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Swimming, Miller’s final album, released just last month, will stand as his best. “It’s a dark science when your friends start dying/Like how could he go? He was part lion.”

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The song sits as the first instance of Miller’s disillusionment with the bright lights of stardom: “And everybody wanna talk to me about some business shit/Never really listening, couldn’t get real interested.” But even more, “REMember” found Miller dealing with a growing awareness of his own mortality, balancing the invincibility of his younger self - “I know I’ve been the shit/All this people full of me” - and the growing shadow cast on the people he thought would be around forever.

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“REMember” is not only a dedication to his late friend, Ruben Eli Mitrani, who passed away the year before, but kicks off a series of melancholic spins (one of which we’ll get to a bit later) wherein Miller debuts his creaky, wailing singing voice. Miller’s broody sophomore album, 2013’s Watching Movies with the Sound Off, pinpoints the moment the artist’s growing musical maturity dovetailed with his developing sense of pain. Famously, this would begin a long-running feud with the now-President, a battle that Miller would take seriously (though with his characteristic tongue-in-cheek sense of humor at every turn) throughout his career. Over a bouncy, delightful sample of Sufjan Stevens’ “Vesuvius,” Miller forecasts his seemingly inevitable rise to rap stardom as he plotted to “take over the world while the haters gettin’ mad.” The raps here are facile rags to riches fodder, yet it’s the shrill delivery that, especially listening back now, stands as a reminder of Miller’s adroit ability to convey the simple joy of finally being recognized for and profiting from thousands of hours of work.

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A precocious talent, Best Day Ever was Mac shedding the final vestiges of his high school life settling behind him, a graduation gift for the four years Miller committed to both school and rap.

It’s a distillation of the exuberance of a backpack rap generation banking off the mid-00’s internet mixtape boom. With nothing but words of praise about the pop singer, he said working with Grande “is a lot of fun” and she’s one of his favorite artists to work with.Mac Miller’s earliest hit, from his 2011 project, Best Day Ever, is a time capsule. “I wanted a foundation to paint on, something very simple with her,” Miller said. His latest single “My Favorite Part,” featuring confirmed girlfriend Ariana Grande, is mirroring his real life.

“On the last album, I realized there’s no love songs, and I wanted to do a project based around that.” Originally set to be a released as an EP, the rapper later changed it to a full-length album to let himself be more vulnerable and address “more emotional things that I would probably not want to say in fear of looking less cool.” “I really like love as a concept.” Miller said. The Divine Feminine was influenced by love, which he says has officially taken over his life and his work.

“Everyone that I’ve worked with on the album has been able to get there with me.” “Conversation is the most important ingredient,” the rapper said. Miller said before he starts making music with anyone, he’s first making conversation. “His creative process is amazing,” Miller said of the Gnarls Barkley and Goodie Mob alum. On “We,” Miller dives into more of a sultry, R&B sound with Green. So what did Miller look for in his many Divine collaborators? “I love people doing things they don’t normally do,” Miller told Billboard, mentioning one collaboration that sticks out among the rest.

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