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Whenever Post Malone listens to Pearl Jam‘s “Better Man,” he thinks of his brother. While appearing on _The Howard Stern Show_, the musician — who recently dropped his album _Twelve Carat
Toothache_ — performed an acoustic rendition of the Eddie Vedder-penned track. He told Stern that he and his family went to go visit his brother when he was younger. “I remember my brother
Jordan, he was a Marine, and he was stationed in Hawaii. And we went to go see him. I was 12, 13, maybe,” Malone said about the song. “And he played this song, and we were driving around.
This was on an island you could drive around in a couple of hours. And he played it, and I guess I’ve just been thinking about that a lot lately.” When asked by Stern if the song reminded
him of his brother, he replied, “Every moment. And it makes me fuckin’ cry. He is just a beautiful man. And he introduced me to Pearl Jam in a big fuckin’ way.” Accompanied by just an
acoustic guitar, Malone closed his eyes as he emotionally sang his rendition of the 1994 _Vitalogy _hit. “She lies and says she’s in love with him/Can’t find a better man,” Malone sang. “She
dreams in color, she dreams in red/Can’t find a better man.” The performance came as he revealed to Stern that he had recently welcomed a baby daughter with his fiancée. I went and I kissed
my baby girl and then I went to play some video games,” Malone told Stern, before adding, “I want to let her make her own decisions. That’s it.” The artist is set to go on a massive North
American tour this summer in support of his new LP. “I love touring and I love meeting my fans and singing these songs with them, but at the same time, it’s such an ass-kicker. My back kills
me, my neck kills me, my feet kill me,” Malone told _Billboard_ earlier this year. “There’s a lot to think about, and there’s a lot to focus on. You kind of have to have chameleon eyes and
look every which way and keep track of what’s going on at all times. It’s the give-and-take — you give up so much and you receive it in love, and that’s what everything is about: feeling
loved. That’s what everybody wants.”