Post Malone To Drop New Album in May

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If Post Malone planned on dropping an album announced, he could forget about it. On Monday, Post Malone’s co-manager made a motivational video playing tennis. Under the video, he confirmed that Beerbongs & Bentleys rapper would be dropping a new album next month.

London’s caption said, “Results or excuses, choose your side! Post Malone new album coming next month! What you want in life? Results or excuses?”

 Billboard reported earlier this year that the album would be named twelve carat toothache and will be roughly around 45 minutes long.

Although we know that an album will arrive next month, the actual release date is still a mystery. There are only a few weeks until May, and the count down for Twelve carat toothache will begin.

Until then, fans can enjoy the is led by the single “One Right Now,” which arrived last November and features an assist from Republic labelmate The Weeknd.

This album will follow Post’s 2019 Hollywood’s Bleeding, one of Malone’s two Billboard 200 No. 1 albums. The hip-hop star also has four Hot 100 No. 1 hits, three of which placed on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs ranking: “Circles,” “Sunflower,” and “Rockstar” (featuring 21 Savage).

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Post Malone’s New Album ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’ Is Coming Next Month, His Manager Claims

New Post Malone music may be coming sooner than we think. According to his manager, Posty’s long-awaited fourth studio album Twelve Carat Toothache is set for release next month.

Malone’s longtime manager Dre London shared the news in a recent Instagram post. In a video, London is seen playing tennis, saying, “We out here on a Monday. Monday f*cking motivation. We making excuses, or we getting results. It’s either results or f*cking excuses.”

Though Malone doesn’t appear in the video, nor does the video seem to have much to do with Malone or the album, the video is captioned, “Results Or Excuses Choose Your Side! @postmalone album coming next month! What u want in life results or excuses!! #MondayMotivation.”

Though Malone has not confirmed the album’s release date, he is set to play a slew of festivals this summer, including Hangout Festival and Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash Festival, which has fans speculating that he may release new music beforehand.

This isn’t the first time London has implied that Post Malone is ready to release new music, Back in January, London took to Instagram to express frustration toward Republic Records for allegedly delaying Twelve Carat Toothache‘s release.

“Our sync & energy always on a Insane level!!,” London said. “Album has been done!! We Ready!! But seems @republicrecords @universalmusicgroup isn’t [shrugging emoji] Posty fans no more need to press me anymore we did our part!! Now it’s time for the label to get the business right before we drop BIG Album! Hit them up! We been ready like u are! #DreVision #2022 It’s Time!!!”

Also next month, Malone is set to appear in court alongside producer Frank Dukes, both of whom are being sued by Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who claims to have contributed a guitar tune to the song’s final composition.

Post Malone’s Request To Dismiss His ‘Circles’ Songwriting Lawsuit Was Denied By A Judge

A lawsuit disputing the authorship of Post Malone’s 2019 monster hit “Circles” will go to trial next month after Post’s motion to dismiss the case was rejected by a federal judge, according to Rolling Stone. Post’s request to dismiss the case was based on his lawyer’s argument that “you don’t become a joint author unless you control the supervision.” Unfortunately for the Texas-bred star, District Judge Otis D. Wright, II disagreed, saying that this argument “doesn’t work for me.”

Post Malone is being sued along with song producer Frank Dukes by Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who says that contributed a guitar tune to the song’s final composition. However, Malone and Dukes argue that Armes only made “suggestions” in the studio, that the tune he played was only a “commonplace guitar chord progression,” and that the song was ultimately completed without his input. However, Judge Wright had a few questions about the argument that only contributors with “veto power” should receive a songwriting credit.

“I don’t understand that concept,” Rolling Stone quotes Wright. “Did Dukes control anything other than the manipulation and operation of the laptop?… So, he then had the ability to simply say that none of this is going to be recorded?” When Malone’s lawyer provided that Dukes’ power was contingent on Post’s consent, the judge pointed out, “Well, then he’s not in control. If you’re in control, you have veto power.” Rather than make a summary judgment, Wright determined that the case should proceed to a jury trial next month.

“Circles” is one of the biggest Billboard hits of all time; in 2020, it broke the record for the most weeks spent in the top 10 of the Hot 100 chart.

Post Malone, Playboi Carti, And Gunna With Young Thug Are Headlining Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash Fest

When music festivals started making their slow return last year, Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash welcomed 90,000 people to Chicago’s Douglass Park in August. The fest put on by hip-hop tastemakers Lyrical Lemonade and production company SPKRBX has grown into the biggest hip-hop festival in the Midwest. Now moving back to its usual mid-June weekend dates (17th – 19th), the 2022 edition’s lineup has some serious heavy-hitters at the top in Post Malone, Playboi Carti, and the first every collaborative performance from Gunna and Young Thug.

“We’ve leveled up the entire experience,” said Festival Director Berto Solorio in a statement. “We can’t wait to show our fans what we have in store this summer including bigger music acts performing on bigger stages, plus more food trucks, improved amenities, and more art installations than ever before.”

They’ve certainly delivered on today’s complete lineup drop, which is also set to feature performances from Wiz Khalifa, Polo G, Trippie Redd, 2 Chainz, Ski Mask Tha Slump God, Yeat, G Herbo, Rico Nasty, Key Glock, Lil Tecca, Key Glock, and a lot more in a thorough three-day slate. If there’s one knock, it’s the complete absence of gender parity among these talented names. But so it goes with most hip-hop festivals. Regardless, check out the lineup poster below.

Summer Smash tickets go on sale on Friday 04/08 at 10 am CST at TheSummerSmash.com.

Summer Smash lineup
Summer Smash

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Post Malone Asks A Federal Court To Dismiss The Lawsuit Against Him Over ‘Circles’ Songwriting Credit

Post Malone wants a lawsuit against him over a songwriting credit on his hit song “Circles” dismissed, according to Rolling Stone. Post is being sued by Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who demands a share of the authorship on the song, saying he played a guitar tune that was eventually worked into the final composition. Armes says that Post’s management offered a five percent share of the publishing royalties but withdrew the offer when he tried to negotiate for a larger cut.

However, Post has countered with a new filing saying that Armes did not contribute anything significant or original to the recording or the composition of the song in the one recording session he was present for in August 2018. According to Post’s lawyers, Armes only played an “admittedly extremely commonplace guitar chord progression,” while also possibly singing a “fragment of guitar melody” that went unrecorded.

The documents filed in federal court split absolutely no hairs about it, reading, “Armes does not have a shred of affirmative evidence with which to meet his burden of proof that his alleged contribution to the guitar melody is original. Armes admitted that his contributions did not even rise to the level of originality, which is also required in addition to the fixation requirement. He either conceded that his ideas were commonplace musical devices or failed to meet his burden to demonstrate any originality otherwise. Armes thus cannot even establish the threshold requirement that he made a copyrightable contribution.”

Post and his co-producer/co-defendant Frank Dukes have requested that the case be summarily dismissed in an April 4 hearing. Meanwhile, Post’s manager has suggested that the singer’s follow-up album is being held back by his label.

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Post Malone Worried He’d ‘Run Out Of Ideas’ For Music Before Finishing His LP, ‘Twelve Carat Toothache’

There comes a time in every artist’s life where they feel creatively burnt out. After his wildly successful 2019 album Hollywood’s Bleeding and a string of successful performances, Post Malone was feeling his creative juices depleting — especially when the pandemic hit. In fact, he thought he had completely lost his inspiration for making music until his upcoming LP Twelve Carat Toothache changed his mind.

Malone recently sat down with Billboard for a lengthy cover interview unveiling details about his upcoming album, which his manager recently noted had been delayed. During their conversation, the musician revealed he thought he lost his inspiration to write new music before launching into his new era.

Reflecting on his success, Malone said he had felt anxious about starting a new era of music. “You think about everything at the same time, and it’s f*cking overload,” he said. “There’s a lot riding on the music. There’s a lot riding on just being able to keep making songs. And that’s hard to do because you’re like, ‘F*ck — I already talked about everything.’ And you kind of run out of ideas, and that’s scary sh*t.”

He continued that he used to love playing guitar and creating beats, but he lost that inspirational spark before his collaborator Louis Bell visited his home studio: “I used to love playing the guitar — I hardly play the guitar anymore. I used to love making beats. There was a switch that flipped, and it felt like I was making Stoney. I lost that, and the hardest part is getting it back. It ebbs and flows. It’s figuring out: ‘Just because I’m not inspired to do it at the moment doesn’t mean I’m giving up.”

The Billboard feature mentions Twelve Carat Toothache is relatively brief compared to his previous releases, clocking in around 45 minutes. His aim is to avoid “filler” songs and give an honest portrayal of the “the ups and downs and the disarray and the bipolar aspect of being an artist in the mainstream.”

Check out Malone’s full interview with Billboard here.