Watch Randy Travis Play Beer Pong Backstage At A Post Malone Show

File this under ‘unlikely crews we didn’t know we needed’: When rapper Post Malone came to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for a stop on his Twelve Carat Toothache tour on Sunday, Oct. 16, a few country stars became fans for the night, including none other than Randy Travis.

Not only did Travis attend the show, but he also got to party with Posty himself backstage. Video posted by Billy Strings – another of the evening’s VIP country guests – shows Travis trying his hand at a game of beer pong, tossing a cue ball and grinning hugely amid backstage antics.

While it’s not entirely clear who Travis is playing against, Malone was definitely part of the game. The video shows him cheering on Travis from the sidelines, a cigarette in his hand and a red Solo mug in front. him.

The video is on the second slide of Strings’ social media post from Malone’s show, while the first shows a snapshot of Strings and Posty with fellow guest star Luke Bryan. Bryan also came to the show as a fan, an event the country superstar has documented on his own social media.

The rapper saw a lot of love from all sides of the country music community during his show in Nashville, and the feeling is mutual: he’s shown a bit of country fandom over the past two years. At the 2019 American Music Awards, Malone danced and sang to Shania Twain’s performance of “Man! I Feel Like a Woman”, and Twain later said he was on her list of artists she would like to collaborate with. In 2021, Malone skillfully covered Brad Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)” for Matthew McConaughey we are texans benefit to.

When the cover performance video resurfaced in 2022, it received praise from Paisley himself, who commented, “That’s better than me” on TikTok and changed his bio on the platform to read: “I write for Post Malone”. Around this time, Malone also hinted during an appearance on SiriusXM The Howard Stern Show that he doesn’t rule out the possibility of making a country album one day.

“To be honest, there’s nothing stopping me from picking up a camera or setting up in my studio in Utah and recording a country album. [to put] on YouTube,” he told Stern at the time. “I have the right to do this, I’m a human being.”

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