For Post Malone, the future is now. The Syracuse-born rapper-singer’s album Stoney moved more than 1.5 million album-equivalent units in 2017, best among the recent releases of any hip-hop act besides Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

Malone is also following in the pair’s footsteps when it comes to making Forbes lists: he’s one of only ten acts in the Hip-Hop's Future Moguls Class of 2018 (formerly known as Hip-Hop Cash Princes). Malone is responsible for two of the five most-consumed hip-hop songs of the year—“Congratulations” and “Rockstar,' the latter featuring listmate 21 Savage—moving more than 3.5 million units of each and generating hundreds of millions of streaming spins.

source: forbes.com