Rapper Post Malone OK after fall on stage

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Rapper Post Malone, who performed at the Rock in Rio music festival in Brazil earlier this month, was injured but able to keep performing after falling during a concert in St. Louis on Saturday. BRUNA PRADO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Rapper Post Malone is OK after falling and bruising his ribs on Saturday during a performance in St. Louis, his manager said Sunday.

“Thank you everyone for all your well wishes! @postmalone didn’t break 3 ribs lastnite thank god,” the rapper’s manager, Dre London, wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “We did X-rays @ hospital after the show & they declared he had bruised his ribs!”

Post Malone was performing at the Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis when he fell, apparently through a hole on the stage.

Concertgoer Tana Cantrell told CNN that the accident happened about an hour into his performance.

“At the time from my angle, it looked like he just collapsed onstage, grabbing the middle of his chest,” Cantrell said. “You could see in his face and body how much pain he was in and that’s when I knew this was serious. His legs were trembling from the pain.”

“From other angles you could see that there was a hole in the stage that he had fallen through when they lowered his guitar down and they did not get the floor put back up in time,” Cantrell added.

After about 10 minutes, Post Malone got up with help from others, and went to take a break, according to Cantrell. Once he returned to the stage he repeatedly apologized before finishing the show, Cantrell said.

Dre London said the rapper finished the show “in true Posty fashion.”

Another TikTok user who was at the show, Kelly Manno, said Malone at first appeared “too hurt to even get off the stage,” according to Yahoo News. After a short break, however, Malone returned to the stage, “apologized to the crowd for ruining the show” and then “someone hands him a beer, he takes a big swig of it” and finished his set list, Manno said.

Malone opened up about the mishap in a video posted to Twitter Sunday and thanked fans “for the patience.”

“Thank you for putting up with my dumb (expletive),” Malone said. “Whenever we do the acoustic part of the show, the guitar’s on the guitar stand and it goes down, and there’s this big (expletive) hole. So, I go around there and then turn the corner and bust my (expletive).”