Post Malone teamed up with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a fiery renditions of some of their hits for a medley at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night. First up was Post Malones Stay and Rockstar. They finished with the Chilis Dark Necessities, a single off their 2016 LPThe Getaway.
Malone kicked off the performance solo, playing an acoustic guitar and sitting on a stool as he sang Stay into a gold-tipped mic. Then the stage went dark, and he emerged again from a smokey tunnel singing Rockstar. Then the Chilis kicked things off with a chill version of Dark Necessities with Malone chipping in on vocals and guitar. During the song, Malone rushed Chad Smiths drum riser and mugged at Flea who wiggled his way in the rappers direction. Kiedis ditched his shirt and flung himself about the stage during Josh Klinghoffers feedbacky guitar solo, eventually giving a hug to Malone at the end.
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Post Malone recently teamed with another veteran rock crew when he performed Toys in the Attic and Dream On with Aerosmith at last years MTV VMAs.
The rapper was up for four awards this year. His track Rockstar is up for both Record of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Performance, Beerbongs & Bentleys is up for Album of the Year and his song Better Now is up for Best Pop Solo Performance. Prior to the broadcast, though, Better Now lost to Lady Gaga and Mark Ronsons (Joanne) Where Do You Think Youre Goin? and Rockstar lost the Best Rap/Sung Performance trophy to Childish Gambino for This Is America.
Post Malone was also slated to perform with 21 Savage at the Grammys, in a separate performance from the one with the Chilis, but the Savage was arrested by ICE. Post Malones most recent release was a video for Sunflower, his collaboration with Swae Lee for the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack.
Red Hot Chili Peppers have been nominated 12 times for Grammys and won three over the course of their career. In 1992, they took home the trophy for Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal for Give It Away. In 2006, they won Grammys for their album Stadium Arcadium (Best Rock Album and for the song Dani California (Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal). The groups last album, The Getaway, came out in 2016.
Last month, the band performed at a special benefit show in Los Angeles to raise money for victims of the fire that overtook Malibu last year. Red Hot Chili Peppers put on a no-nonsense show of material mostly culled from their last five albums, complete with wild psych solos from Josh Klinghoffer and drummer Chad Smith bursting with fireworks, Rolling Stone wrote in a review. Though the band relies heavily on gentler hits like By the Way and Scar Tissue, there were some true moments of adrenaline.