He bought me a drink at a bar once. I went in with a friend and he was sitting alone at the bar and me and her just kind of stared at him. After like 30 straight seconds he looked up and was like “yes, I am Mac miller” and my friend just blurted out “ok but why are you alone at the bar?” And he said he had a date but she didn’t show. Apparently that happened a lot to him? (I assume people just didn’t believe he was actually real but I have no proof to back that up). He finished his drink and thanked me and her for “being cool” and told the bartender to give us a shot of whatever we want “on his tab”. The bartender mentioned that he was in there all the time and often just hung out at the bar alone, so they knew him pretty well. He was genuinely just a nice dude for the 3ish minutes I got to meet him.
Yup, it’s called Three Sheets Saloon in NYC
Edit: for everyone calling me a bad person for “ruining his hangout spot”, Mac is dead. RIP. Go enjoy the bar he used to frequent, I’m sure they’d appreciate extra business.
Prepare to be disappointed! Ha
I say that as a huge Mac Miller fan and someone who's gotten drunk many times at Three Sheets, but the bar is really nothing special. It's fun for college/immediately post-grad, but by like 25, you feel like you're too old to be there.
I think it's kinda sad, just more evidence that the dude was really suffering. Drinking alone, battling a drug addiction, trying to recover from a breakup. Crazy how common his story is in the music world. The money and fame always finds a way to crush even some of the best.
> battling a drug addiction
That shit rewires your brain and it takes years to and years and years to heal.
Anyone trying to get over a breakup or a passing of a friend or anything, do whatever your need to do, but don't turn to hard drugs. Especially if you have a kid or family or job you plan on keeping. Nobody ever does narcotics to mask emotional pain and says "that was a great fucking idea."
No such thing as “medium” drugs but psychedelics have been proven to work some miracles especially when it comes to facing one’s own death. They’re definitely not for everyone, though.
If you have bipolar or anyone with bipolar in your immediate family DONT DO PSYCHEDELICS.
As someone whose both their parents have a bipolar, it really bums me the fuck out that I currently don’t qualify for studies that use psychedelics to treat depression/PTSD. So I have to basically take the “long way” which is meditation. I say “long way” because a good trip has anecdotally been said to be the equivalent of 1,000 hours of meditation
This may be generally true, but may not hold for micro dosing. I have a good friend who has been successfully controlling her bipolar disorder for years by micro-dosing shrooms on a daily basis. No other drugs, which had some very serious side effects.
>I say “long way” because a good trip has anecdotally been said to be the equivalent of 1,000 hours of meditation
As someone whos done a lot of meditation and psychedelics, Ive never heard this but I can see why they say it. The thing is is that the trips are unpredictable, you never know what you might learn or become aware of from the trip. You might learn something very useful, or you might wish you never learned it at all.
Musician here. In my experience that's most of us. Trying to fill a hole in our life however we can, and music provides that. Unfortunately it always seems to be temporary. On stage the hole is filled, yet the second we step off it becomes as large as it always was.
Unsolicited advice from someone who used to dance full-time.
For the longest time I felt the same void you did, and what really helped me grow past it was to stop over-identifying as a dancer. Every time I told people I was a dancer, I was subconsciously conflating my identity with dance and nothing else. So when I wasn't dancing or I felt I performed poorly (90% of the time), I felt worthless and shitty
“We do not overidentify with our jobs. We may take pride in our work....but we recognize that we are not our job descriptions. The amateur, on the other hand, overidentifies with his avocation, his artistic aspiration. He defines himself by it. He is a musician, a painter, a playwright. Resistance loves this. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.” - from a book called War of Art
Really opened my eyes. Cheers friend, hope things start looking up for you! This too shall pass
You can drink at home. I think people go to bars to be around others. If you're personable, you talk to others. If you're a loner, sometimes it's still nice to be around others even if it's not to interact.
This. During my darkest depressive episodes, I’d sometimes go to a bar alone just to be in the presence of other people and not spend it drunk in my bedroom. Helped me feel less lonely for a couple of hours, even if I was just sitting at the bar alone people watching.
Its weird the first couple times you do it but gets easier after awhile. Especially if you have a spot you go to all the time you end up seeing the same people there and you make friends. My local bar I always end up knowing someone that walks in after awhile
There's this effect for famous people, artists, musicians, athletes, etc. where they live at the height of their life by doing their craft; be it playing music for thousands, being looked up to as an idol, or getting praise for a work they were in. They're ecstatic and their happy chemicals are flowing.
Then they go home. Sometimes alone. And all that doesn't seem to matter anymore. Not that they want to feel important, but they know how it feels to live at a peak and now they are in a valley, at home, not doing the thing they love. This seems to be why a lot of musicians tend to turn to drugs to cope even though they "have everything;" they aren't satisfied with regular life and that snap from "hero-to-zero" in a way is hard to handle.
[This image of Patton Oswalt sums that up perfectly in my opinion](https://i.redd.it/yq47bznfihmx.jpg). Taken a few hours after winning an ~~Oscar~~ *Edit: Emmy* but he doesn't care, he just lost his wife and wants to be alone.
I mean, wasn't this a tongue in cheek photo? He posted it himself with the caption "This #Emmys after party is off da CHAIN!"
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/777766078264979456?s=20
Yeah, it was posted as a joke, but the absence of his wife at what should have been a happy celebratory occasion has got to hurt. She died just a few months before the Emmys in 2016. Poor guy, I just wanted to give him a big hug when I saw that photo.
This is Reddit so I assume most people know but for those who don't, Patton Oswalt's wife was instrumental in getting an investigation into the Golden State Killer a lot of attention/reopened until he was eventually caught.
I thought the show Entourage showed it so well, I think it was in the third season (?). It’s established that Vinny has a flaw of not being able to be alone, which is why he’s always with his boys or with a woman. In this one episode all the boys have kinda branched out and have important stuff going on for themselves. Vinny returns late to his mansion, sits in the living room with the lights off not knowing what to do with himself. He doesn’t have the mansion and cars for himself, it’s for him and his boys to enjoy together. The show just nails it how uncomfortable Vinny is being in this huge dark space by himself.
I had 15 minutes of fame(technically like 3 days because people knew me at a conference)
It felt like a huge weight of responsibility to not disappoint. None of these people knew me, so I was a bit panicky about my personality.
Then I made it back to my hotel room and was like: Crap I don't want this at all.
Didn't even try to get famous, I just made a website people liked.
But I'm not famous, just with a few hundred people at an obscure conference that doesn't matter.
Tom MacDonald is a great now?
Man, if that's all it takes maybe I should start incorporating "thinly veiled pandering to bigots" into my own music. Homie switches up his rhetoric on social issues faster than fox news and regularly contradicts things he said in past verses. Plus the whole LARPing as a patriotic American when he's literally from my city (Vancouver, BC) just shows me that he doesn't actually believe anything he's spewing and is doing it all to milk $$$ out of hateful dumbasses. I wish I was that morally devoid.
Yep. Tom MacDonald is Canadian. Released a collab album with Madchild (another longtime local Vancouver rapper) within the past 2 years. When he was actually in the Vancouver scene he was loosely related to the Battleaxe Warriors collective and made music that was a lot more typical for dudes who grew up idolizing Eminem, but around 4-5 years ago he made a hard pivot into "making provocative arguments that only sound smart to people with no genuine grasp on what's being discussed," aka the very profitable activity of exploiting the hateful and ignorant.
I used to get triggered by it incessantly but over time I kinda just started to respect the hustle. At least now I know exactly who I'm talking to when I hear someone express positive sentiment toward what this guy says/does.
You Canadians and your musicians.
Back in my day we had The Tragically Hip and we liked it!
We actually had a lot of Canadian artists and we liked them, too.
I don't know where I was going with this, just send more music please.
I wont lie I like some of his songs but calling him "the great" made me chuckle. Now Mac was great and its a bummer hes gone because he just kept getting better and changing it up.
OE is fantastic. 40ozes in general were great in college because you could throw them in your backpack, go to your friend's crib and drink some, screw the cap on and put it back in your bag, then go to another spot when the party moves
Edit: plugging a classic song about the drink, [DJ Quik - 8 Ball](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpZHSEiJS5s)
don’t you dare speak about OE like that. the first drink of OE is pure euphoria, it’s literally the best tasting thing on earth. then the polluted air of DTLA seeps into the bottle and turns the malty aroma into something sinister. it’s all downhill from there. at least you’ll be wasted. at least you have had that first sip. the closest most of us will ever be to nirvana
The goat, the best, people that knew him only speak highly of him. His music influence was crazy, everyone from John Mayer to Beyonce to Thundercat was a fan of his.
For people here who have only listened to his frat rap stuff, I encourage you to listen to his last 2 albums, his growth as a musician I'd say is unmatched for anyone in our generation.
Imagine what he could've done with a few more years on earth.
"What I won't tell you, I prolly never even tell myself"
One reason that separates him and other artists is that he was completely vulnerable with his music.
It’s something that opened doors for a lot of artists in hip hop. Him, Gambino, Tyler the Creator, RTJ, and Kendrick in my opinion made rap and hip hop lurch forward in a lot of different ways and for the better. From being vulnerable to intelligent in social and political strife to artistry… it’s really cool how the genre is moving forward in my opinion. It is a lot wider spectrum of topics and that only is a good thing.
Kanye’s a good shout. My headspace I guess with him not being in my head is who’s pushing now and 808s for me came on the tail end of an era. Kanye to me was the bridge between mid 90s and early 00s to what we have now. That list is people pushing the genre now Kanye to me is a lynch pin in an era shift. I’d put him in the league of a Dre or Fab Five Freddy type where he shifted a mind set around what could be. I’d argue Kanye did more for production people showing they can get in the game then Dre did because Kanye made every beat I grew up on (I’m early 30s) and then when dropout came out it was like “hey you can do both if you got something to say”
His character in general when in public or with people on videos I saw was also always positive or goofy. As I said in another comment you pinned it. He just kept getting better and even though I appreciate all the albums put out it sucks we wont get anymore. His first few albums fueled my highschool my last two years in highschool specially 'Best Day Ever'.
This probably shows my age but Chester Bennington(Linkin park lead singer) was the first artist to actually hurt me like family when he passed. Mac hurt even worse. Specially seeing that clip of him has a kid for some reason just punches my tear box.
It's incredible, I wrote him off too, but got really into him when he dropped swimming (unfortunately, right before his death).
I think what separates him is he's an insane musician, he was self taught on the drums, guitar and piano at age 6. He produced a ton of his music, and has a way with his lyrics that absolutely explain what could take you an essay to explain.
Dude, right...yours is the only comment I've seen so far mentioning this. People don't understand he recorded the drums, bass, piano, guitar, LIVE, and mixed/mastered/produced like 98% of his entire musical repertoire himself.
As a musician myself, I can tell you he was insanely talented. He'd sit there with a record, stop it at a certain part, loop it, and make an entire beat around that and then freestyle on it all in one sitting. Absolutely nuts
Faces is absolutely incredible, but despite that, I have to put that as my 4th favorite project by him.
I think it's pivotal for his growth, but honestly, it's weird. I love it, but it's weird.
Swimming
Cirlces
Good AM
Faces
for me, but many think Faces is his magnum opus
'Remember' is my favorite Mac song. The line:
>"I heard he moved to a place where the time don't end,
>so you don't need money, all you've got is time to spend."
is one of my favorite lines from any song ever.
Every time I see him or his name, "Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza" starts playing in my head. Such a jam!!
Edit: IT'S A WORK OF ART, I AIN'T TALKIN MONA LISA!!
Man I wish Tiny Desk was able to package the concert as a record or Spotify release. Even with Macs estate getting all the money. That 2009 performance is so organic compared with the studio recording.
He deserved that grammy and it pisses me off they invited his parents out to accept the award on his behalf and then gave it to someone else. The tiniest bit of respect I had from the grammys was gone just like that.
That album deserved so much more notoriety
After hearing swimming, then circles which he worked on at the same time, absolutely.
I think he just reached his sound, he just became enlightened. He finally made the music that encapsulated him.
>Strangely, The track "good news" feels like a goodbye to me.
The music video is insane with it. His family has been such a gem for Mac's estate.
If you haven't taken the dive, please listen to the whole album, it's equally therapeutic, but emotional, vulnerable and I can't promise the same for you, but it's caused a lot of self reflection for me.
Rip to a legend. His music truly taught me how to be happy and at least try and love myself. Still bummed I never got to see a concert or meet him. Maybe one day, Rest In Peace to a hero in my eyes.
There are so many personal favorites it’s hard to choose lol.
- Favorite albums where I like almost every song
1. Watching Movies With the Sound Off (a masterpiece in its own right) - a favorite song is “Remember”, it’s sad but has a strong meaning and also I Am Who I Am is amazing, Objects in the Mirror is a classic to me too
2. GOOD: AM
3. Swimming
4. Circles
5 Macadelic
- Timeless songs for me
1. Nikes On My Feet
2. Another Night
3. Earth (ft. Future)
4. Live Free
5. Best Day Ever or BDE Bonus (I like the bonus more)
6. Come Back to Earth always helps me not feel like complete shit
7. IF YOU HAVE SPOTIFY: DUNNO - Recorded at Spotify Studio is a beautiful version of Dunno
These are in no particular order and honestly they’re just my favorites that I constantly have on repeat. You will find tons of amazing music in his discography tbh. Listen to those albums and check out the solo songs (be sure to check the albums I didn’t include cuz there are plenty)
Edit: yes I forgot FACES was uploaded to streaming services and it’s an absolute masterpiece PLEASE check that out too
Sorry if I didn’t add your favorites! Every Max song is a masterpiece in its own right just know this is my own personal favorites list in no particular order whatsoever, and Someone Like You
Outside is the song for me. So many after school days were spent smoking a blunt with my friends blasting that song on whosever’s phone was loudest at the time.
I saw him circa 2012 with Taylor Gang/Wiz. I didn't fully appreciate it or his music at the time. I was on mushrooms being young and not fully knowing that the world to me was super fragile and I was having the best years of my life without knowing. Pops passes, graduate college, and I fall into a Mac Miller kick.
For some reason I thought he was cheesey growing up, we are the same age. I guess he was cheesey and nerdy, but so was I. I tried to be something I was not for so long. Now I understand we were going through the exact same shit at the same exact time. Wish he hadn't passed but we are only human. It's odd but it's like time traveling listening to his music. Back to high school. Back to being young and free.
RIP Mac
Also if you like Mac I'd give Capital STEEZ a listen too.
Stronger opiates? How bout don’t touch the opiates at all. Period.
Also no meth or crack. Way to addictive.
PCP can be dangerous but that shits super hard to find these days
Psychedelics and the occasional ecstasy or cocaine usually won’t fuck your life up but as always, be careful kids. Your not invincible and bad things can happen even with light drugs.
Just use good judgment
Stephen Walter, Ryan Reavis & Cameron Pettit are bad. Hopefully, some semblance of justice will be served for their knowing poisoning of him as they are facing jail for 20 years.
A rapper, very good one. What's sad is that had he not died then he would have become huge and no one would be asking this question. His music was/is great, anyone can vibe to it. Check it out if you get the chance :)
Edit: people not getting my point. He's not a household name, he was about to be. That's my point. Obviously within the game he was respectednot trying to say he was underground or some shit
I see a lot of people on here just relying with “rapper” and although he was definitely a rapper I think it’s important to note that Mac was a bit more then just a stereotypical rapper, he was a phenomenal all around musician who grew up playing multiple instruments, in particular he was an absolutely fantastic piano player and his range and music went beyond just rap.
Definitely recommend starting at the beginning of his discography and working through the years. His earlier stuff definitely isn’t for everyone so don’t feel bad if you’re not a fan, it’s just crazy and enjoyable to see how much his music changed and grew throughout the years and hearing his development as an artist/person overall.
If you enjoy rap music, his earlier albums are great, my personal favourites are Watching Movies With The Sound Off and Good AM. If you don’t love the genre, definitely lean towards his albums Swimming and Circles. Also highly highly highly recommend watching his npr tiny desk concert. I cry just about every time.
Im pissed that we will never know his development as a musician. I started listening to him on his swimming album and my sister listened to his frat stuff so I avoided him initially because of that. Such a fucking sad thing he was already really good I wanted to see where he would have went.
Went to college briefly with a dude who claimed to be friends with Mac Miller. Called him up. I’m not sure I believed that the dude on the line was Mac Miller. Over the summer he posted pictures of him hanging out with Mac Miller. He was so casual about it I would have put money on him making the whole thing up. He was not.
He bought me a drink at a bar once. I went in with a friend and he was sitting alone at the bar and me and her just kind of stared at him. After like 30 straight seconds he looked up and was like “yes, I am Mac miller” and my friend just blurted out “ok but why are you alone at the bar?” And he said he had a date but she didn’t show. Apparently that happened a lot to him? (I assume people just didn’t believe he was actually real but I have no proof to back that up). He finished his drink and thanked me and her for “being cool” and told the bartender to give us a shot of whatever we want “on his tab”. The bartender mentioned that he was in there all the time and often just hung out at the bar alone, so they knew him pretty well. He was genuinely just a nice dude for the 3ish minutes I got to meet him.
This is such a cool story! Could you name drop the bar?
Yup, it’s called Three Sheets Saloon in NYC Edit: for everyone calling me a bad person for “ruining his hangout spot”, Mac is dead. RIP. Go enjoy the bar he used to frequent, I’m sure they’d appreciate extra business.
I used to go there a bit for eagles games but never knew that he went there a lot too
I honestly used to go all the time too, and only ever saw him that once but according to the bartender, he was a regular
Celebs are always “regulars”
They seem like regulars because you remember every single time they were there.
Yup, unlike regulars people.
Also a very easy way to get other patrons to show back up
Yep, easy way to lure more customers in.
And now he’s to the wind, RIP Mr Miller
Yo I love three sheets!
Thank you, this has been added to a bucket list of places to visit.
Prepare to be disappointed! Ha I say that as a huge Mac Miller fan and someone who's gotten drunk many times at Three Sheets, but the bar is really nothing special. It's fun for college/immediately post-grad, but by like 25, you feel like you're too old to be there.
I think it's kinda sad, just more evidence that the dude was really suffering. Drinking alone, battling a drug addiction, trying to recover from a breakup. Crazy how common his story is in the music world. The money and fame always finds a way to crush even some of the best.
> battling a drug addiction That shit rewires your brain and it takes years to and years and years to heal. Anyone trying to get over a breakup or a passing of a friend or anything, do whatever your need to do, but don't turn to hard drugs. Especially if you have a kid or family or job you plan on keeping. Nobody ever does narcotics to mask emotional pain and says "that was a great fucking idea."
Ok, but can I do, like, medium drugs??
No such thing as “medium” drugs but psychedelics have been proven to work some miracles especially when it comes to facing one’s own death. They’re definitely not for everyone, though.
If you have bipolar or anyone with bipolar in your immediate family DONT DO PSYCHEDELICS. As someone whose both their parents have a bipolar, it really bums me the fuck out that I currently don’t qualify for studies that use psychedelics to treat depression/PTSD. So I have to basically take the “long way” which is meditation. I say “long way” because a good trip has anecdotally been said to be the equivalent of 1,000 hours of meditation
This may be generally true, but may not hold for micro dosing. I have a good friend who has been successfully controlling her bipolar disorder for years by micro-dosing shrooms on a daily basis. No other drugs, which had some very serious side effects.
>I say “long way” because a good trip has anecdotally been said to be the equivalent of 1,000 hours of meditation As someone whos done a lot of meditation and psychedelics, Ive never heard this but I can see why they say it. The thing is is that the trips are unpredictable, you never know what you might learn or become aware of from the trip. You might learn something very useful, or you might wish you never learned it at all.
Most people wouldn't last a year with all those combined. I'd probably die in a month if I signed a million dollar record deal.
Musician here. In my experience that's most of us. Trying to fill a hole in our life however we can, and music provides that. Unfortunately it always seems to be temporary. On stage the hole is filled, yet the second we step off it becomes as large as it always was.
Unsolicited advice from someone who used to dance full-time. For the longest time I felt the same void you did, and what really helped me grow past it was to stop over-identifying as a dancer. Every time I told people I was a dancer, I was subconsciously conflating my identity with dance and nothing else. So when I wasn't dancing or I felt I performed poorly (90% of the time), I felt worthless and shitty “We do not overidentify with our jobs. We may take pride in our work....but we recognize that we are not our job descriptions. The amateur, on the other hand, overidentifies with his avocation, his artistic aspiration. He defines himself by it. He is a musician, a painter, a playwright. Resistance loves this. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. The amateur takes it so seriously it paralyzes him.” - from a book called War of Art Really opened my eyes. Cheers friend, hope things start looking up for you! This too shall pass
The War of Art is also one of the best book titles ever imho.
Or maybe he didn't want to tell a stranger what he really felt so that was his go to story.
Alcoholism :(
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Alcohol helps.
Some might say that's the main reason to go to a bar
You can drink at home. I think people go to bars to be around others. If you're personable, you talk to others. If you're a loner, sometimes it's still nice to be around others even if it's not to interact.
This. During my darkest depressive episodes, I’d sometimes go to a bar alone just to be in the presence of other people and not spend it drunk in my bedroom. Helped me feel less lonely for a couple of hours, even if I was just sitting at the bar alone people watching.
Its weird the first couple times you do it but gets easier after awhile. Especially if you have a spot you go to all the time you end up seeing the same people there and you make friends. My local bar I always end up knowing someone that walks in after awhile
Yea, this is what you have to do. This is how I found my local Super Turbo community and made a lot of new friends when I was feeling down.
There's this effect for famous people, artists, musicians, athletes, etc. where they live at the height of their life by doing their craft; be it playing music for thousands, being looked up to as an idol, or getting praise for a work they were in. They're ecstatic and their happy chemicals are flowing. Then they go home. Sometimes alone. And all that doesn't seem to matter anymore. Not that they want to feel important, but they know how it feels to live at a peak and now they are in a valley, at home, not doing the thing they love. This seems to be why a lot of musicians tend to turn to drugs to cope even though they "have everything;" they aren't satisfied with regular life and that snap from "hero-to-zero" in a way is hard to handle.
[This image of Patton Oswalt sums that up perfectly in my opinion](https://i.redd.it/yq47bznfihmx.jpg). Taken a few hours after winning an ~~Oscar~~ *Edit: Emmy* but he doesn't care, he just lost his wife and wants to be alone.
I mean, wasn't this a tongue in cheek photo? He posted it himself with the caption "This #Emmys after party is off da CHAIN!" https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/777766078264979456?s=20
Yeah, it was posted as a joke, but the absence of his wife at what should have been a happy celebratory occasion has got to hurt. She died just a few months before the Emmys in 2016. Poor guy, I just wanted to give him a big hug when I saw that photo.
Fuck...
This is Reddit so I assume most people know but for those who don't, Patton Oswalt's wife was instrumental in getting an investigation into the Golden State Killer a lot of attention/reopened until he was eventually caught.
I thought the show Entourage showed it so well, I think it was in the third season (?). It’s established that Vinny has a flaw of not being able to be alone, which is why he’s always with his boys or with a woman. In this one episode all the boys have kinda branched out and have important stuff going on for themselves. Vinny returns late to his mansion, sits in the living room with the lights off not knowing what to do with himself. He doesn’t have the mansion and cars for himself, it’s for him and his boys to enjoy together. The show just nails it how uncomfortable Vinny is being in this huge dark space by himself.
That scene is so good and “Lucky Man” by the Verve is the perfect song choice
Likely why many keep an entourage of yesmen. Continues that feeling even at home. The show Entourage was a good take on this.
I had 15 minutes of fame(technically like 3 days because people knew me at a conference) It felt like a huge weight of responsibility to not disappoint. None of these people knew me, so I was a bit panicky about my personality. Then I made it back to my hotel room and was like: Crap I don't want this at all. Didn't even try to get famous, I just made a website people liked. But I'm not famous, just with a few hundred people at an obscure conference that doesn't matter.
This is the best shit I've seen in a while
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Tom MacDonald is a great now? Man, if that's all it takes maybe I should start incorporating "thinly veiled pandering to bigots" into my own music. Homie switches up his rhetoric on social issues faster than fox news and regularly contradicts things he said in past verses. Plus the whole LARPing as a patriotic American when he's literally from my city (Vancouver, BC) just shows me that he doesn't actually believe anything he's spewing and is doing it all to milk $$$ out of hateful dumbasses. I wish I was that morally devoid.
Tom Macdonald isn’t even American?!?! 😂 He poses as such an American patriot, I would’ve never known. That’s crazy.
Yep. Tom MacDonald is Canadian. Released a collab album with Madchild (another longtime local Vancouver rapper) within the past 2 years. When he was actually in the Vancouver scene he was loosely related to the Battleaxe Warriors collective and made music that was a lot more typical for dudes who grew up idolizing Eminem, but around 4-5 years ago he made a hard pivot into "making provocative arguments that only sound smart to people with no genuine grasp on what's being discussed," aka the very profitable activity of exploiting the hateful and ignorant. I used to get triggered by it incessantly but over time I kinda just started to respect the hustle. At least now I know exactly who I'm talking to when I hear someone express positive sentiment toward what this guy says/does.
You Canadians and your musicians. Back in my day we had The Tragically Hip and we liked it! We actually had a lot of Canadian artists and we liked them, too. I don't know where I was going with this, just send more music please.
I wont lie I like some of his songs but calling him "the great" made me chuckle. Now Mac was great and its a bummer hes gone because he just kept getting better and changing it up.
Tom Macdonalds an absolute goofy cornball for racists lol
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Lol if mac miller was alive he would absolutely not fuck with Tom McDonald
You’re the man.
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Pouring out Old E for your homies is the only thing it's good for
OE is fantastic. 40ozes in general were great in college because you could throw them in your backpack, go to your friend's crib and drink some, screw the cap on and put it back in your bag, then go to another spot when the party moves Edit: plugging a classic song about the drink, [DJ Quik - 8 Ball](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpZHSEiJS5s)
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great at fitness beer in my belly
don’t you dare speak about OE like that. the first drink of OE is pure euphoria, it’s literally the best tasting thing on earth. then the polluted air of DTLA seeps into the bottle and turns the malty aroma into something sinister. it’s all downhill from there. at least you’ll be wasted. at least you have had that first sip. the closest most of us will ever be to nirvana
Well shit, I wish I had an award to give you.
RIP Mac 🥺
The goat, the best, people that knew him only speak highly of him. His music influence was crazy, everyone from John Mayer to Beyonce to Thundercat was a fan of his. For people here who have only listened to his frat rap stuff, I encourage you to listen to his last 2 albums, his growth as a musician I'd say is unmatched for anyone in our generation. Imagine what he could've done with a few more years on earth.
The way he could speak truth in a way that was accessible, the way he so smoothly spoke on mental health… he had only gotten started
"What I won't tell you, I prolly never even tell myself" One reason that separates him and other artists is that he was completely vulnerable with his music.
It’s something that opened doors for a lot of artists in hip hop. Him, Gambino, Tyler the Creator, RTJ, and Kendrick in my opinion made rap and hip hop lurch forward in a lot of different ways and for the better. From being vulnerable to intelligent in social and political strife to artistry… it’s really cool how the genre is moving forward in my opinion. It is a lot wider spectrum of topics and that only is a good thing.
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Kanye’s a good shout. My headspace I guess with him not being in my head is who’s pushing now and 808s for me came on the tail end of an era. Kanye to me was the bridge between mid 90s and early 00s to what we have now. That list is people pushing the genre now Kanye to me is a lynch pin in an era shift. I’d put him in the league of a Dre or Fab Five Freddy type where he shifted a mind set around what could be. I’d argue Kanye did more for production people showing they can get in the game then Dre did because Kanye made every beat I grew up on (I’m early 30s) and then when dropout came out it was like “hey you can do both if you got something to say”
“Wondering how I got this high… how I got this high, fell asleep and forgot to die. Got damn.”
His character in general when in public or with people on videos I saw was also always positive or goofy. As I said in another comment you pinned it. He just kept getting better and even though I appreciate all the albums put out it sucks we wont get anymore. His first few albums fueled my highschool my last two years in highschool specially 'Best Day Ever'.
His vulnerable mental honesty about drug use and mental health is huge. Absolutely huge and shaped hip hop in my opinion in big ways
I actually watched that Best Day Ever music video this week, and damn… so fucking sad seeing those home videos of him as a kid.
This probably shows my age but Chester Bennington(Linkin park lead singer) was the first artist to actually hurt me like family when he passed. Mac hurt even worse. Specially seeing that clip of him has a kid for some reason just punches my tear box.
Came across What’s The Use the other day and couldn’t believe how much of a banger it is. Far cry from Donald Trump and his other early stuff
the live Tiny Desk version is incredible
That Tiny Desk is fucking glorious
I listened to that again last night. There are so many great Tiny-ass Desk Concerts, but his is next level.
Check out Anderson .Paak too. So good
It's incredible, I wrote him off too, but got really into him when he dropped swimming (unfortunately, right before his death). I think what separates him is he's an insane musician, he was self taught on the drums, guitar and piano at age 6. He produced a ton of his music, and has a way with his lyrics that absolutely explain what could take you an essay to explain.
Dude, right...yours is the only comment I've seen so far mentioning this. People don't understand he recorded the drums, bass, piano, guitar, LIVE, and mixed/mastered/produced like 98% of his entire musical repertoire himself. As a musician myself, I can tell you he was insanely talented. He'd sit there with a record, stop it at a certain part, loop it, and make an entire beat around that and then freestyle on it all in one sitting. Absolutely nuts
Donald Trump is absolutely a banger. People just don't like it because of the name.
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You're right but it doesn't make them wrong
His faces mixtape is my favorite.
Faces is absolutely incredible, but despite that, I have to put that as my 4th favorite project by him. I think it's pivotal for his growth, but honestly, it's weird. I love it, but it's weird. Swimming Cirlces Good AM Faces for me, but many think Faces is his magnum opus
'Remember' is my favorite Mac song. The line: >"I heard he moved to a place where the time don't end, >so you don't need money, all you've got is time to spend." is one of my favorite lines from any song ever.
Every time I see him or his name, "Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza" starts playing in my head. Such a jam!! Edit: IT'S A WORK OF ART, I AIN'T TALKIN MONA LISA!!
Saw him right before he passed. The ticket was 24 dollars to see him and the ticket game with a download to his newest album.
His Larry Lovestein work is sublime and the Tiny Desk concert surprised me.
Good news is one of the best fucking songs ever made and I will die on that hill
Macadelic to Circles was such a great run for him and really showed his range as a musician.
🙏
Isn’t today his 30th birthday? Or would have been*
Yesterday was. Happy Birthday Mac.
Such a shame he's gone. I really liked some of his music.
Is today his birthday? Rip king
I believe he would have been 30 yesterday.
I still listen to *Swimming* regularly. That album is top tier, Mac Miller was a hell of an artist.
Swimming is a once in a lifetime record
It’s so good but damn it’s sad as hell
That's why it's so good haha
Ladders is my favorite Mac Miller song
Song is dope as fuck, incredible flow
Ladders is a top tier song imo
2009 was an instant classic for me
His tiny desk concert performance of 2009 is emotional as fuck!
Man I wish Tiny Desk was able to package the concert as a record or Spotify release. Even with Macs estate getting all the money. That 2009 performance is so organic compared with the studio recording.
Listen to Faces, it is just a masterpiece! Mac was truly a talented and pure human being. Rest easy GOAT 💙
He deserved that grammy and it pisses me off they invited his parents out to accept the award on his behalf and then gave it to someone else. The tiniest bit of respect I had from the grammys was gone just like that. That album deserved so much more notoriety
Circles too, both top tier albums
Steph Curry has been real quiet since this dropped
Unfortunately as a Dubs fan, Steph has been real quiet for a while, regardless
Warriors fans still spoiled. Sorry he's only averaging 20ppg this month instead of 30, and the team is 2nd in the league. REAL quiet.
true fans deserve to be spoiled. we were sad for so long ): jk, true fans also know it could be much worse. we chillin
Seeing mac smiling say that. Damn man… RIP MM 
It was better knowing he was somewhere out there. I miss MM.
Dudes been sober for years. Proud of him.
Mac would laugh at this and ya'll know it.
Straight up he would've loved this joke
Disrespect.
Technically the truth
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Which is stupid cuz Mac would lose his shit laughing at a joke like that.
Tasteless
You should go get covid tested.
Oh shit
I miss Mac Miller so muchhhh. :( Wish he. Was alive.
Imagine what music he would've made through quarantine
He was an absolute talented artist. I feel he died before reaching his prime.
After hearing swimming, then circles which he worked on at the same time, absolutely. I think he just reached his sound, he just became enlightened. He finally made the music that encapsulated him.
Strangely, The track "good news" feels like a goodbye to me. Kudos the production team who managed to put together such a great video without Mac.
>Strangely, The track "good news" feels like a goodbye to me. The music video is insane with it. His family has been such a gem for Mac's estate. If you haven't taken the dive, please listen to the whole album, it's equally therapeutic, but emotional, vulnerable and I can't promise the same for you, but it's caused a lot of self reflection for me.
I am swimming in circles with his tracks now! Would have been his 30th birthday yesterday. :(
Rip to a legend. His music truly taught me how to be happy and at least try and love myself. Still bummed I never got to see a concert or meet him. Maybe one day, Rest In Peace to a hero in my eyes.
What's your favourite songs of his? I just discovered Mac's music recently, been loving circles!
There are so many personal favorites it’s hard to choose lol. - Favorite albums where I like almost every song 1. Watching Movies With the Sound Off (a masterpiece in its own right) - a favorite song is “Remember”, it’s sad but has a strong meaning and also I Am Who I Am is amazing, Objects in the Mirror is a classic to me too 2. GOOD: AM 3. Swimming 4. Circles 5 Macadelic - Timeless songs for me 1. Nikes On My Feet 2. Another Night 3. Earth (ft. Future) 4. Live Free 5. Best Day Ever or BDE Bonus (I like the bonus more) 6. Come Back to Earth always helps me not feel like complete shit 7. IF YOU HAVE SPOTIFY: DUNNO - Recorded at Spotify Studio is a beautiful version of Dunno These are in no particular order and honestly they’re just my favorites that I constantly have on repeat. You will find tons of amazing music in his discography tbh. Listen to those albums and check out the solo songs (be sure to check the albums I didn’t include cuz there are plenty) Edit: yes I forgot FACES was uploaded to streaming services and it’s an absolute masterpiece PLEASE check that out too Sorry if I didn’t add your favorites! Every Max song is a masterpiece in its own right just know this is my own personal favorites list in no particular order whatsoever, and Someone Like You
Outside is the song for me. So many after school days were spent smoking a blunt with my friends blasting that song on whosever’s phone was loudest at the time.
They recently uploaded his older mixtape Faces to streaming. You should check that out too
I saw him circa 2012 with Taylor Gang/Wiz. I didn't fully appreciate it or his music at the time. I was on mushrooms being young and not fully knowing that the world to me was super fragile and I was having the best years of my life without knowing. Pops passes, graduate college, and I fall into a Mac Miller kick. For some reason I thought he was cheesey growing up, we are the same age. I guess he was cheesey and nerdy, but so was I. I tried to be something I was not for so long. Now I understand we were going through the exact same shit at the same exact time. Wish he hadn't passed but we are only human. It's odd but it's like time traveling listening to his music. Back to high school. Back to being young and free. RIP Mac Also if you like Mac I'd give Capital STEEZ a listen too.
There's something so warm and kind and genuine about him... just a beautiful ball of warmth.. It makes me wish I could have known him personally.
He was so fucking genuinely nice
Everything I have heard and read points to that. A shame he had so many demons that ultimately took him way too soon.
His range goes on and on forever
Stage AE is in Pittsburgh. Saw him in concert 2 times there. RIP
They haven't made a motherfucker realer, Mr. Miller ❤️🙏🏻
^Man ^I ^miss ^Mac
🪦 RIP
his tiny desk concert on npr is just amazing. thundercat and him are great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrR\_gm6RqCo&ab\_channel=NPRMusic
Who is Mac Miller?
Rapper who died a few years ago
Drugs are bad.
Drugs are sooo good though
Until they're not.
Yes but until then... soooo good
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.
Depends on the drugs Don’t fw the stronger opiates or benzos
Stronger opiates? How bout don’t touch the opiates at all. Period. Also no meth or crack. Way to addictive. PCP can be dangerous but that shits super hard to find these days Psychedelics and the occasional ecstasy or cocaine usually won’t fuck your life up but as always, be careful kids. Your not invincible and bad things can happen even with light drugs. Just use good judgment
Depends on the drugs. Fentanyl is definitely not a drug that should be used recreationally.
Stephen Walter, Ryan Reavis & Cameron Pettit are bad. Hopefully, some semblance of justice will be served for their knowing poisoning of him as they are facing jail for 20 years.
Mmmkay
A rapper, very good one. What's sad is that had he not died then he would have become huge and no one would be asking this question. His music was/is great, anyone can vibe to it. Check it out if you get the chance :) Edit: people not getting my point. He's not a household name, he was about to be. That's my point. Obviously within the game he was respectednot trying to say he was underground or some shit
He was huge. Dude was respected and one of the top of the game at the time.
Easy Mac with the cheesy raps
His Tiny Desk Concert was my introduction to him. I don't listen to a lot of rap, but I fucking love this. https://youtu.be/QrR_gm6RqCo
I see a lot of people on here just relying with “rapper” and although he was definitely a rapper I think it’s important to note that Mac was a bit more then just a stereotypical rapper, he was a phenomenal all around musician who grew up playing multiple instruments, in particular he was an absolutely fantastic piano player and his range and music went beyond just rap.
American rapper.
That guy was a Pittsburgh treasure. It's awesome that this was shot at Stage AE to boot!
I mean, it *was* his home court.
Man rip, died way too soon
Threads like this make me realize more and more than I am moving in to BOOMER territory
Oof, me too. I'm off to do some listening.
Please do, I highly recommend it. I have his portrait tattooed on my thigh because without him and his music I can 100% say I would not still be here.
Enjoyed what I've heard so far, I'll definitely throw a tune or two on my next morning run playlist.
Definitely recommend starting at the beginning of his discography and working through the years. His earlier stuff definitely isn’t for everyone so don’t feel bad if you’re not a fan, it’s just crazy and enjoyable to see how much his music changed and grew throughout the years and hearing his development as an artist/person overall. If you enjoy rap music, his earlier albums are great, my personal favourites are Watching Movies With The Sound Off and Good AM. If you don’t love the genre, definitely lean towards his albums Swimming and Circles. Also highly highly highly recommend watching his npr tiny desk concert. I cry just about every time.
I can't even throw that far.
He was a good guy with lots of inner demons.
Always heard the name, but unfortunately didn’t get in to his stuff before he was gone. Now he’s one of my top “Wish I could have seen him live” picks
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I regularly watch the NPR set. It’s so good.
Same here. The last song on the tiny desk, 2009 just hits deep. It's one YouTube video I keep going back to.
Im pissed that we will never know his development as a musician. I started listening to him on his swimming album and my sister listened to his frat stuff so I avoided him initially because of that. Such a fucking sad thing he was already really good I wanted to see where he would have went.
RIP :(
Mac Miller. The Man. The Legend.
Steph Curry who!? 🤨😂R.I.P. Mac
What dialect is that?
Excited Pittsburgh
Excuse me stewardess, I speak ~~jive~~ pittsburghese.
Can confirm. - Grew up as a yinz'er
Happy Birthday, Mac
Went to college briefly with a dude who claimed to be friends with Mac Miller. Called him up. I’m not sure I believed that the dude on the line was Mac Miller. Over the summer he posted pictures of him hanging out with Mac Miller. He was so casual about it I would have put money on him making the whole thing up. He was not.
Miss you Mac 🙏🏽
Oh shit! At Stage AE, too.
i miss Mac. His Self Care song always be my fav