Post Malone

Unlike his contemporaries, Post Malone - whose real name is Austin Post - doesn’t have a particularly heartfelt or complex backstory to his public persona.

The rapper said: “I was, like, 14 and I had started, like, getting into producing and rapping and singing over my own stuff. And then I needed a name for my mixtape. So I ran [Austin Post] through a random rap name generator and I got Post Malone.”