Just over a month after country music icon Toby Keith died at age 62 after a three-year battle with stomach cancer, Post Malone honored the singer.
Malone, 28 (born Austin Richard Post) performed at the American Rodeo in Dallas on Saturday when he honored Keith in two different ways.
The shirtless singer first raised a red solo cup of beer and took a drink, a nod to Keith’s 2011 hit song Red Solo Cup.
He then broke into Keith’s 2005 hit single I Ain’t As Good As I Once Was on stage while performing on an acoustic guitar.
Malone posted a video clip from the performance on his TikTok page with the caption ‘As Good As I Once Was RIP @Toby Keith’.
Just over a month after country music icon Toby Keith died at age 62 after a three-year battle with stomach cancer, Post Malone honored the singer.
The shirtless singer first raised a red solo cup of beer and took a drink, a nod to Keith’s 2011 hit song Red Solo Cup
He then broke into Keith’s 2005 hit single I Ain’t As Good As I Once Was on stage while performing on an acoustic guitar
Malone posted a video clip from the performance on his TikTok page with the caption ‘As Good As I Once Was RIP @Toby Keith.’
Another video from the event showed Malone saying: ‘Rest in peace to Toby Keith, ladies and gentlemen’, prompting another round of applause.
A few weeks after Keith’s passing, country singer ERNEST shared a reel on Instagram of singer Malone singing Keith’s 2002 hit Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American).
“AMERICA us at 2am,” he captioned the photo, adding the hashtag #RIPTobyKeith.
Keith died on February 5 and his family issued a brief statement confirming his death.
‘Toby Keith passed peacefully last night on February 5 surrounded by his family. He fought his battle with grace and courage. Please respect his family’s privacy at this time,” the statement read.
The singer is survived by his wife, Tricia Lucas, and their three children, daughters Shelley Covel Rowland, fellow singer Krystal Keith and son, Stelen. He also had four grandchildren. During his illustrious career, Keith sold over 40 million records.
Earlier this month, the singer opened up about his battle with stomach cancer in an interview with 9 News. The Should’ve Been a Cowboy singer was first diagnosed in 2021. Keith was born Toby Keith Covel in Clinton, Oklahoma, in 1961.
‘I went through all the chemo, radiation, surgery and I got to the point where I was comfortable with whatever happened. I had my brain wrapped around it and I was in a good place either way,” Keith said.
Keith died on February 5 and his family issued a brief statement confirming his death.
‘Toby Keith passed peacefully last night on February 5 surrounded by his family. He fought his battle with grace and courage. Please respect his family’s privacy at this time,” the statement read.
The singer is survived by his wife, Tricia Lucas, and their three children, daughters Shelley Covel Rowland, fellow singer Krystal Keith and son, Stelen. He also had four grandchildren. During his illustrious career, Keith sold over 40 million records.
In December 2023, he performed his final shows, a three-date residency in Las Vegas. Afterwards, he even teased that he was planning a US tour and said he was ‘getting the trucks and buses fired up’.
During the 9News interview, singer Keith, a longtime resident of Norman, Oklahoma, called his wife ‘the best nurse.’
‘Oh, she’s been a soldier. She is the best nurse. The first time we went to Houston, at the hospital, she just walked in and she just took control and said, ‘We got this. Let’s go.’ So she says, ‘We’ll get this and don’t worry about it,”’ he added.
In that interview, Keith mentioned that his Christian faith helped him through his cancer battle.
‘Cancer is a roller coaster. You’re just sitting here waiting for it to go away – it might never go away.’