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On his 2014 album Faces, Mac rapped lyrics like In four short years, Mac Miller had gone from seeming like a care-free kid who joked around on his early tracks, to a somewhat depressed artists trying to get his thoughts out in the form of art. The tracks on this album referenced drug use and depression in quite a heavy way that made fans question his mental state. He would later say in interviews that he was experimenting with different drugs whilst making Faces. For me, this really was an obvious view into how Mac was feeling. Even so, this album received a lot of praise from the music community. However, it did sound a million miles away from his early projects. If I’m honest, I didn’t listen to this album religiously, but I appreciated that he was experimenting with different sounds. The following year in 2013, he released his next project ‘Watching Movies With The Sound Off’. His music wasn’t ‘obviously dark’ at this point, but it looked like it was heading that way. I’m not sure if the comments about him being just a ‘cheesy white rapper’ got to him, but it came across like he had something to prove to the world. The thing I noticed about Mac on his 2012 album ‘Macadelic’ was, he seemed like he was going down a slightly darker path with his music. Every artist should change it up and evolve as time goes on. However, it did seem like he was changing his style a bit. He was a ‘new era rapper’ and I really leaned to it.įollowing ‘Best Day Ever’, I continued to listen to almost everything that Mac Miller put out. He didn’t rap exclusively about drugs and gang banging. You know that awesome feeling when you discover a new artist for the first time? I had that exact feeling about Mac Miller…His music felt so down to earth and so genuine.

That was when I really started to get into his music, and it inspired me to start creating my own art. It was around this time that he released his next mixtape ‘Best Day Ever’. I’d followed Mac since around 2010 in the years following his mixtape ‘KIDS’. It was awesome, someone I’d considered a ‘YouTube artist’ had got himself a physical CD! I still remember getting my copy of the album in the mail. Mac had also talked about getting into harder drugs (than weed) after his 2011 debut album ‘Blue Slide Park’ to help him cope with the fame he had started to experience. Mac Miller had always been very open about his drug abuse in the past, and even talked about how his experience with drugs influenced his 2014 album ‘Faces’, where there was a lot of references to dying young and doing drugs to the extreme. Obviously this looks suspicious form the outside, as if others might of been involved. However, there have since been reports that his house had been ‘wiped clean’ of any kind of drug evidence. Was Mac Miller depressed when he died? The reports that followed his death suggested that it was an accidental overdose. It was only a few days before that I had delved into his new album ‘Swimming’, and started to really enjoy his newer sound. I had read that he was in a bad head space after his split with Ariana Grande, so I hoped that he hadn’t done it deliberately after suffering with depression from the breakup.

My initial response was that it must of been some kind of horrible accident, but I soon found out that it was an apparent overdose that had killed him. He’d only just released his new album about a month before! Admittedly, I had stopped listening to Mac Miller for a bit around the time he released his ‘The Divine Feminine’ album, but I had remained a huge fan nonetheless. I was still just praying to god that it was some terrible misunderstanding. As someone who has experienced depression throughout my teens and twenties, Mac had been an artist I has leant on for a bit of comfort when times felt dark. There was already a number of news accounts reporting the rappers death. I ran into my bedroom and quickly hopped onto YouTube. I thought that it must of been another one of those ‘fake news’ stories that Travis has shared without really knowing it’s true origins. My thumb stopped when I landed on a post by Travis Barker reading something along the lines of “RIP Mac Miller, taken too soon.” It was at that moment my phone battery died and I was left in a start of utter confusion and disbelief.

On the evening of September 7th, I was sipping a beer late in the evening, scrolling through Facebook with no real reason.

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