He released two more mixtapes in 2009, and in 2010 signed with the Pittsburgh independent label Rostrum Records (also home to Khalifa), which released his K.I.D.S. He cited the Beastie Boys, Lauryn Hill and A Tribe Called Quest as inspirations, and was close friends with the Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa.Īt first calling himself EZ Mac, he joined the Pittsburgh rap group The Ill Spoken, and released his own mixtape, But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy (2007).

“Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely,” he recalled. He started piano lessons at the age of six, and later learned to play drums, bass and keyboards. He attended Winchester Thurston school and Taylor Allderdice high school, and was committed to making music from an early age. His mother was Jewish: he was brought up in that tradition and dubbed himself “the coolest Jewish rapper”. Miller was born Malcolm McCormick in Pittsburgh, the son of Mark McCormick, an architect, and his wife Karen Myers, a photographer.

Grande said of their time together: “ I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety and prayed for his balance for years … I will continue to pray from the bottom of my heart that he figures it all out.” Shortly afterwards his two-year relationship with the singer Ariana Grande ended: Miller’s last British performance had been with Grande at the One Love Manchester concert at the Old Trafford cricket ground in June 2017, in tribute to victims of the terror attack at her concert at the Manchester Arena the previous month. In May this year, the rapper was arrested after having reportedly confessed to police to driving while drunk and fleeing the scene of an accident, and was subsequently released on $15,000 bail. In 2012 he developed an addiction to “lean”, a mixture of codeine and the sedative promethazine, but managed to kick it in time to start filming his MTV2 reality series Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family, which ran for two series in 2013-14. “I ain’t normal, I’m clinically insane / I guess it’s the result of drugs that enter in my brain,” he sang in Of the Soul, while the punkish Up All Night was a riotous account of non-stop drinking and party-going (“Yea, I got a reputation of gettin’ wasted,” he observed).

Even on his first full-length album, the chart-topping Blue Slide Park (2011), Miller was delivering unnerving bulletins about his mental state.

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