He’s undoubtedly Higher Now.
Submit Malone candidly opened up about among the lowest factors in his life throughout his painful battle with alcoholism after discovering international fame.
And if it hadn’t been for his fiancée, the rapper doesn’t suppose he’d be the person he’s right this moment.
Throughout a brand new interview on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, the rapper — whose actual identify is Austin Submit — opened up about his previous struggles with booze.
“I’m accountable now,” the “Rockstar” hitmaker revealed. “It was to a extremely tough level, and I couldn’t rise up off the ground for weeks.”
In an epic acoustic efficiency, Malone unleashed a powerful cover of Pearl Jam’s 1994 hit, “Higher Man,” which reminds him of his brother Jordan, who beforehand served as a Marine stationed in Hawaii.
“We went to go see him. I used to be 12, 13, perhaps,” Malone stated about his brother. “And he performed this track, and we have been driving round. This was on an island you can drive round in a few hours. And he performed it, and I assume I’ve simply been occupied with that rather a lot currently.”
“And he launched me to Pearl Jam in a giant f–ing method,” he added.
Opening up extra about his battle with the booze, Malone stated his alternative of drink impacted him in additional methods than one, revealing he usually drank “screwdrivers” — a drink made up of orange juice and vodka.
“It was vodka, and it was bodying fifths and making an attempt to hold in there and speaking to individuals who weren’t f—ing there,” he defined.
“I simply have tremendous stunning individuals round me, and I met a extremely stunning individual that made me really feel like a human being once more,” he stated of his future spouse, who has not been publicly revealed.
“It’s the steering out of the darkish into the sunshine… She saved my f—ing life — it’s fairly epic.”
The rapper additionally credited pop star Justin Bieber for being a optimistic affect and serving to him put an finish to extreme ingesting.
“There was a time to the place I had a lot steering and Justin [Bieber] was guiding me … [but] on the finish of the day I’ve to do what I wish to do, and that’s what I’m going to do,” he informed Stern
“Folks can have a look at you from the skin and see that one thing’s mistaken, and you’ll be trapped in your individual f—ing world,” Malone defined. “I must do rather a lot much less speaking and much more listening …. I’m 26 and I’m studying each f—ing day.”
The “Circles” hitmaker stated his previous struggles with alcohol have been a symptom of low shallowness, revealing at a sure level in his life he was “not pleased with who I used to be.”
“Now I simply wish to be higher each f—ing day. All we will do is simply don’t be a d—head, that’s the golden rule,” he admitted.
