Mac Miller: Post #35

Mac Miller always had music in his heart. Born January 19, 1992, he taught himself guitar, drums, piano and bass by the age of six, and began taking his talent to rap when he was fourteen.
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A GQ piece after Mac’s untimely death in 2018 stated that he was ‘Proof a rapper could grow up.’ Throughout his early discography, he was pigeonholed into the white frat rappers that came before him, supposedly destined to fall short in the same areas - namely progression.
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Mac’s early projects were wildly successful, partly thanks to a series of low-budget videos that went viral on the relatively new platform of Youtube. Although his fans loved that sound and the care-free adolescent energy it projected, Mac’s projects were almost universally panned in critical reviews, a 1 star from Pitchfork magazine for Blue Slide Park ending a string of upbeat college party anthems.
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Mac Miller in 2013 for Complex - “A lot of the reviews were more on me as a person. To be honest, that was even worse. You’re 19, you’re so excited to put out your first album, you put it out - and no one has any respect for you or for what you did."
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Forging friendships with artists including Schoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt, and later legendary producer Rick Rubin, his personal struggle was on full display on Macadelic and Faces. Miller reached for new sounds, taking inspirations jazz and the Beatles came into brilliant effect in songs like ‘Fight the Feeling’ and ‘Objects in the Mirror’.
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In many ways, his sound grew up with his audience, deeply effecting many in the painful lyrics shown on albums like GOOD A.M, and after the end of his relationship with Ariana Grande, Swimming. With a career that ended at 26, Circles doesn’t feel as much an end as a beginning.
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Mac Miller was a truly amazing artist with talent and passion with no bounds. He was an once in a lifetime talent that had to face the hard truths of life with no protection from the outside world. His music was his life, he was an open book which made him vulnerable. Vulnerable to hardship, pain, and suffering. Mac Miller like most artist flirted with drugs, sex, and alcohol, in the end that what killed him. He didn't die because he was sad however he died because he wanted all of life yet all of life is too much for anyone to bear. Mac Miller is surely missed by me and every single one of his fans. I am happy that we have his music to remember him by, rest in peace Mac Miller