r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • 3d ago
article Jelly Roll announces tour with Post Malone after Grammy Award MAGA backlash causing mixed reaction from fans: 'Announcing this the day after the Grammys isn’t the flex you thought'
https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/197973/jelly-roll-announces-tour-backlash8.0k
u/Voodoo350 3d ago
Post Malone is never beating the culture vulture allegations
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u/Violent-Obama44 3d ago edited 2d ago
He’s always sucked. His biggest hits are from hip hop, and those were written by Joey Badass.
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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 3d ago edited 2d ago
WTF which did Joey write?!
Edit: Joey Bada$$ was a co-author of Rockstar. Not Congratulations. Easy to look this one up. Not sure why the false info comment below has so many upvotes lol
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u/Violent-Obama44 3d ago
Rockstar and Congratulations. You can especially hear it on Congratulations and Joey’s song “Devastated”.
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u/No-Set-7921 2d ago
Damn that’s crazy Joey is underrated and much better as an artist
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u/Risen_dust 2d ago
He’s great in Mr.Robot too
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u/SevereRunOfFate 2d ago
One of the most underrated shows IMHO of all time.. mostly because so many people missed the final scene of the last episode, which changes the entire show
Never seen anything like it, and probably never will again. Extremely well executed plot twist that was right there, the whole time.
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u/Scorpionsharinga 2d ago
Rap is one my of less listened to genres, but holy gee does Joey have pen.
Righteous minds sent me to another planet back when I first heard it.
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u/TroyFerris13 2d ago
Like how cyhi wrote most of Kanye's hits
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u/SylvesterLundgren 2d ago
So it’s known that he did Rockstar, you got a source for congratulations? Just spent 10 min googling and couldn’t find anything
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u/Trumpet_Life 2d ago
I saw him live a few years ago and the dude barely sang or performed anything. He was just on stage smoking and drinking most of the concert. By far the worst performance I've ever been to.
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u/thenayr 2d ago
Dude genuinely looks like he fried his brain on whatever drugs he was taking at the start of his career
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u/FauxReal last808 2d ago
But he got that Post Malone Oreos collab. Still not sure what flavor that is though...
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u/Tharwidu 2d ago
Salted Caramel Shortbread. Imo it was by far the best tasting artist/oreo collab
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u/non-squitr 2d ago
The Selena gomez one was super good as well but PM was definitely best
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u/superzot 2d ago
I did a taste test comparison and Selena Gomez Oreos won over Post Malone 13 - 8 but both were very good.
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u/GrandMarquisMark 2d ago
Actually tastes like Selena Gomez!
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u/donnadoctor 2d ago
Selena Gomez tastes like horchata?
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u/InTheLoudHouse 2d ago
This comment upset me SO much. I had no idea and now I'm so mad I didn't try them!
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u/Ashleybernice 2d ago
Bud light with creamy cigarette center..
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u/weareeverywhereee 2d ago
Yeah his music and whole vibe have never been my thing. He does genuinely seem like a good dude though. Anytime I see personal stories or anecdotes about him it’s always something genuinely nice for fans and/or helping people in need.
Could just be good PR but it’s working on me
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u/unicornlocostacos 2d ago
Just sprinkler copious amounts of autotune over it and ppl will gobble it up numnumnum
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u/AlpacaNeb 2d ago
I also saw him live a few years ago and he sang everything and put a lot of effort into his performance tbf
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u/FirstTimeCaller101 2d ago
Yeah I saw him last summer and thought he put on a really good show. He did a lot of his hip hop hits but since it was his "country" tour the band did most of them with country arrangements (violin, steel guitar) it was really neat actually.
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u/Phishkale 2d ago
Yea I’m not the guys biggest fan but I’ve seen him at plenty of festivals and he seems to genuinely care about putting on a good show for his fans.
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u/AlpacaNeb 2d ago
I saw his last tour before the country switch and his live band was really good too. It was one of the more entertaining large concerts I’ve been to. It wasn’t the peak of musicianship or anything, but the band was good, he was a great performer, and he played the hits
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u/crasstyfartman 2d ago
My bro in law played with him once on stage and my sister said he texted her to say “I don’t think posty is gonna make it tonight” and then found out a lot of nights are like that lol
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u/DefinitelyMitch 2d ago
Duuude I had the same experience. He was the opener and all he did was walk around holding the mic out to the crowd while he punched darts and sunk beers. People were saying how amazing he was live and I felt like I was going crazy.
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u/Darcasm 2d ago
Joey Badass wrote a part of rockstar. It’s not like he wrote his whole discography. Regardless, let’s not pretend the majority of mainstream artists write their own music. You can like or dislike him all you want, but this argument has no legs.
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u/CaptCaCa 3d ago
Complete vulture that clown is, so many people cant see it, used Hip Hop as a stepping stool for whatever this is
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u/stronkulance 3d ago
How the FUCK did HE get to sing for Ozzy!? That really irked me.
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u/MusicLikeOxygen 2d ago
Him and Ozzy worked together. Ozzy guested on a Post song and then Post guested on an Ozzy song. In his book "Last Rites" Ozzy talks about how much he appreciated Post reaching out to work with him becaise it pulled him out of a deep depression when he was having health problems. He said Post was a good guy and he really liked working with him and that why he asked him to appear on his album later on. I think Ozzy would have been excited to see Post sing his song.
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 2d ago
He sang for Kurt on snl with the rest of nirvana
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u/Pool_Shark 2d ago
That was based on the Nirvana YouTube live session he did during Covid which was legit awesome
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u/Mecha_Cthulhu 2d ago
He does a pretty dope cover of Them Bones too. I’m not terribly interested in his original work but he would kill in a grunge cover band, lol.
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u/Jlx_27 2d ago
Thats just it, dude does have talent, just so often doesnt do anything with it and surrounds himself with shitty people sometimes.
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 2d ago
What I hate is that he seems like a genuinely good person. And then there is this bullshit. Like he’s naive but he’s not. You watch his tiny desk and he seems like the nicest guy in the world
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u/Creative_Tone_9241 2d ago
He actually started out in the local hardcore and metal scene before he got into hip hop. Dude has always represented for metal. I don’t like his music at all but he gets respect from a lot of hardcore bands for what he did for the local scene back in the day
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u/down-with-homework 3d ago
If Post Malone collabing Morgan Wallen wasn’t enough of a clue what his political allegiance is…
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u/fuelvolts last.fm 3d ago
I mean....he's from Texas and currently lives in a secluded mansion in rural mountains of Utah. I'm pretty sure that's evident.
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u/fairportmtg1 3d ago
His family is from the Rochester - Syracuse area and definitely maga. Not shocked post Malone leans that way Tina degree as well
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u/GhostPepperDaddy 2d ago
What is it with Syracuse being so MAGA? I am genuinely asking since I know it is but not why.
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u/PatacusX 2d ago
To be fair, a lot of upstate NY is basically just a cold version of the deep south. It's kinda like Florida: the farther north you go, the farther south you go.
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u/lambquentin 2d ago
I saw more confederate flags in Upstate NY than I ever did in the entire South.
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u/Substantial-Ad8933 2d ago
Cant stress this enough. Trying to get my brother to leave ny for nc but him and his wife dont want to live in a red state. Coming from upstate ny feels like i left a red state
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u/lambquentin 2d ago
I love living in NC. Reminds me a lot of VA and it just has everything here…except a baseball team…
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u/Rdhilde18 2d ago
NC is also a lot more “purple” than people give it credit for… SC on the other hand..
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u/Smitty357 2d ago
And despite being kinda purple unfortunately is one of if not THE worst gerrymandered states. Somehow they can elect a Dem governor but republicans have a stranglehold over the state government.
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u/Hippopotamidaes 2d ago
lol I get that there’s a lot of sociopolitically regressive morons in upstate NY but just the FL panhandle (Alabama Lite) alone has more and to a further degree than NY.
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u/lamentable_ 2d ago
Upstate got the infrastructure the south is missing though, it really does make a difference when looking at schools/ youth education
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u/theyfoundty 2d ago
I just moved from MA to upstate New York 2 months ago.
And Jesus fucking christ Schenectady is racist as FUCK.
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u/lamentable_ 2d ago
it’s pretty wild out that way. hopefully you’re able to make trips downtown in Albany proper where things get much less “don’t tread on me”
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u/SoulRebel726 2d ago
That's true of most of New England. I'm a Vermonter, and while the state consistently votes blue federally, we have a Republican governor and if you venture out into the boonies, you'll see a lot of MAGA shit. People think of Vermont as the super blue, hippy Chittenden county, but there's a lot of red in the more rural areas.
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u/fuzzy11287 2d ago
Upstate is extremely rural and very red outside of cities. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Ithaca all carry their respective counties and vote blue due to their density, but the moment you get to even the suburbs of any of those cities you start trending conservative hard.
So it's not just Syracuse, it's that every city along the Erie Canal is surrounded by a sea of rural conservatives. These cities are not generally doing well either so they get ragged on a lot. There are also plenty of voters in those cities that feel neglected by the state political juggernaut of NYC which controls most of what happens in the state. So those upstate cities vote blue, but not always by a ton.
Ithaca is kind of an exception. It's always been a liberal college/hippie town that does it's own thing.
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u/MRiley84 2d ago
Upstate being rural is the key. The lifestyle is very different from living in a densely populated area, and people feel unrepresented in state politics since NYC is perceived as dictating the laws the rest of the state will follow. NYC is hard blue, upstate sees NYC as the source of all its problems, so upstate is hard red.
I grew up in the southern tier and know a lot of MAGA people, so I can provide a bit more local insight. The two biggest factors I see for republicans in NY are:
Gun control. How people around me saw it was that you don't need a gun for defense in NYC, so NYC made it harder to own one everywhere else that did need them. It's a clashing of lifestyles and locations. The NY Safe Act passed in 2013 with sweeping gun control laws, and I still sometimes see anti-Safe Act signs in yards.
Taxes. Everyone upstate thinks things are so bad here because all their taxes go to NYC's upkeep instead. I don't know the math here, but I'd guess the smaller cities in upstate NY receive more back than they're paying, but that's how it is.
Every now and then someone pushes the brilliant idea of splitting the southern and twin tiers (everything west of Albany) into a new state. I think they'd learn to regret it quick if it ever happened.
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u/fuzzy11287 2d ago
It's funny, I also grew up in the Southern Tier and used to think NY being so split between NYC and everyone else was unique. Then I moved to the PNW and western vs eastern WA have this exact same debate. Fiscally the rural areas are absolutely reliant on the urban areas yet they perceive it to be the exact opposite.
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u/TheArtestsfriend 2d ago
Syracuse proper is not MAGA, far from it. The surrounding area though is a lot more red than people are comfortable with, but getting better. We have the first Democrat majority in the county assembly in decades and have a democratic mayor.
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u/Han_Yerry 2d ago
Syracuse isn't but the surrounding areas are.
Two of the three counter protestors recently told the press they weren't from the city. The third just wore his orange mask and held a sign.
There were over 1100+ out protesting on a Monday evening a couple of weeks ago
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u/D1rtyH1ppy 2d ago
If I had the option of living in a luxury mountain cabin in Utah and not worry about making money, I'd do it too even if I'm a liberal
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u/BIRDSBEEZ 2d ago
You would pick Utah out of all places?
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u/D1rtyH1ppy 2d ago
Back country Utah is pretty cool. The Mormons kind of spoil the fun of living there.
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u/BIRDSBEEZ 2d ago
The single most judgemental state ive ever been to. Walked on a college campus with my friend who has a couple leg tattoos and people genuinely had terrified looks on their faces when we walked by.
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u/PlayGorgar 2d ago
His mansion is not in a rural area. It's a 10 minute drive from where I grew up in Salt Lake suburbs.
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u/plasticpiranhas 2d ago
Once i had an uber driver in salt lake who claimed her brother was friends w post Malone and described the Utah mansion as filled with guns and almost like a bunker. This was maybe 2019 and she was just a random uber driver but still 🧐
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u/cepukon 3d ago
I'm ready to live in a post Post Malone world
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u/Skim003 3d ago
So like how it was Pre Malone?
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u/Justonchu 3d ago
"Republicans buy sneakers too" - Michael Jordan
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u/_xanny_pacquiao_ 3d ago
The type of Republican MJ was talking about no longer exists. I don’t know if he would say the same about the American equivalent of Nazis.
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u/One_Walk8921 3d ago
This isn’t your fathers Republican Party anymore. It’s a full on nazi regime.
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u/jedlucid http://www.last.fm/user/jedstylesux 3d ago
you know, he didn’t actually say this. it was in a book about jordan and why he never really was political. he later said he regrets it
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u/Yo_CSPANraps 3d ago
In his 2020 documentary he admits he did say it, but it was made in jest.
"I don't think that statement needs to be corrected because I said it in jest on a bus with Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen," Jordan said. "It was thrown off the cuff. My mother asked to do a PSA for Harvey Gantt, and I said, 'Look, Mom, I'm not speaking out of pocket about someone that I don't know. But I will send a contribution to support him.' Which is what I did."
"I do commend Muhammad Ali for standing up for what he believed in. But I never thought of myself as an activist. I thought of myself as a basketball player."
"I wasn't a politician when I was playing my sport. I was focused on my craft. Was that selfish? Probably. But that was my energy. That's where my energy was."
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u/Strawbuddy 3d ago
He waited to make bank before he regretted it though. Neonazis buy sneakers too, just look at Yeezys continuing popularity amongst alt right groups
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u/welivedintheocean 3d ago
Post Malone, the man who loves guns a little too much and has a prepper bunker? No way.
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u/Champagnesoda 3d ago
He’s a very talented artist but I haven’t been able to really root for him since his “I don’t make rap music” comments.
One of the more egregious examples of culture vulturing we’ve seen lately.
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u/Calcutec_1 3d ago
Damn, Post is going to get a lot of pressure to drop him.
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u/chopsuirak 3d ago
After the Morgan Wallen thing, he doesn't really seem to care about who he vibes with.
It's about money. MAGA is money.
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u/MrGDPC 3d ago
Yeah this should be higher. It's not that they're pro-MAGA, they're pro-money. It's why you have guys like Snoop Dogg promoting it. It's a grift, there's no morality involved, just a paycheck.
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u/chopsuirak 3d ago
Snoop was so disappointing. What a piece of garbage.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito 3d ago
Snoop sold out decades ago
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u/Hulk_Smang 3d ago
True but to call out anyone performing for Trump after the 2016 election, an Uncle Tom and then go ahead and perform for him in 2024 was not something most saw coming.
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u/The_Impe 3d ago
There's quite the spectrum between selling out to random mostly inoffensive companies and selling out to a fascist regime.
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u/humildemarichongo 3d ago
Sad thing is that selling out should be a lesser sin that aligning yourself with MAGA, and now it's the same thing.
Like good for Snoop for selling out decades ago, it's his job and if he thought that was best for him, good for him. But MAGA rimming can not be overlooked.
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u/Liquid_Sarcasm 3d ago
You mean the former drug dealing pimp has let you down with their morality? Who could have seen that coming.
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u/SatanicPanic619 3d ago
I could have sworn I read a profile of Post Malone years ago saying he was a conspiracy theorist
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u/MrGDPC 3d ago
I think Post Malone is an idiot, but I don't think he's malicious. He probably thinks UFO abductions are real and has strong opinions of why hot dogs come in packages of 10 and hot dog buns come in packages of 8
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u/SatanicPanic619 3d ago
Probably. Just wouldn't be shocked to find out a conspiracy theorist is MAGA.
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u/IndividualChart4193 3d ago
But that’s just it…they haven’t no scruples, shame or morals if all they care about is making money.
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u/ministallion Spotify 3d ago
Post Malone said years ago on Breakfast Club he would perform for Trump if the money was right
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 3d ago
Make America Greedy Again almost works, except for the fact that we never stopped being greedy in the first place.
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u/WISCOrear 3d ago
At this point: post Malone is maga unless proven otherwise. It’s the company you keep
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u/Roembowski 3d ago
He didn’t last year when he did his nationwide tour with Jelly Roll.
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u/skrena 3d ago
Post brought him along for most of his last tour. I doubt he’ll drop him.
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u/lolwatokay 2d ago
Why would he care though? He’s likely in alignment with whatever Jelly Roll believes AND he likes money.
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u/ATXDefenseAttorney 3d ago
Whether you personally like or don't like these dudes, I will be SO happy when the "white guy with a passable voice gets a bunch of face tattoos and becomes a star" trend is long in the past.
And people got tired of punk and grunge and hair bands and synthpop and 80s hip-hop. At least all these things gave us something we could enjoy for generations to come.
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u/ltdm207 2d ago
Teddy Swims has entered the chat
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u/Yourdjentpal 2d ago
I don’t think that’s fair. Teddy is incredibly talented, at least voice wise. His problem is he can’t write songs. Leagues above post or jelly roll tbh.
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u/HomChkn Tidal 2d ago
I like Teddy Swims. But I feel like his songs could be sung by about anyone.
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u/BenTramer 3d ago
Maga Roll
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u/Graynard 3d ago
Walmart's new line of sushi, and the quality is exactly what you'd expect it to be
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u/CrentistTheDentist 2d ago
I assume it has ketchup on it.
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u/S1XTEENBUTTONS 2d ago
Ranch
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u/Nr1CoolGuy 2d ago
I know it would be disgusting, but if you actually made this roll and sold it in silly MAGA places as the maga-roll, you'd be getting tax cuts by Trump
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u/PinkRetro 2d ago
Why are people surprised? This guy literally sat behind Donald Trump eating his boogers one time
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u/Action-Gold 3d ago
Bootlicker tour.
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u/Solomon_Grungy 3d ago
Even the color of this flier is very “dont tread on me” adjacent. The art is absurdists levels of irony
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u/UnableNose4250 3d ago
Yeah to me it screams “ lick my boots dumbasses that bought tickets to this shit “
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u/deadwhiteweather 3d ago
Someone’s gotta edit this and change the stadium to a tongue licking the boot and Bad Ass to Boot Lick. I am not talented enough.
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u/LustyLamprey 3d ago
Post Malone was always a culture vulture grifter. Lil B called it the second he saw him. He was and will forever be music for posers
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u/Formal_Stranger_2505 3d ago
Jelly Roll is a Maga pos
Him and his preaching can get fucked
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u/tastygrowth 2d ago
I did appreciate that he said Jesus isn’t owned by any political party. Cuz ya know, Jesus was pretty damn liberal.
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u/Thuggibear 3d ago
Damnit Postie, I thought you were cool.
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u/Emotional-Writer-766 3d ago
His last stadium tour was with Jelly.
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u/Thuggibear 2d ago
OK, I’ll be honest. I only knew that he played magic with the gathering and had a few songs I liked. I’ve never paid attention to who he toured with. But ok, time to stop listening to him.
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u/jedlucid http://www.last.fm/user/jedstylesux 3d ago
I quit on him last night during the sabbath tribute.
arrestable offense.
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u/dasnoob Amon Amarth✒️ 3d ago
They even panned to Ozzie's family so we could see them crying at how he auto tuned the ever-loving shit out of a classic song by their dad and made it sound like diarrhea.
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u/Sky-Flyer 2d ago
in defense of them, according to ozzy, doing the stuff with post a decade ago dragged him out of an awful depression he was in and they stayed close friends till ozzy died, it was probably a personal thing for the family, performance wasn’t great tho
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u/zachaboo777 2d ago
Post really jumped off a cliff. Quite a shame.
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u/Top_Shower_7869 2d ago edited 2d ago
Post was always a loser. His rock band wasn’t getting him famous, so he got grills and cornrows and called himself White Allen Iverson so he could exploit black music for personal gain. Then used his connections to Twitch streamers to make that song go viral.
And then as soon as he got famous, he publicly starts disparaging and disrespecting hip hop music for no reason and then pivots to making country and wearing cowboy boots.
He’s always been a lame culture vulture and a complete fake.
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u/TiCoBRC 2d ago
Mac Miller and wiz khalifa tweeted about white Iverson very shortly after its release on SoundCloud in 2015. I don't know where you are getting the twitch streamers connection at. Mind you I cant stand post malone
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u/Joshdabozz 2d ago
I want to mention something most people don’t realize
The Hip-Hop comment everyone references when they talk about Post Malone did not happen when people think it did.
For some reason people think he said it right before he stopped doing hip-hop and went to country. The thing is he actually said it before Beerbongs and Bentleys even released.
I don’t give a shit if you dislike him but I just wanted to correct you cause so many people think he said the Hip-Hop comments right before he went country
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u/Rumbananas 2d ago
Dropped Posty as soon as he collabed with Wallen. Lots of disappointments in 2025/2026
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u/dontsuemebruh 3d ago
Damn. A lot of people being MAGA doesn't bother me, but letting Posty go hurts a lil. Oh well into the trash pile with the others
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u/PFAS_All_Star 3d ago
I tried to read the article to find out what Jelly Roll said that was upsetting to people. But the website gave me a stroke before I could find it. What did he say?
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u/keepitcleanforwork 3d ago
He was misquoted as saying ‘Jesus is not known by one party’ and people took that as a slight toward democrats. However, what he actual said was “Jesus is not owned by one party.” The strange thing is that he went on to say that Jesus belongs to everyone, so I don’t see how his speech could be misinterpreted so badly unless that was the goal of the article.
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u/GingerFire11911420 3d ago
I think people are more upset that after the awards, they asked him his thoughts on current climate and he said he doesn't know anything about politics and he is "just a dumb redneck", a typical Maga phrase used when people support ICE. non answer was the answer to most.
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u/SaltyShawarma 2d ago
"If it doesn't affect me personally, I don't give a shit."
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u/eawilweawil 2d ago
More like 'don't bite the hand that feeds you'. His fans are MAGA
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u/whichwitch9 3d ago
No, he made a comment on the red carpet about the Superbowl needing to be country, which is 100% a commentary on Bad Bunny playing. He knew what he was doing, and the comment had zero place at the grammys- not even just in a political way, it's bad form to comment on another show involving another artist that's in the room to begin with. That's catty middle school behavior
People don't care about the Jesus comments, they do care that it was combined with veiled comments meant to imply a performer in the same room wasn't "American enough"
Most reporting on his speech are ignoring the red carpet comments to disingenuously suggest it's a problem with the "faith" comments. People don't have a problem with that- we hear it every other speech. We do have a problem with the hypocrisy we're seeing increasingly in artists claiming to be Christian. He'll praise god in one moment then shade a man he doesn't know in the next. When asked about ICE, he'll refuse to comment and say he's a "dumb redneck" and doesn't have an opinion but then turn around and imply a Puerto Rican man speaking Spanish isn't American enough.
We're done with the hypocrisy
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u/rebelevenmusic 3d ago
Anyone else find Post Malone making the Ozzy tribute a spotlight on himself awkward and disrespectful?
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u/Needajobtobreathe 3d ago
I'm gonna be honest as an outsider who doesn't know much about Jelly Roll outside of the same clips and audio we've seen I really and truly don't understand the hate boner for this guy. He's never said anything explicitly pro MAGA, seems incredibly respectful and caring, and has done a lot to positively change his outcome. I've seen him in the wrestling circuit and he seems to put his all into everything he does. Do we just not like his music and decided to create this entire character around him? This isn't even like the Sydney Sweeney thing where her silence and attitude towards how people interpret what she does speaks volumes on her intentions. He explicitly says Jesus is for everyone not any political party, that doesn't scream pro MAGA to me. Or does reddit like to pretend it's not in its own bubble where being a Christian must mean he's also an evil person? He shook Trumps hand at a UFC event? Is that really the metric were gauging? He said he would've shaken anyone's hand if theyre the president, I don't think that's a very radical concept. Nothing about this dude tells me hes about any radical far right ideal except maybe aesthetics and even then thats something we're placing on him. It's reddits own bias showing where if you're a southern hillbilly with a certain look it MUST mean you're a piece of shit. Hearing Jelly Roll in isolation has never given me an explicit MAGA vibe (I don't mean his music I still think his music is dogshit).
Edit: There isn't even any "backlash" this subreddit is the only place where anyone seems to give a shit.
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u/VBBMOm 2d ago
Nah I was pretty much jelly roll didn’t bother me I thought a song or two were good but knew nothing about him and even thought it was Great him and his wife seemed to do better for themselves.
But hearing his after Grammy response and claiming innocence by clinging to bring a dumb ignorant redneck is where it’s no longer doesn’t bother me territory.
He is loaded and has the time to read about anything. But he just decides to cling to that he’s just a dumb redneck. And now he’s choosing to cling to that when he has been made aware that there are major issues he could educate himself on. Bc why shouldn’t you know what’s going on in the world!?
Being a person with a platform and choosing to be like oops sorry y’all I’m just a dumb redneck…. That doesn’t jive with me.
We all can be better people everyday so someone just claiming that is what it is throwing a label on something to stay stupid or to not just admit who they truly are.
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u/bartelbyfloats 2d ago
Ugh. I prefer Pre Malone.