Post Malone Talks ‘Austin,’ Parenthood and Mushrooms – Billboard

Too a lot, too typically, is just too dangerous. Just ask Post Malone, who reckons his psychological acuity isn’t what it as soon as was, due to overdoing it with hallucinogens.

The singer and rapper nonetheless digs mushroom, of the magical selection, however not with the identical urge for food as he as soon as had.

“Yeah, I’ll take shrooms. I like shrooms,” he admits in a current interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music. “Not as much as I used to. It really affected my short-term memory.”

For his sitdown with the New Zealand-born broadcaster, Malone displays on an earlier “stint of habitual overuse, like daily” which can have contributed to the fog. “Now I take a little bar of (mushroom) chocolate with my buddies, a little square of chocolate and just laugh and laugh and laugh.”

Nothing is off-limits, as Malone displays on youthful indiscretions, together with dangerous experiences with prescribed drugs medicine. But by no means the laborious stuff. “I shouldn’t have to really justify anything to anyone, but I appreciate the concerns that people (have about his health),” he provides, “but then the rumor starts that I’m doing hard drugs, which I’ve never done in my entire life.”

Malone additionally talks about his newfound priorities as a mum or dad, and the early mornings that include it. “The schedule just keeps getting fuller, and now that I’m a dad, the schedule only got more full,” says the singer and rapper, a recognized late-riser.

That schedule continues to will get “fuller and fuller” with the discharge of recent music. That’s the case with Posty’s fifth and newest studio album Austin, which dropped final Friday, and will probably be supported with one other main world tour. Austin is the followup to 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and grew to become Malone’s fourth studio album to chart throughout the high 5. It’s at the moment at No. 3 on the midweek U.Ok. chart. “I’m definitely more tired. I was always tired before (children), but now I’m more tired.”

Watch the interview under.