That song would be followed by Blue Slide Park, Miller’s 2011 debut album named after Frick Park in Pittsburgh. Among his earliest hits was “Donald Trump,” a light-hearted song that would lead to a feud between Miller and the now-President. Miller found wild success in the era of hip-hop blogs as a rapper that catered to fans in his direct demographic: young, and looking to have fun.
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He quickly racked up an enormous following as a good-natured, preternaturally talented wordsmith while still in his teens, releasing a series of mixtapes.īy 2010, he’d ditched the moniker for the simpler Mac Miller, and signed with Rostrum Records, the label of fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, whose career was burgeoning at the time. Miller was born in Pittsburgh in 1992, and first broke onto the hip-hop scene when he began rapping at 14 under the alias EZ Mac. “I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety and prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course).” “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be,” she wrote. According to tweets from his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande, his substance abuse was a reason the pair broke up after two years. After a years-long period of sobriety, he began to drink again. Miller had been open about his addiction issues in the past, and had discussed his dependence on lean - a combination of codeine and promethazine - extensively. And not to make this such a dark moment like that, but from that moment it's like I was changed forever, even if I didn't want to, it just changed me, and that's just one example of the thing of it is what it is.Miller, whose real name is Malcolm McCormick, had publicly struggled with substance abuse throughout his career, and had a well-publicized DUI arrest in May of this year.
As he was going to bed, I said, ‘I love you,’ and he said it back the next day, to wake up to, and like, it scarred the hell out of me.
That doesn't specifically haunt me, but it was literally like I never missed the chance to tell the guy I loved him, and I'm thankful I did. It traumatized me, and it almost haunts me a bit, because I told him I loved him. What it was going to be, making jokes, as we would, and saying good night to him, and not knowing what was coming next. He continued, “ was excited, we were talking about tour. I could hear it as it was coming,” Thundercat said. I didn't share this with anybody, even to this degree, but it's just like I said goodnight to him on the phone. It was a very difficult thing to process. During the conversation, Thundercat revealed how “trying” and “traumatic” last year was for him because of Miller’s death, and shared a story he’s never told anyone before about the night the rapper passed. The musician stopped by Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show on Apple Music to discuss his forthcoming album It Is What It Is and premiere his single “Black Qualls,” featuring Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, and Donald Glover. Thundercat has opened up about how Mac Miller’s death impacted him.
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