Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has revealed that he wrote a song with Post Malone, and he thinks it could be the next “Beat It.”
During an interview on the Allison Hagendorf Show Podcast, he said, “We worked out a pretty sick jam. To me it felt like it could be, for him, like his 'Beat It' by Michael Jackson — a big pop star paired with Eddie Van Halen and made something that no-one had expected. ‘This could be your 'Beat It,' dude!'” He added, “He just won’t finish the song.”
As to how the collaboration came about, Morello said, “We went into the studio together one night. I had heard that he was a fan of rock and so I went by, and he is a lovely dude. First of all, he’s just a lovely, lovely person. He is trippy. You know how some people have guitar techs, or drum techs… he had a Coors Light tech! Laughs There was a guy whose sole job apparently was just make sure there is a stack of cold Coors Light… It took about four hours of sitting around with Coors Light before we did any recording.”
Not much progress appears to have been made after that night and Morello still encourages the rapper to finish it up whenever he sees him. He explained, “I’m like, ‘You’re still dropping the ball on that one.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, man, I’m gonna do that.’ I’m like, ‘Okay,” he adds with a laugh, enthusing, “It’s sick!”