

“White Iverson” led to Post’s 2016 debut, Stoney beerbongs & bentleys burrowed further into Post’s luxurious, messy melancholy, while 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding found him buttoning up and moving closer to the conventions of mainstream pop, all while retaining his peculiar touch.

He turned a love for the video game Guitar Hero into a love of actual guitar, playing in a metal band during high school while also starting to explore hip-hop.

At live shows, there were no dancers, no pyrotechnics, just Post, in a baggy football jersey with a cigarette in his hand, bringing 60,000 people into his bedroom: The pop star as moody teen.īorn in 1995 in Syracuse, New York, and raised in the suburbs of Dallas, Post grew up on a mix of country, classic rock and rap: In one well-circulated anecdote, young Post would get called into the living room to entertain Dad and friends with the dance to Terror Squad’s “Lean Back”. The bass boomed, the melodies soared, and there was Post in the middle, rap-singing his woes like a lonely prince self-exiled in the castle. His signature tracks-“rockstar”, “Sunflower”, “Congratulations”-were both bleak and beautiful, spaced-out and mainstream, hip-hop but not quite. Post didn’t just look beyond genre, he broke it down, mixing the dark grandeur of trap with the anthemic release of classic rock and country. No matter how Platinum the records go, he still has the air of an ordinary guy, a Crocs-and-Bud Light kid from the suburbs who stumbled backward into fame just by strumming what was in his heart. Plenty has changed, but Post’s appeal is more or less the same. The standard deviation for this track is 17.1.When Austin Post uploaded “White Iverson” to social media in early 2015, he was 19, scrounging for ramen and sleeping in a friend’s closet. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.0/100, a mean average of 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.1/100. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the spot for eight consecutive weeks, later prompting Rolling Stone to call him 'one of the most popular. In September, Malone released the first single from the album, 'Rockstar', featuring 21 Savage. This track is rated in the top 8% of all tracks on . Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter. 21 Savage - Rockstar (Dylan Matthew Remix) Post Malone ft 21 Savage - Rockstar (SKVNDV & WILD FUNK 2K18. (*In practice, some tracks can have several thousand ratings) 21 Savage - Rockstar OKLM Radio Post Malone ft. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average.

Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution.
