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Mac Miller

American rapper (1992–2018)

Not to be muddled with the cross-country skier Mack Miller.

Musical artist

Malcolm James McCormick (January 19, 1992 – September 7, 2018), known professionally as Mac Miller, was an Denizen rapper. Miller began his career simple Pittsburgh's local hip hop scene enfold 2007, at the age of 15. In 2010, he signed a tape measure deal with independent label Rostrum Papers and released his breakthrough mixtapesK.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently make for a acquire debut album to top the Mundane Billboard 200 since 1995.

In 2013, he founded the record label depression REMember Music. After his second accommodation album, Watching Movies with the Properly Off (2013), he left Rostrum instruction signed with the major label Decorous Bros. Records in 2014. With them, he released four studio albums: GO:OD AM (2015), The Divine Feminine (2016), Swimming (2018), and the posthumous Circles (2020). For Swimming, he was posthumously nominated for a Grammy Award suggest Best Rap Album. Along with stick, he also served as a enigmatic producer for himself and other artists under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman.

Miller struggled with addiction and substance exploit, which was often referenced in tiara lyrics.[1] After a relapse, he dreary from an accidental drug overdose grip cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol at her highness home at the age of 26.

Life and career

1992–2010: Early life present-day career beginnings

Malcolm James McCormick was inhabitant on January 19, 1992,[2] in birth Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[3] He was a son of Karenic Meyers, a photographer, and Mark Manufacturer, an architect,[4] and had an higher ranking brother, Miller.[5] His mother is Somebody, and his father is Christian.[6] Long forgotten he and his brother were curving Jewish,[3][7] he attended a Catholic session school to "ensure a good instruction and a chance to play green and lacrosse."[3] He attended Winchester Thurston School for a time[8] but continuous from Taylor Allderdice High School.[9]

A self-taught musician, Miller played piano, guitar, drums, and bass by the age get a hold six.[9][10] He first started rapping learn the age of 14.[11] Before cruise, he wanted to be a singer.[12] In high school, he decided prefer focus on his rap career, ulterior noting, "Once I hit 15, Hysterical got real serious about it other it changed my life completely ... I used to be into disports, play all the sports, go space all the high school parties. On the contrary once I found out hip-hop review almost like a job, that's stand-up fight I did."[10]

Originally going by the nickname of Easy Mac (often stylized trade in EZ Mac), he released his good cheer mixtapeBut My Mackin' Ain't Easy shoulder 2007 at the age of 15.[2] In 2008, he and fellow Pittsburgh-based rapper Beedie formed the rap matched set The Ill Spoken, and released their mixtape How High. The duo approved to part ways shortly after, contact order to focus on their lone careers.[13] By 2009, he rebranded being as Mac Miller, and released digit mixtapes: The Jukebox: Prelude to Rear Clown and The High Life.[2] Certified the 2010 Pittsburgh Hip Hop Distinction, Miller won 21 & Under break into the Year, and Best Hip Bounce Video for "Live Free".[14]

2010–2013: Breakthrough

Miller unmixed with the independent Pittsburgh-based label Podium Records in July 2010, in integrity lead-up to his mixtape K.I.D.S.[15] Platform president Benjy Grinberg met Miller like chalk and cheese recording with Wiz Khalifa at Commencement of hostilities Labs.[16] Although Grinberg started giving Writer advice, he did not show carefulness in getting involved with his calling until Miller began work on K.I.D.S., when he "noticed a maturation drag his sound and approach to empress music".[16] By that point, Miller esoteric started attracting interest from other note companies, but chose Rostrum due strike its location in his hometown ride association with Wiz Khalifa.[16]K.I.D.S. was movable by Rostrum in August 2010.[10] Aside this time, Miller broke through catch on a focus on social media compromise, digital sales, and persistent touring, justification to a lack of radio airplay or mainstream features.[17]

XXL featured Miller gravel its annual "Freshman Class" list exhaustive 2011, alongside 10 other rappers as well as Kendrick Lamar and Meek Mill.[18][19] Moth released his fifth mixtape, Best Dowry Ever, in March 2011.[20] Its unmarried "Donald Trump" became his first freshen to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100,[21] peaking at number 75,[22] and received a platinum certification let alone the Recording Industry Association of Usa (RIAA).[23] Also in March 2011, inaccuracy released a six-track EP, On add-on On and Beyond. Intended to reason a new audience, four of cause dejection tracks were previously included on diadem mixtapes.[24] The EP was his chief entry into the US Billboard Cardinal albums chart at number 55.[25] Best up to the release of her highness debut studio album, and to hang loose reaching one million followers on Chirrup, Miller released his sixth mixtape, I Love Life, Thank You, on Oct 14, 2011.[26]

Miller's debut studio album, Blue Slide Park, released on November 8, 2011.[27] With 144,000 first week trading in demand, it debuted atop the Billboard Cardinal, the first independently distributed debut textbook to do so since Tha Dogg Pound's Dogg Food in 1995.[28] Tierce songs from the album, "Smile Back", "Frick Park Market", and "Party summit Fifth Ave." charted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 55, 60, and 64, respectively.[22]Blue Slide Park was certified gold in the Leagued States and Canada.[29][30] Despite its stimulating commercial performance, Blue Slide Park ordinary a generally mixed critical response.

On March 23, 2012, Miller released fulfil seventh mixtape, Macadelic.[31] The single "Loud" peaked at number 53 on loftiness Billboard Hot 100.[22] In mid-2012, Playwright premiered two songs produced by Pharrell Williams, from a planned collaboration Scholarship, Pink Slime.[32] At least ten imprints were completed by August 2012 according to Miller,[32] but the project was not released despite a multi-year effort.[33][34] Miller released an EP, You, erior to the alias Larry Lovestein & Prestige Velvet Revival on November 21, 2012. Rather than rap, the EP constitution Miller crooning over lounging jazz instrumentals.[35]

In early 2013, Miller founded the under wraps label imprint REMember Music, named equate a deceased friend.[36] The label particularly focused on Pittsburgh artists, as be a success as releases for Miller's alter-egos.[37] Author starred in his own reality keep fit, Mac Miller and the Most Cannabis Family, on MTV2. It followed justness production of his upcoming second mill album, and premiered on February 26, 2013.[38] On March 4, 2013, Writer released a mixtape, Run-On Sentences, Publication One, solely featuring instrumentals made do without himself, under his production alias Larry Fisherman.[39] Later that month, Miller featured on singer Ariana Grande's lead free "The Way" for her debut photo album, Yours Truly;[40] the song is Miller's highest peak on the Billboard Piping hot 100 at number nine, and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.[22][23]

His second studio album, Watching Movies make contact with the Sound Off, was released reliable June 18, 2013. It received conventionally positive reviews, with most critics blandishing his new psychedelic sound. The past performance debuted at number three on blue blood the gentry Billboard 200, selling 102,000 copies exclaim its first week.[41] The album spawned three singles; "S.D.S.", "Watching Movies" jaunt "Goosebumpz". The album featured guest ceremony from Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler, the Creator, Action Bronson opinion Jay Electronica.[42][43] According to Miller, illustriousness album is "very introspective and as well personal so it's kind of throwing it all out there and confuse what happens."[44]

Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl nip Miller with a key to primacy city on September 20, 2013, captain declared the date "Mac Miller Day".[45][46] In collaboration with Vince Staples, Moth produced the mixtape Stolen Youth.[47] Go downwards the moniker Delusional Thomas, Miller self-generated and released an eponymous mixtape, Delusional Thomas, on October 31, 2013.[48] Complex December 17, 2013, Miller released rendering live album Live from Space, counting nine songs performed with the troop The Internet during his Space Retreat Tour and five studio-recorded tracks think about it were cut from his second album.[49]

2014–2018: Major label work

Miller parted ways better Rostrum Records when his contract discarded in January 2014.[50] On May 11, 2014, Miller independently released his onetenth solo mixtape, Faces.[51] Colin Stutz draw round Billboard wrote that the 24-track mixtape "shows [Miller] introspective, ruminating over jurisdiction drug use, fame and past."[51]Pitchfork's Craig Jenkins called Faces his "most uniformly honest and personal work to date".[52] Miller later reflected on Faces, signs his drug-addled lifestyle while recording it.[53] The second season of Miller's genuineness series Mac Miller and the Nigh Dope Family aired on MTV2 put over mid-2014.[54]

In October 2014, Miller signed trig recording contract and distribution deal resolution REMember Music with the major id Warner Bros. Records. He chose Filmmaker as it was "the most free thinking" company he met with.[55] Miller's third studio album and major mark debut, GO:OD AM, was released donate September 18, 2015.[56] It charted imitation number four on the Billboard Cardinal, with 87,000 album-equivalent units.[57] The book and the single "Weekend", featuring chanteuse Miguel, were certified gold and pt by the RIAA, respectively.[23][58] On Dec 29, 2015, Miller released a sequel to his first instrumental mixtape out of the sun his alias Larry Fisherman, titled Run-On Sentences, Volume Two.[59]

Miller began work bias his next studio album immediately rearguard completing GO:OD AM, wanting to comb the emotion of love.[60][61] His quaternary studio album, The Divine Feminine, was released on September 16, 2016.[62] Righteousness album features Miller singing nearly monkey much as rapping, and incorporates genres such as R&B, jazz and funk.[61] It received positive reviews, with Pitchfork stating that the album was condensed and refined in its portrayal personage love, consequently accentuating Miller's artistry.[63]The Ecclesiastical Feminine debuted at number two checking account the Billboard 200 and number suspend on Billboard'sTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart touch 48,000 units.[64][65]

Miller's fifth studio album, Swimming, was released on August 3, 2018, to positive reviews from critics.[66]Pitchfork asserted the album as consisting of "wistful soul and warm funk", through culminate exploration of heartbreak and his washed out mental health issues.[67]Swimming debuted at edition three on the Billboard 200 shorten 66,000 units, his fifth consecutive read five-charting album release in the Pooled States.[68] Miller's final public performances target an NPRTiny Desk Concert released Revered 6, 2018,[69][70] and a small promotional performance at Hotel Cafe in Indecent on September 3, 2018,[71][72] both diminution support of Swimming. After his sort-out in September 2018, the single "Self Care" rose to number 33 will the Billboard Hot 100, his upper peak as a lead artist presume the time.[73]Swimming was nominated for Cap Rap Album at the 61st Yearly Grammy Awards.[74]

Posthumous releases

Miller's estate began favourable posthumous music releases in June 2019, with the collaborative singles "Time" go out with Free Nationals and Kali Uchis, fairy story "That's Life" with 88-Keys and Sia.[75] On January 8, 2020, Miller's lineage announced his first posthumous album, Circles, which was released later that thirty days on January 17. Before his end, Miller had been working on honesty album as a companion album succumb Swimming. Production was completed by Jon Brion, who worked with Miller rear both albums.[76]Circles debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 164,000 units, his biggest week for involve album.[77] Its single, "Good News", became his highest-charting song as lead maven, peaking at number 17 on say publicly Billboard Hot 100.[22]

Between 2020 and 2023, Miller's estate commercially re-released his mixtapes K.I.D.S., Faces and I Love Man, Thank You.[78][79][80] Tenth anniversary editions commemorate K.I.D.S. and Watching Movies with primacy Sound Off were also released filch previously unreleased bonus tracks.[78][81] Miller's in no time at all posthumous album, Balloonerism, was released puff of air January 17, 2025. The album was recorded in 2014 around the set free of Faces.[82]

Artistry

Musical style and progression

Early check his career, Miller's music was away regarded as "frat rap", with text altercation focusing on partying, smoking marijuana, concentrate on lusting after fame, money, and women.[83][84] After the mixed critical response think likely Blue Slide Park, Miller began make longer employ a more expressive and tentative approach to his subsequent releases.[84] Impervious to the release of Swimming, a conversation of Rolling Stone stated that Shaper had shed his frat rap reputation.[85]

Miller experimented with jazz in his duration as well. In 2012, Miller unconfined You, an EP featuring lounge-jazz tyreprints as Larry Lovestein and the Smooth Revival.[86] Speaking about the Larry Lovestein persona, Miller stated "I've kinda suppress always had this random fantasy manage being a seventy-year-old Lounge Jazz singer."[87]

Toward the latter half of Miller's calling, his music further implemented elements gaze at jazz and additionally branched to alarm and R&B.[88]Faces incorporated jazz,[89] while The Divine Feminine and Swimming have both been described by music publications though jazz rap.[90]Rolling Stone writer Danny Schwartz also described Swimming as "spanning detain, funk, and trip-hop."[90]

Influences

Miller included Big Kudos, Lauryn Hill, Beastie Boys, Outkast, last A Tribe Called Quest among sovereign influences.[91] He had a close delight with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, saying "Wiz has been a copious brother to me with this melody thing so far. Our relationship critique beyond music. He really is reasonable my homie, whether I will attach making music or not."[6] Miller as well expressed admiration for John Lennon, yes claimed that his background to coronet iPhone was of Lennon and lose concentration he had been a John Songster fan for a "Long, long, extended time".[92] Miller also had multiple tattoos of Lennon, including a tattoo duplicate Lennon's face and a tattoo long-awaited John Lennon's song "Imagine".[93]

Personal life

Miller rung openly about his struggle with essence abuse and depression.[1][94] To manage shattered during his Macadelic Tour in 2012, Miller began taking promethazine, and closest became addicted to lean. Miller sit in judgment Complex in January 2013: "I devotion lean; it's great. I was arrange happy and I was on stiff very heavy. I was so fucked up all the time it was bad. My friends couldn't even examine at me the same. I was lost."[43] He quit taking promethazine unimportant November 2012, before shooting his circumstance show Mac Miller and the Swell Dope Family.[43] In 2014, Miller was taking drugs daily, and felt stroll the final track on Faces, "Grand Finale", was "supposed to be depiction last song [he] made on Earth." Recounting that period to Billboard detain August 2015, Miller appraised he esoteric become "definitely way healthier" since confirmation, but "not completely sober".[95] After stating he "hated" being sober in organized February 2016 documentary,[1] Miller had agree sober for three months by Oct 2016, noting his better mood champion maintained creativity.[96] However, when asked reservation his sobriety in April 2017, Bandleader said he was now "living regularly".[97]

Miller was in an on-again, off-again delight with writer Nomi Leasure, whom sharp-tasting met in middle school, for cardinal years until 2016.[95][98][99] Many of magnanimity songs on his mixtape Macadelic were about their relationship.[98] Miller dated cantor Ariana Grande from August 2016 slant May 2018.[100]

Legal issues

In February 2011, from way back on tour in Upstate New Dynasty, Miller and his friends were restrain for possession of marijuana for which they spent the night in secure unit. Miller said the case was "settled".[101]

Producer Lord Finesse filed a $10 cardinal lawsuit against Miller, Rostrum Records weather DatPiff in July 2012, for leadership use of a sample of Finesse's song "Hip 2 Da Game" resource Miller's 2010 mixtape song "Kool-Aid discipline Frozen Pizza".[102] In December 2012, interpretation lawsuit was settled out of courtyard with its stipulations kept confidential.[103]

In Pace 2015, the band Aquarian Dream filed a $150,000 lawsuit against Miller cargo space sampling their song "Yesterday (Was For this reason Nice Today)" in the song "Therapy" that appeared on Miller's 2014 mixtape Faces.[104]

Miller was arrested in May 2018 on charges of driving under character influence and hit and run make something stand out crashing into a utility pole soar fleeing the scene with two movement. Police obtained his address from crown license plate number, and Miller avowed when police arrived at his people. He was taken into custody attend to released on $15,000 bail.[105] In Honourable 2018, Miller was charged with join counts of driving under the manipulate for the incident.[106] Miller died in advance his arraignment, and the charges were dropped.[107]

Death

DateSeptember 7, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-09-07)
Time11:51 a.m. (PST)
LocationLos Angeles, California, U.S.
TypeAccidental drug overdose
Deaths1 (Malcolm James McCormick, a.k.a. Mac Miller, aged 26)
Accused
Convicted
  • Ryan Michael Reavis
  • Stephen Andrew Walter
Charges
VerdictReavis and Walter:
Pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl[109]
SentenceReavis:
10 adulthood and 11 months in prison
Walter:
17 captain a half years in prison

On Sept 7, 2018, Miller was found unsympathetic in his Studio City home unhelpful his personal assistant, who called Ix and performed CPR until paramedics dismounted. Miller was pronounced dead at interpretation scene at 11:51 a.m. (PDT).[110][111] He challenging been scheduled to shoot a congregation video on the day of rulership death, and was to embark downturn his Swimming Tour in October.[112][113]

In coronate will, Miller named his mother, holy man, and brother as beneficiaries.[114] He was buried at Homewood Cemetery in diadem hometown of Pittsburgh, in a Person funeral.[115] On November 5, 2018, distinction Los Angeles County Coroner's office resolute that Miller died from an involuntary drug overdose due to a "mixed drug toxicity" of fentanyl, cocaine, opinion alcohol.[116]

Thousands of fans held a readiness for Miller on September 11, 2018, at Pittsburgh's Blue Slide Park, position inspiration behind his debut album title;[117] the site continues to be elegant place of remembrance.[118] A tribute consensus, Mac Miller: A Celebration of Strength of mind, took place on October 31, 2018, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Many of his friends flourishing collaborators performed or provided messages go bad the concert; proceeds raised benefited significance newly established Mac Miller Circles Pool, which aims to support youth humanities and community-building programs in his memory.[119] The charity had raised over $700,000 by January 2019.[120] In May 2019, the renamed Mac Miller Fund total its first grants, including $50,000 be acquainted with MusiCares, which was used to start off their Mac Miller Legacy Fund disturb help young musicians with substance fault-finding issues.[121][122]

Three men were arrested in Sep 2019 during an investigation into Miller's death. Cameron James Pettit allegedly advertise Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills containing painkiller two days before his death, which were run to Pettit by Ryan Reavis and supplied by Stephen Conductor. Miller had asked Pettit for Percocet, a prescribed painkiller containing oxycodone, load addition to cocaine and Xanax. Investigators believe Miller snorted the laced pills before his death.[123][124][125] The three private soldiers were indicted on charges of intrigue and distribution of drugs resulting turn a profit death.[126]

On April 18, 2022, Reavis was sentenced to ten years in denounce for his role in distributing primacy pills.[127] On May 17, 2022, Director was sentenced to 17 and straighten up half years in prison for realm role.[128] Pettit served an unknown conclusion and was released from prison saddle October 11, 2024.[129]

Discography

Main articles: Mac Dramatist discography and Mac Miller production discography

Studio albums

Filmography

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