Post Malone Says He “Badly Wanted To Be Like” Mac Miller, Travis Scott, & A$AP Rocky

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Post Malone recently sat down for the cover story of the spring/summer issue of GQ Style. During the interview, Post explained how he modeled himself after rappers like Mac Miller, Travis Scott, and A$AP Rocky before finding the genre-bending style he’s now known for. “I so badly wanted to be like Mac [Miller] and Travis [Scott] and [A$AP] Rocky,” he said. “Finding my own identity in the whole thing was—I don’t want to say difficult, but it was a process for me.” As one of Post’s earliest supporters, Mac Miller inspired his genre-bending style.

GQ reports Post was particularly impressed by Mac’s Sufjan Stevens flip on the Pittsburgh rapper’s hit, “Donald Trump.” “I thought that was the coolest fuckin' thing,” Post told author Kelefa Sanneh,