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'White Iverson' is, in part, a reference to the professional basketball player Allen Iverson. Post recorded the song two days after writing it. He met 1st and Rich from FKi and Rex Kudo who produced several of Post's tracks, including 'White Iverson'. While living in San Fernando Valley, Austin met 1st Down of FKi. Several members of the group, including Post, moved into a house in San Fernando Valley together. After moving to LA, Post, Probst, and several other producers and artists formed the music group BLCKVRD and recorded music together. The name was rumored to be a reference to the professional basketball player Karl Malone, but Post later explained that while 'Post' is his last name, he used a 'rap name generator' to get 'Malone'. According to Post, he chose Post Malone as his stage name when he was 14 or 15. After leaving college, Post moved to Los Angeles, California, with his longtime friend Jason Probst, a professional game streamer. He enrolled in Tarrant County College but dropped out. He worked at a Chicken Express as a teenager. He showed it to some of his classmates at Grapevine High School.He was voted 'Most Likely to Become Famous' by his classmates as a senior in high school. At 16, using Audacity, Post created his first mixtape, Young and After Them Riches. Soon after, he says he transitioned to softer rock as well as hip-hop, before beginning to experiment on FL Studio. According to Post, his very first foray into professional music began when he was in a heavy metal band. Post has always had a love for emo music, and appeared for a DJ set at Emo Nite in Los Angeles in June 2017, playing My Chemical Romance at the event.

He credited his initial interest in learning guitar to the popular video game Guitar Hero. Post began to play the guitar and auditioned for the band Crown the Empire in 2010, but was rejected after his guitar strings broke during the audition. When Post was nine years old, he moved to Grapevine, Texas, with his father and stepmother Jodie, after his father became the manager of concessions for the Dallas Cowboys. He is of Polish, English, and Scottish descent.

His father had been a disc jockey in his youth and introduced Post to many different genres of music including hip-hop, country, and rock. Post was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Nicole Frazier Lake, from Walton, NY, and Rich Post. Austin Richard Post, known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.