{"id":19086,"date":"2025-09-04T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19086"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:36:40","slug":"country-artist-clever-on-that-time-he-signed-with-post-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19086","title":{"rendered":"Country Artist Clever on That Time He Signed with Post Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said, &#8216;Your songs are the soundtrack to our tour,'&#8221; recalls the Alabama artist, who is now following in Post&#8217;s footsteps by diving headlong into country<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlabama hip-hop artist Clever got his big break when the late rapper Juice WRLD shared one of his songs on his Instagram page, instantly gaining him thousands of followers overnight. That helped also put him on the radar of Post Malone, who discovered Clever\u2019s song \u201cStick by My Side\u201d with NLE Choppa, and surprise FaceTimed Clever to tell him how much he liked it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI freaked out for a second,\u201d Clever, who is now launching a country music career, tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> during an appearance on the <em>Nashville Now<\/em> podcast. \u201cHe said, \u2018We need to hang out. Your songs are the soundtrack to our tour.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tClever eventually met up with Post on the road and the two bonded. \u201cWe started playing beer pong and doing the Post Malone tour thing,\u201d he recalls. \u201cHe said, \u2018What\u2019s your situation? I want to get you over here with us,\u2019 and I ended up signing with Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tUnfortunately, the Covid pandemic derailed Clever\u2019s plans with Post\u2019s label \u2014 Posty Co. \u2014 but he remains undeterred as he follows in the footsteps of other rappers turned country singers, including Jelly Roll and Post himself.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cJelly Roll kind of started a wave. You see Beyonc\u00e9 coming through doing her thing. I think it\u2019s great for the genre. But\u2026I\u2019m trying to do my thing to stand out,\u201d Clever told <em>Nashville Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDownload and subscribe to\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s weekly country-music podcast,\u00a0<em>Nashville Now<\/em>, hosted by senior music editor Joseph Hudak, on\u00a0Apple Podcasts\u00a0or\u00a0Spotify\u00a0(or wherever you get your podcasts). New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Charley Crockett, Gavin Adcock, Margo Price, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, and Ashley Monroe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He said, &#8216;Your songs are the soundtrack to our tour,&#8217;&#8221; recalls the Alabama artist, who is now following in Post&#8217;s footsteps by diving headlong into country Alabama hip-hop artist Clever got his big break when the late rapper Juice WRLD shared one of his songs on his Instagram page, instantly gaining him thousands of followers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4063,11299,1973,11691,1105,3383,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-19086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-artist","9":"tag-clever","10":"tag-country","11":"tag-malone","12":"tag-post","13":"tag-signed","14":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}