He developed his sound on his 2015 album GO:OD AM, on which he “ frankly with fame, addiction, recovery and the struggle to be a decent person”, said Billboard. He became a peer of artists including Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar and Vince Staples who pioneered progressive combinations of hip-hop and jazz. Initially considered part of the frat-rap scene, his sound shifted throughout his career. His second album, 2013’s Watching Movies With the Sound Off, fared better among critics and established his production skills, which he executed under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. Miller later said that the criticism and resulting stress led to him developing an addiction to “purple drank”, a combination of codeine and promethazine. It became the first independently distributed hip-hop album to debut at No 1 on the Billboard album charts, but received poor reviews. His debut studio album, Blue Slide Park, was released on Rostrum Records in 2011. He released a number of mixtapes under the name EZ Mac and as part of the group the Ill Spoken during his teens. Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 19 January 1992. Mac’s death is a devastating loss and cuts short a life and a talent of huge potential, where the possibilities felt limitless.” “Mac was a hugely gifted and inspiring artist, with a pioneering spirit and a sense of humor that touched everyone he met. “All of us at Warner Bros Records are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic news of Mac Miller’s untimely passing,” the co-chairman and chief operating officer, Tom Corson, said in a statement. If you love someone male sure u tell em- Chance The Rapper September 7, 2018 Its so crazy cause earl literally hit me up this morning him and vince were real friebds I met at a pivotal time in my life through mac.
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