The US rapper Post Malone helped a Scottish musician fund the downpayment for his first home, according to reports.
The Sunflower crooner’s viral, widely reported act of kindness unfolded at a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, named Wunderbar last week. Post Malone walked into the bar while Gregor Hunter Coleman, an area musician, was playing, BBC Scotland reported.
Coleman said that someone told him Post Malone – whose given name is Austin Richard Post – was coming into the bar. “I think I was playing Taylor Swift and Post Malone comes in and there was a mirror, and I could see him singing and dancing along and I was like, ‘This is mad,’” Coleman told STV News.
“The whole time I was singing, I was messing up lots and stuff and I’m like, ‘Post Malone’s here.’
“After the set, one of the security guys called me over and said, ‘Listen he wants to speak to you, wants to say well done’, kind of thing.” The 27-year-old hip-hop artist who spent much of his youth in Texas emphatically enjoyed Coleman’s show, saying that the Scottish musician “smashed it”, according to People.
“He said, ‘do you want a drink?’ I was like, ‘listen, I’m saving for a house so I’m not drinking just now.’ Which was daft, my mates were, like, ‘why did you turn down a drink from Post Malone?’” Coleman told BBC Scotland.
Rather than buying Coleman a pint, Post Malone asked if he would play at his post-show party, People said.
“He started saying, ‘how much will you charge?’ I said nothing, it’s Post Malone, this is the chance of a lifetime,” Coleman reportedly said. And while he didn’t want money for performing, Malone extended an offer to cover some of the deposit on the home Coleman wanted to buy.
“I’d said ‘I’m waiting until I get a house and then I’ll stock the fridge with beer,’” Coleman recalled to STV News of his exchange with Post Malone. “He said ‘that’s cool, I respect that’ and offered to help me out with my deposit so I had more time to focus on music, which I thought was wild. I’d always heard stories that he was a really nice guy.”
Coleman also commented on the serendipitous meeting on an Instagram post, in which he included a photo of him and Post Malone together.
“Never thought whilst heading out the door with my guitar on Friday night for my gig at @wunderbarglasgow that I’d meet @postmalone and have such a life changing experience,” he wrote. “The hours spent with this gent chatting and jamming was life changing in itself, not to mention what followed.”
He also said: “This could be my time to hit the ground running.”
