1 and eventually, after getting savaged by critics, went gold. Miller showed minimal-to-nonexistent growth on his first album, but it nonetheless debuted at no. (You also can’t discount his self-awareness he was flip about his advantages at first but later developed a well-reasoned perspective about what a white rapper’s place in the game is or should be.)įor instance, he probably won’t be remembered for 2011’s Blue Slide Park. It sounds trite to say so, but his genuine love for the art form is ultimately what sustained him and later spurred his reinventions. Yet Miller was always a bona fide music nerd. Miller was still just a goofy, grinning white kid rapping with proficiency about things parents just don’t understand, appealing mostly to other kids who looked like him. He was 18 when people began to decide that he was nice-the indie rapper coasted into a surprisingly large amount of mainstream success on the back of two mixtapes: 2010’s seminal K.I.D.S., a lot of which was standard suburban teenager fare, and 2011’s Best Day Ever, which received a commercial bump from a feud with Donald Trump. However long you spent wandering around in the dark, stepping on rakes, you might in time-if you do the work-find the light switch. His music, much like his career and his life, was an unlikely reassurance that you could always learn to be better. Mac Miller asked all of those same questions. With no satisfying answers available, we make it all up as we stumble along. All of the questions feel stupid: Can you corner your thoughts long enough to complete the task? Is there any one correct way to be? How much should you know about the things that you don’t? Are you behind? It’s dismaying, chasing something that seems within arm’s reach for everyone else yet lies just on the periphery of your own understanding.
There’s plenty of advice for navigating hardship (your parents likely supplied plenty of adages), but it’s often short shrift for navigating the regularness of life. If you’re like me, you were or are currently being pulled kicking and screaming into adulthood.
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