The man can do it all… it’s beyond impressive. Last night, Post Malone took the stage during the Grammy Awards during the “In Memoriam” segment to pay tribute to the late, great Ozzy Osbourne, the rock icon who very sadly passed away on July 22nd, 2025 at 76-years old following a battle with Parkinson’s Disease.
Following Reba, Lukas Nelson and Brandy Clark delivering a beautiful reimagined rendition of her song “Trailblazer,” Post took the stage to perform an Ozzy classics in Black Sabbath’s 1970 classic “War Pigs.” He was joined by Andrew Watt and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver bandmates Duff McKagan and Slash, and they did an amazing job.
Several times throughout the song, the cameras panned to the family of Ozzy, and his wife Sharon along with his children, Jack, Kelly, and Aimee, were visibly very emotional, and understandably so.
Post previously teamed up with Ozzy for a song on his 2019 album Hollywood’s Bleeding for a song called “Take What You Want,” which they later performed together at the American Music Awards. Post Malone later appeared on Ozzy’s 2020 Ordinary Man album for “It’s a Raid,” and Osbourne credited Post for encouraging him to return to music, which is quite something on Posty’s part, that’s for sure.
I thought the entire “In Memoriam” segment was great, which also featured Lauryn Hill as a headliners for the portion honoring R&B artists D’Angelo and Roberta Flack, which was awesome too.
But Post Malone is really in a league of his own in terms of true versatility in modern music, as he’s recently been very much in the country space, releasing his F-1 Trillion album in 2024 to much acclaim, and he’s planning to put out more country records this year, and I’m looking forward to it.
He has also done some awesome covers of Nirvana in the past, and he of course got started in the rap genre, and every time he does something like this I’m continually blown away by how he can move from genre to genre with such ease. There are VERY few artists who can do it and do it well, and paying tribute to an all-time great like Ozzy is extremely difficult, and I certainly think he did the entire Osbourne family very proud.
They seemed deeply touched by it, and that’s what matters… I need a studio cut of this, like yesterday. Check it out if you didn’t watch the Grammys last night. (I don’t blame you, you didn’t miss anything, but this was fantastic).
Post Malone announced new dates for his 2026 stadium tour this morning, which you can view below.
