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Mac Miller would have turned 28 today. On September 7, 2018, Miller died of an accidental drug overdose from counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl. His contributions to music continues to live on through the posthumous album Circles, which was completed with the help of Jon Brion, who worked with Miller on his fifth studio project Swimming. His memory also lives on through the […]

On what would’ve been his 28th birthday, Mac Miller‘s brother, Miller McCormick, took to Instagram where he celebrated Mac Miller’s life. McCormick begins by recounting the first time he met his brother. “Sitting by the window in the hospital after your birth is a good first memory. mom’s nurse brought mint jelly. man i’m so proud […]

This week’s trio of big releases, which was comprised of Halsey‘s third studio offering (Manic), a posthumous record from Mac Miller (Circles), and a surprise album from Eminem (Music To Be Murdered By), could combine to do “three-quarters of a million units in total activity,” according to Hits Daily Double. Not bad. HDD adds that […]

Some of our favorite artists delivered new music this Friday, as we were blessed with projects from Selena Gomez (Rare), Moneybagg Yo (Time Served), Mick Jenkins (The Circus EP), and more. Beyond the full-length offerings, some of the best new music this week came in the form of singles: Mac Miller’s “Good News”; Future and […]

Mac Miller‘s family has shared the video for “Good News,” the first single off the rapper’s forthcoming posthumous album, Circles. Directed by Eric Tilford and Anthony Gaddis, the six-and-a-half-minute visual begins with footage taken during a studio session. Miller looks into the camera and invites the viewers to follow him into a dark connecting room: “Come on guys, […]

MixedByAli worked on some of the biggest and best albums of the 2010s. Over the past 10 years, the mix engineer, born Derek Ali, was behind the boards for classic projects from Top Dawg Entertainment artists like Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and Schoolboy Q, as well as other beloved rappers like Mac Miller, Nipsey Hussle, and Roddy Ricch.  […]

The most recent iteration of the Black List, a summary of Hollywood’s most popular unproduced movie scripts, has been released. Amid the titles on the 15th annual longlist is Blue Slide Park, an unofficial biographical script based on the life of Mac Miller, Deadline reports. The script was written by Kyle Anderson and Michael Vlamis, known for […]

Free Nationals, best known as Anderson .Paak’s backing band, have released their long-awaited debut album. The self-titled project was announced in early 2018 during an interview with Triple J, and was expected to arrive sometime before 2019. It wasn’t until last month when the band—consisting of guitarist Jose Rios, keyboardist Ron Tnava Avant, bassist Kelsey […]

GoldLink caught heat this week over an Instagram post that many believed was dismissive of Mac Miller‘s work. The D.C.-bred rapper shared a photo of the late Miller with a lengthy caption that compared their respective albums, And After That, We Didn’t Talk and Divine Feminine.  “I always thought you drove yourself insane about your own music,” GoldLink wrote. “So much that, you […]

Anderson .Paak has addressed GoldLink‘s widely panned comments on Mac Miller. .Paak was notably mentioned by name in GoldLink’s comments, which were shared seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday. In his own post hours later, .Paak called the comments about Miller and his Divine Feminine era “disrespectful” and questioned why GoldLink would do such a […]