Final month Nashville shut down its legendary Broadway for Submit Malone, one of many greatest pop stars on the planet, who can be singing with one of many greatest names in nation. “We’re taking pictures a video with Mr. Luke Combs,” Malone mentioned. “We’re gonna be performing on the back of a semi-truck.”
Malone’s duet with Combs, “Guy For That,” is featured on Malone’s new album, “F-1 Trillion.” It additionally additionally consists of duets with different nation superstars, together with Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton and Dolly Parton.
Stars like Combs signed up fast for Malone’s nation album. “I heard he was gonna be working on this thing and I just wanted to be part of it,” Combs mentioned. “Big times for country music!”
“Everyone here was so accepting and kind,” Malone mentioned.
“That’s a testament to you,” mentioned CBS Information‘ Anthony Mason in a brand new interview for CBS Sunday Morning.
“I disagree. I think that’s a testament to them,” he replied.
Submit Malone wasn’t met with that type of acceptance to start with. In 2015, when his hip hop monitor “White Iverson” dropped on the web and went viral, he was known as a “culture vulture,” and a “one hit wonder.”
And the way did that response make him really feel? “It sucked,” he mentioned. “I was a kid.” He handled it by ingesting, rather a lot.
“Did you take it personally?” Mason requested.
“Absolutely,” mentioned Malone. “It’s hard not to.”
However he stored writing hit songs. “It’s not for the people who hate you,” he defined. “It’s for the people who love you, and for yourself, you know what I mean?”
A decade later, he now has greater than 40 billion streams on Spotify, and 6 #1 hits, together with a hip hop monitor (“Rockstar” with 21 Savage), a pop track (“Circles”), and most just lately a rustic tune (“I Had Some Help” with Morgan Wallen)
Throughout Malone’s knuckles are tattooed an eclectic assortment of heroes: George Harrison, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley. “They’re all dead dudes, by the way,” he mentioned. However dudes which can be vital to him.
Austin Richard Submit (he added Malone as a stage title) grew up in Dallas, the place his dad managed concessions for the Cowboys.
Requested what made him need to play guitar, he replied, “Guitar Hero. It was, 100%. And I was like, ‘Alright, let me get a real guitar and see if it translates.’ And it did not!”
However he began writing, and located what Rolling Stone would name “a gift for turning dreamy darkness into Top 40 gold.” “You’re making a baby with sound waves,” he mentioned, “which is neat, I think.”
He has a child now – a two-year-old daughter he sings about within the new track, “Yours”:
Yesterday she mentioned her first phrase
She’s a good distance from “I do”
Proper now, she runs at me
Someday she’ll run to you
And it will likely be your greatest day,
however it’s gonna be my worst
You would possibly watch her strolling in direction of you,
however I noticed her strolling first
And he or she is perhaps sporting white,
however her first gown, it was pink
She is perhaps your higher half,
however she’s my every part
We’ll each love her perpetually,
however I liked her lengthy earlier than
And someday I do know I will give her away
Buddy, that do not imply she’s yours
“Yours” by Submit Malone
Mason requested, “You’re already envisioning your daughter getting married?”
“I think about it a lot!”
“Is this the first song you’ve written about your daughter?”
“No sir, I’ve written a whole lotta songs,” Malone mentioned.
He retains her title personal, however her initials are tattooed on his brow – proper by his mind. “I’ll never forget her. If you heard her cry, you’ll never forget her, either! It changes you in the best way ever. And the most beautiful thing is, she has a beautiful mom.”
He says each ladies saved his life: “Four years ago I was on a rough path.”
“What were you wrestling with then?” Mason requested.
“Everything,” Malone replied. “It was terrible.”
“You were already really successful.”
“Yes, sir.”
“So, what was troubling you?”
“That’s a good question,” he mentioned. “Just loneliness.”
Malone says he was spiraling downward: “Gettin’ up, havin’ a good cry, drinkin,’ and then goin’ living your life. And then whenever you go lay down, drinkin’ some more and having a good cry. And just like, ‘I gotta wake up tomorrow and do this again.’ And I don’t feel like that anymore. And it’s the most amazing thing.”
“I’m sorry you went through that,” mentioned Mason.
“That’s alright. I needed to for myself, to figure who I am.”
At 29, Submit Malone (who followers affectionately name Posty) is now probably the most standard musicians on the planet. But, backstage earlier than a gig in Nashville final month, he was nervous: “I got a big pit in my stomach, like, ready to go, big butterflies.”
However “Posty” has an intimate relationship along with his followers. He ceaselessly tells his viewers that they’re liked. “It’s important, because not everyone knows it,” he mentioned. “There’s a lot of very, I think, lonely people.”
“Are you trying to give people something that you yourself have at times felt missing?” Mason requested.
“I think so. Yes, sir. I think that’s a good way to put it. Because I don’t want people to feel how I’ve felt. And I know they do. And I’m here and I’m on stage and I just want everyone to feel welcome and to feel loved. And that’s the most important thing for me.”
“And the love you get back is just as important?”
Malone replied, “I cannot even believe it, the place that I’m in.”
This story was initially revealed by CBS Information on Aug. 11.
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