Cooped Up
by Post Malone (featuring Roddy Ricch)

Album: Twelve Carat Toothache (2022)
Charted: 18 12
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Songfacts®:

  • To be cooped up means being confined for a length of time in a place that is too small. Because of the quarantines and limitations on public gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic, Post Malone couldn't release much music or go on tour. With the easing of the lockdown, he didn't feel cooped up anymore. "I've been out of my bag for a long time, and I'm trying to hop back in there, man," he told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "We knew what we wanted to say, and we knew what we wanted to express, not only in a song but in that particular moment on the album. And yeah, it just came super naturally."
  • While the chorus finds Post Malone talking of ending his cabin fever, on his verse the Texan rapper revels in his luxurious lifestyle and use of illegal substances.
  • Roddy Ricch raps a guest verse where he too boasts about his wealth and success. He also shows his gratitude to for the opportunities Malone has given him.

    And Posty took me on my first damn tour date
    He had me rockin' every night, sold out arenas


    A pre-famous Roddy Ricch supported Post Malone during the European leg of his Beerbongs & Bentleys tour between February and March 2019. The day after Ricch's last show with Post Malone, he jumped on a remix of the Texan rapper's Hollywood's Bleeding track "Wow." This song is their first collaboration since then.
  • Ricch wrote his verse and Post Malone penned the rest of the song with his go-to collaborators, Canadian songwriter Billy Walsh, and American producer Louis Bell. Malone and Bell co-produced the track.
  • Post Malone performed the song during the May 14, 2022 episode of Saturday Night Live. Ricch joined Malone halfway through on the stage, backed by large circular lights resembling candles.

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