Post Malone is gonna have to change his name to Santa Malone after an insanely generous tip he dropped over the holidays. Turns out, on Christmas Eve, Posty gave a bartender a $20,000 tip that the single mother says has “changed my life.”
“Going into work Christmas Eve I was so sad I had to leave baby girl to go to work,” Renee Brown wrote on Instagram, alongside a picture of herself and Malone. “Oblivious that god would send me a Christmas miracle.”
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“This is hands down the most humble personable celebrity I’ve had the pleasure of meeting,” she continued. “He changed my life on Christmas fucking Eve and I will forever be grateful.”
Brown also spoke to Music Mayhem about her encounter with Malone at The Railyard bar, sharing that Shaboozey accompanied him — as well as some of their entourage — the day before they both appeared alongside Beyoncé on the NFL Christmas Day Halftime Show.
The bartender explained that she’d heard Malone was at their bar quite a while before she saw him, causing her to initially think it was a joke. “I told all my regulars not to be weird and bug him as it’s a neighborhood dive bar,” she said, “and I’m sure he picked a place like that to feel a sense of normalcy.”
Brown added that the group’s bill had already been settled, but Malone came back to have her charge him for something so that he could leave her a tip. “So he asked me to ring him up for a penny or anything, so I did,” she recalled. “I continued my close and collected all my checks and started to enter my tips. Then I got to his. It was a tip for 20,000 dollars.”
“I immediately broke down crying,” Brown continued. “It was a very emotional night already being away from home, being swamped behind the bar, trying to process that they were even there and then the tip on top.”
“I finally got a chance to stop cleaning and talk to him some more and thank him,” she finally added. “I know I was crying and thanking him, but he has no idea exactly how much this meant to me.”
