Post Malone ‘F-1 Trillion’ – Album Review

Post Malone’s new album and first country album, F-1 Trillion is out now, August 16th on all streaming platforms. Take a listen and read our full review below.

13 million albums and 95 million digital singles sold in the US, mixed in with 10 Billboard Music Awards and 10 Grammy-nominations, makes Post Malone one of the most successful artists of the 2010s/2020s. The rapper garnered fame after his single “White Iverson” went viral on SoundCloud in 2015, and five studio albums later, his Texas roots finally broke through and convinced him to release his debut country project, F-1 Trillion.

When you’re as popular as Post Malone, it’s very easy to find other artists to collaborate with. He’s already been on songs with the biggest names in pop/hip-hop including 21 Savage, Future, Halsey, Swae Lee, Doja Cat, Noah Kahan, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. When Nashville’s stars caught wind of this project, they were eager to contribute. By now, you should know of his massive, number one single “I Had Some Help” with Morgan Wallen, and potentially his other pre-releases with Blake Shelton and Luke Combs. Across these 18 tracks, there are 15 total features, including ones with HARDY, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, and more.

Among the new ones, “Wrong Ones” with Tim McGraw and “Losers” with Jelly Roll are standouts. The former has an outlaw country sound, as Post expresses his frustration with his recent love interests. Jelly Roll made the perfect pairing on the latter, a pop-inspired sing-along about being the outcast in a crowd. Jelly Roll, himself, was a rapper who crossed the border into country music. 

“Come kick it with the losers // The outcasts and the sinners // The ain’t-never-been-no-winners // Let’s hear it for the losers // Ain’t got nowhere to fit in // There’s a place you can always get in”

Post Malone showcases his ability to do traditional country in “Never Love Again,” featuring Sierra Ferrell. Full of steel and fiddle, the singer asks this woman for forgiveness as he’s walking away, knowing he will never love her again. “Hide My Gun” with HARDY is another slow, but fun, romantic tune where the protagonist admits he’d kill a man for this woman, but only if she’d cover for him and conceal the evidence. 

“Would you hide my gun? Would you tell no one? // Would you pack your never-comin’-back-again bag? // If the three-times-four’s bangin’ at our door, would you stall and let me slip out the back?”

Of the solo tracks, “What Don’t Belong To Me” is a brilliantly written song about how he doesn’t have enough heart left for his current love interest—he used it all on whiskey, one-night stands, and rockstar living. The album closer, “Yours,” was written for Post’s two-year-old daughter at her future wedding. In this tear-jerker, the singer proclaims that no matter who she ends up marrying, she will always be his girl.

Post Malone fan or not, you must admit that he excelled at his first attempt at country music and surpassed all expectations. He showed he can do it all, covering all styles of the genre wonderfully. While we don’t know what’s next for Post, after listening to F-1 Trillion, we would be honored to have him stay in industry for a long time. 

F-1 Trillion Track List:

1. Wrong Ones ft. Tim McGraw
2. Finer Things ft. Hank Williams Jr.
3. I Had Some Help ft. Morgan Wallen
4. Pour Me A Drink ft. Blake Shelton
5. Have The Head ft. Dolly Parton
6. What Don’t Belong To Me
7. Goes Without Saying ft. Brad Paisley
8. Guy For That ft. Luke Combs
9. Nosedive ft. Lainey Wilson
10. Losers ft. Jelly Roll
11. Devil I’ve Been ft. Ernest
12. Never Love You Again ft. Sierra Ferrell
13. Missin’ You Like This ft. Luke Combs
14. California Sober ft. Chris Stapleton
15. Hide My Gun ft. HARDY
16. Right About You
17. M-E-X-I-C-O ft. Billy Strings
18. Yours