Post Malone and Morgan Wallen have announced that their collaborative single ‘I Had Some Help’ will be released next week (May 10).
The two premiered the song during Wallen’s headline set at Stagecoach Festival last Sunday (April 28), when Malone joined him as a guest for the song’s live debut.
Malone had also previewed the song with a 17-second clip beforehand, and now, in a joint Instagram post, the duo have confirmed that the single will get an official release in the coming days.
Check out some fan-captured footage of the song’s debut performance at Stagecoach below:
Malone also played his own set at Stagecoach, made up entirely of fan-requested covers of country classics. He was joined by Dwight Yoakam and Brad Paisley during the set, and played songs by Geroge Strait, Tim McGraw and Vince Gill.
He has been teasing the move towards the country genre for a while, playing a cover of Hank Willliams’ ‘Honky Tonk Blues’ during a surprise show in Nashville earlier this month.
Back in 2022, Malone told Howard Stern that he had been considering the shift in style. “To be honest, there’s nothing stopping me from taking a camera or setting up in my studio in Utah and just recording a country album and putting it on fucking YouTube,” he said.
In 2021, he also performed two country covers of songs by Brad Paisley and Sturgill Simpson for the We’re Texas relief fundraiser livestream.
The singer is having a big year, after being the featured artist on ‘Fortnight’, the lead single from Taylor Swift’s all-conquering ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, as well as collaborating with Beyoncé on the track ‘Levii’s Jeans’, from her album ‘Cowboy Carter’.
Swift recently shared a series of polaroids from the making of her album, including with Malone, to celebrate the record shifting over 2.6million units in the US.
Wallen, meanwhile, has apologised for throwing a chair off the sixth storey of a rooftop bar in Nashville.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” he said in a social media post on April 19. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behaviour, and I accept responsibility.”
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