Take his upfront reference to his Jewish heritage in ‘PA Nights’: “ We just tryna work so we can blow up like a Molotov/Thinkin’ bout my people who was murdered in the Holocaust”. Alongside this, his ability to disorientate the listener is admirable, as he tackles important and playful subjects.
There are a few questionable deviations along the way – namely ‘Up All Night’ which sounds like a bad Ramones cover – but generally the production is so good you rarely notice Miller’s exhausting overuse of the words “ dope” and “ ill”. He raps lazily to laidback hooks, then attacks the bassier, sped-up moments with cocky wordplay. It’s layered with interesting sonic textures throughout, be they jolting injections of electronica or stoned-sounding, warped beats that lay the foundation for Miller’s drawl.
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Negatives aside, ‘Blue Slide Park’ is full of surprises, mostly in the production (helmed in the main by ID Labs, but also by A$AP Rocky favourite Clams Casino on ‘One Last Thing’). His choice of cultural references – “ Donkey Kong”, “ Scott Pilgrim”, “ hashtags” and the like – hint at horizons that have remained so far unbroadened, as does ‘Party On 5th Ave’, which includes the obligatory anthemic ‘fun’ sample from Marva Whitney’s ‘Unwind Yourself’. The album’s second weakness is Miller’s ‘frat rap’, a style that occasionally rears its ugly, snapback cap-adorned head. Strangely this running theme forms one of the album’s weaknesses, as he labours the suggestion that he’s entering a new phase of life, a point clunkily illustrated on ‘Loitering’: “ I’m too old to be chilling at the playground”. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that ‘Blue Slide Park’ (named after a favourite childhood hangout of Miller’s in Pittsburgh) is undercut with reflections on where Mac’s been.
He’s come a long way since he released ‘But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy’ at just 16 years old. Then he was featured as part of a wet dream of hip-hop hopefuls alongside Yelawolf and Lil B on hip-hop magazine XXL’s Freshman list of 2011, certifying him as a baby-faced one to watch. He’s released one album and seven mixtapes since 2007.
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Here are all of Mac Miller’s albums ranked.In hip-hop years, 20-year-old Malcolm ‘Mac Miller’ McCormick is practically old school. On September 7, 2018, Miller died from an accidental drug overdose of cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol at his home, aged 26. Miller struggled with substance abuse, which was often referenced in his lyrics. He also served as a record producer for various artists, including himself, under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. For Swimming, he was posthumously nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. With them, he released four studio albums: GO:OD AM (2015), The Divine Feminine (2016), Swimming (2018), and the posthumous Circles (2020). After his second studio album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), he left Rostrum and signed with the major label Warner Bros. In 2013, he founded the record label imprint REMember Music. Miller’s debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995.
In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller began his career in Pittsburgh’s hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of fifteen. Malcolm James McCormick (Janu– September 7, 2018), known professionally as Mac Miller, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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