He lived in a closet so he could use his bedroom as a music studio. From serving fried chicken to purchasing a $4 million post-apocalyptic bunker, this is the life of Post Malone.
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00:00I do not like my voice. I'm so shy. I'm so shy listening to any of my songs
00:30I
00:48My dad was always playing music not like playing music but listening to music and he put me on like everything
00:53You know, I mean so like Metallica from everything
00:56Folk and funk and rap music. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the story of his
01:01First guitar was his he played guitar hero and that's true. That's the truth
01:06He got so good at it like orange tab and all that that he decided he would learn to play the real guitar
01:12my original plan was right, I think I was 16 something but I was like
01:17I have I'm gonna do a bunch of covers and we're gonna see if anybody likes him
01:22And yeah, but you know, we did some Bob Dylan and I think that's just about it
01:34I recorded a song and I would play it for all my friends. Okay, you know at lunch and like oh, yeah
01:42They started playing it at the parties and everything
01:52This is my alter-ego Leandro Chino, he's big in Brazil, of course
02:01Yeah, I dropped out of there I wasn't very good at school
02:04I moved to LA like a real cool punk kid when he left the house
02:09It was probably ten months before we could go see him and he was literally sleeping on the floor in a walk-in closet
02:14Trying to make music doing whatever. I met some of the folks. I think that's when I met Dre moved out of
02:20His bedroom
02:22To the closet so that he could have everyone could use this bedroom as a studio
02:27when I saw that I was like
02:30Yeah, he wants it
02:50I
03:00People just want to box it in as a genre in itself for me as a rapper
03:04But you know really I'm just an artist and you know, I like to make what I make for sure
03:07D is there a name for it for that like sauce sauce?
03:11I
03:16Was a one-hit wonder but now
03:19being a kid is is hard and then
03:23coming into this world where you're you're
03:26Everybody can see every move that you make is is you know, it's different. It's something it's a new experience and
03:34You know, I've learned so much and I've grown so much
03:41Daddy winner
04:03This is Post Malone's nearly
04:0513,000 square foot four million dollar Cottonwood Heights mansion. It has the basics, you know a gym pool fire pit basketball court
04:13Oh, yeah, it doubles as a post-apocalyptic bunker
04:16He's definitely moving to Utah has made things a lot better for my mental health has been very very good
04:22And it's something that I had to do because I was just kicking
04:25being in Utah and being away from the grind and from you know, everybody else and it's just me with
04:32my video games and
04:34Cold one that feels good to me
04:45I love making music for the longest time. I didn't have any fun anymore. And now I'm happy
04:53I'm so pumped up. Yeah, I'm gonna be a hot dad