, and nothing in his own statements says so.
On the legal side, songwriter Tyler Arms sued him and producer Frank Dukes over credit on Circles, and the case settled in March 2023 as jury selection began, with terms kept private. Separately, a law firm called Martorell Law alleged he persuaded one of its former clients to drop the firm and settle with him for 350,000 dollars. A 2024 report said the settlement talks had fallen over. No court has found against him and his side of it is not reported in that article.
The recent stoush is a tour wobble. In May 2026 he said on Instagram that the schedule and the album were not lining up, pushed the tour back about three weeks and apologised to ticket holders. Six dates were cancelled, and he wrote that he did not have time to finish the music before the tour started. Some fans read politics into it, but his own words say deadlines.
The good stuff is real. In 2020 he let fans pick charities for a 1 million dollar giving drive, covering causes like hunger, homelessness, mental health and veterans. In 2025 he and Raising Cane's founder Todd Graves handed 500,000 dollars to Notes for Notes, which builds free recording studios for kids. And in February 2026 he called a 14 dollar beer at his free Bud Light show “absolutely unacceptable at a Bud Light show” and offered to cover the tab.