Post Malone Announces He Is Legally Changing His Name To Pre Malone To Reflect His New Season Of Personal Growth

NASHVILLE—Post Malone, America’s sweetest exhausted rich guy, has reportedly announced he is legally changing his name to Pre Malone in honor of “the fragile moment before delivery, disappointment, maturity, and a brand manager saying the country era is testing well.”

The announcement came in a short video filmed on a porch, where Malone thanked fans for supporting him “before, during, and after everything,” then stared into the distance like he had just heard a fiddle explain a divorce.

“Post was who I became,” Malone said. “Pre is who I was before the mail went out.”

Republic Records described the move as a “natural evolution of the artist’s relationship to time, identity, genre, and merch inventory.” According to a fan-club email, older songs will remain under Post Malone for archival purposes, while future releases will appear under Pre Malone unless they were recorded during “a period of obvious after-ness.”

That means White Iverson, Circles, and Sunflower remain Post. New songs about boots, fences, parking-lot forgiveness, and the kind of bar where a man can apologize to a jukebox will be Pre. I Had Some Help is being reviewed by a tense committee because nobody can agree where help falls on the delivery timeline.

The first wave of Pre Malone merchandise includes a cream hoodie reading STILL IN TRANSIT, a trucker hat embroidered NOT YET DELIVERED, and a $48 enamel pin shaped like a mailbox having a difficult morning. Fans who already bought Post Malone shirts will not receive refunds, though they may bring them to participating boot stores and have “Post” crossed out by a sad man with a leather awl.

“It’s not a rebrand,” said marketing executive Lyle Carden. “It’s a pre-brand. That’s different, more expensive, and easier to put on beige fabric.”

Industry reaction has been broadly positive. Executives say the Pre era gives Malone room to release another album, a documentary, a limited whiskey, and several interviews where he says “man” while touching his chest like he is trying to restart a truck.

Brands are already circling. A snack company has reportedly pitched an empty bag called Coming Soon. A bootmaker wants to sell one boot now and the second boot later. A streaming service has proposed a docuseries titled Before The Face Tattoos Fully Knew What They Were Doing.

Fans have responded with the usual mixture of devotion, grief, and online filing. The official Discord now contains separate channels for Post Remembrance, Pre Celebration, and Austin Neutral, where listeners can discuss the artist without committing to a chronological position.

“Post Malone saved my life,” one fan wrote. “Pre Malone has not yet earned that right, but I am open to being charged twice for hope.”

Malone’s team has not confirmed whether the name change will be permanent, temporary, or available as a deluxe edition. For now, the artist seems committed to the bit, telling fans the next chapter will be “less afterparty, more driveway before the storm hits.”

By press time, a trademark application had reportedly appeared for Mid Malone, just in case personal growth becomes a trilogy.