Name: Post Malone's Advice For Young Musicians Starting Out
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Post Malone's Advice For Young Musicians Starting Out' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Post Malone's Advice For Young Musicians Starting Out' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-11. Transcript available.

A lot of it, like growing up was in my early teens and everything was Thug and
like Rocky and George Strait, Hank Senior, Alan, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax,
just everything.
Oh yeah, you're a kid.
And even a little dubstep.
Yeah.
I don't listen to dubstep now, but I did like a little Flux Pavilion, just a
pepper.
Wow, bro.
But dude, there's so much fucking cool shit going on at any, and that's the
problem too.
Like I remember like SoundCloud just first started and I was maybe one of the
first artists to really like blow up strictly on SoundCloud.
Really?
I didn't even know that.
SoundCloud, I think it was like 2013, SoundCloud was going and I think 20, I
can't, dude, I can't remember anything.
I have such a dory brain, but yeah.
And it's so hard now, I feel like for new artists to, because of the volume of
music that's getting put out, which is a fucking amazing thing.
Oh, 2007, I was way off.
But that's when it started.
It was really popping.
Right.
Yeah, really popping.
Things that start, that means they open their doors.
Yes, sir.
Probably took five years to get going.
Yeah, type in when did SoundCloud really start popping.
2017.
Like it's 2017, look at that.
Chance the Rapper, Post Malone, Odd Future.
Oh, you're on that list.
Yeah, see, I'm on the list out of three.
There you go.
Isn't that cool?
Yeah, it's super cool, man.
But yeah, it's hard now, like to get discovered, especially.
Well, it might be, it's either easier or real hard, because you can do
something that really just tricks the algorithm and saying like people get like
viral, you know, super viral moments.
But songs don't have to be viral to be awesome.
And we miss out, I feel like, on so many like artists that never, you know, so
many talented people that never get the algorithm going for them, but they're
fucking killer.
And that's like the hard part is the volume of stuff.
And I, like, I'm a big advocate, like the first recording software I got, I
think making music should be as cheap as it possibly can.
And you can get your ideas out.
Like I use a free recording software.
I had a $200 guitar.
I had a $100 mic.
And I would sit in my room and fucking make these songs.
I love that concept.
But it's hard now because it's, it, like I said, it's so fast.
And songs are viral for a couple days.
And then like, you, you don't hear much after that.
You know what I mean?
And that's like, or a train comes through and takes it.
But that's what people, people are like, let's make something that goes viral.
I just like, I want people to fucking express themselves the way that it is.
And if you work super fucking hard and you go like, I'm the luckiest dude in
the world.
I went viral like that.
White Iverson went viral.
And that was because of Fat Man Key.
And he's fucking amazing.
Amazing.
But you also feel like you were sharing yourself honestly.
Yes, sir.
Absolutely.
And that's like, and I think there's so many artists out there that I want to
do something
in the future where like Audacity, that free recording program.
Oh, yeah.
It's the most amazing thing of all.
It's free.
It's free.
That's the only editor I know how to use, dude.
Amazing, dude.
If our shit's bonk in the middle of that, I'll be up on Audacity.
It's amazing.
And it's free.
And it has been free.
Thank you, Audacity.
I didn't even.
Dude, fuck yeah.
Thank you, Audacity.
Isn't that fucking sick?
It really was cool.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
I never even thought to thank them.
Because yeah, I'd be up in the middle of the night, a podcast episode,
something be wrong.
Yeah.
Like, we got to fix it.
Boom, I'll use Audacity, you know?
Yeah, I think, you know, I think express trying to be real to yourself.
What makes you fucking feel?
What makes you hurt?
Or what makes you want?
What makes you angry?
Or what makes you, you know, what makes you uncertain?
You know, like, if you can find a feeling and attach your art to it, I think
that that,
I just, I don't believe that we can't see authenticity.
Yes, sir.
When we see it.
Yes, sir.
I don't believe that.
I know there's hooks and you can get hooked on the hooks, you know?
But I feel like authenticity, you can never lose by just trying, you know?
You're not making it just to make it.
You're making it because you love it.
Right.
Well, Bernie, that's one thing Bernie Sanders said.
I said, well, what would you say to a young politician who wants to be, you
know,
someone young who wants to affect culture the same way you did in the 70s when
you decided
to become a politician?
He said.
Me?
No, not you.
Oh, that explains the Elvis question.
You're talking about.
You're talking about Ghost Malone, dude.
But no, no, no.
He said, I said, Bernie, if you had to say something to a young person who was
the same as
you in 1970 or 1968, who wanted to affect change, right?
He really wanted to have a, you know, who believed that I'm a human that can
have an
effect on the world, right?
He said, do it because of what your purpose is, not because you want to get
elected.
Like, you don't have to get elected anymore to serve your purpose.
Yes, sir.
You can serve your purpose because of social media and because of the internet
these days
just as much as if you got elected.
If you were elected.
Right.
Yes, sir.
And that was pretty interesting to me.
It was like, yeah, find the new road, you know?
Like, just like, even with SoundCloud, it's like, find, like, yeah, if you
couldn't get
a deal, if there wasn't a deal, somebody handing you a deal, that's like, find
the new road.
Find the SoundCloud, go independent.
And it's such a cool thing to see, like, independent artists and fucking them
doing all the shit
by themselves.
Like, printing the records, putting it up on DSPs, you know, all this stuff.
It's so cool.
That's why, like, I think I was saying, too, I want to give, like, down the
road whenever,
you know, there's more time and I'm not so selfish and self-focused.
Well, and I got my family, too, so I'm working hard for that.
No, but it's okay.
I feel you, man.
It's like, yeah, you get going on your own dream and your own dream takes off.
And then it's like, how quick do you feel like I need to start to turn around
and figure
out help?
And when, yeah, and when can you help others?
And that's, like, the most important thing for me is either you do it with
music,
help people, you know, through hard times or help them get through a tough week
or
whatever, but I want to make it bigger and help, you know, artists really get a
fucking
spot and showcase talent because there's so much that doesn't get, you know,
like, it's
cool.
What were some of the music you grew up listening to in Texas, man?
Fuck.
I remember my dad had this, the big ass iPod that was like 100, or 360 gigs.
You remember the big blocks?
And I would steal it.
I was like, hey, can I use your iPod tonight?
And it was everything.
It was like Megadeth, fucking, uh, the blueprint, fucking, um, uh, the Garth
Brooks, my mom
down in a hole, down in a hole, down in a hole, down in a hole, down in a hole,
down in a hole.
Yeah, you're fucking Allison, fucking.
Laney Staley is the killer.
Is that Allison Chains?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a killer, dude.
Oh, I'd like to fly.
What is that one?
I think it's the same song, but my wings have been so denied.
I like that.
Okay, sorry.
I think that could be also from the Muppets.
Okay, my bad.
But yeah, it's almost unrecognizable.