Everybody is putting the pressure on each other, low-key. What do you think of the state of hip-hop right now? Most of the best rap records recently - Kendrick Lamar, Drake, ASAP Rocky, Vince Staples - didn’t have radio singles. I couldn’t feel good about myself forcing the issue trying to get a radio record. I remember like Punch from TDE was like, why don’t you just call Ariana and get a hit? If me and Ariana ended up in the studio and we made a song, yeah, but I don’t want to force the issue. Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bankĭo you ever feel pressure to do numbers now? You ever think about calling Ariana Grande, like, “Hey, time to return the favor?”
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If at some point in your career you want to be on that level, you can tell us when.” It’s not like they’ve been holding back because I won’t give them a pop record.Īriana Grande performs with Mac Miller on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on June 14, 2013. It doesn’t feel different, know what I mean? Warner has been kind of like, “Do you want to come with a radio record? That’s on you, that’s up to you. You’re on a new label, Warner Bros, after years on Rostrum. I’d forgotten this is what I do for a living. I don’t know if that’s because they were scared to put me in front of the camera, but now I’m excited. I haven’t had anything to promote in two years, because we didn’t do anything for Faces - we did zero press, we didn’t tour. I’ve spent my days here so far working - and I f-ing love nothing more than doing work. But here you can throw on the hoodie and hang out.
It’s hard for me to hide because I’m a short white dude with sagging pants and a bunch of tattoos who occasionally wears jewelry. I get lost in the sea of people here, which I like. You said you’re around people more now - that’s certainly easier in New York. You can’t go on three-day binges, because by day two you’re f-ing freaking out because there’s someone in the hallway, like “F-, f-, f-! Xanax, now!” You can’t be as wild in an apartment because you have neighbors. It’s nice to scale back from the mansion life and get an apartment. I love L.A., but I’m from Pittsburgh and my whole childhood I wanted to live in New York one day. I still have a spot in L.A., so I’m going to be bicoastal but based out of here. But who knows what the weekend will hold. I just moved in yesterday, and I hope I haven’t been too wild already. Do you think living with her will help keep you on a cleaner path? I can look in the mirror and be like, “I look OK.” I’m not 100 percent clean, but I’m not a piece of shit anymore. Shout out to The Clancys - that has been one of their main focuses: my health. I listened to Faces, and it’s a great project because it’s so raw, but every single song is about coke, drugs. Great music came from it, but I’d rather be in the place I’m at now. Go out there and do it, stop hiding,” because that was me before. You’ve got to look in the mirror and tell yourself to stop being a little bitch: “OK, dude, you’re 23 and this is your f-ing life.
This is my life, I enjoy it, and it’s OK that I enjoy it. But once you just breathe and relax, you come to terms with it. I’m not completely sober, but I’m way better than I was at that point. Yeah, definitely way healthier - I mean, compared to then. That was the plan with Faces: “Grand Finale” was supposed to be the last song I made on earth. It just eats at your mind, doing drugs every single day, every second. I was doing a lot of drugs around that time, which is another difference now: I’m not doing as many drugs. Mac Miller ‘Watching Movies With the Sound Off’ Track-By-Track “I’m just being a human being again,” he says. He has new management, The Clancys ( Odd Future, Solange), and a new home base in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, where he moved from Los Angeles just days prior with his on-again, off-again girlfriend of seven years. He’s playing music from his decidedly sunnier new album, Good A.M., the result of a reported $10 million deal he signed with Warner Bros. But on a recent August day in New York, Miller seems downright giddy. He appeared on Ariana Grande’s 2013 breakout single, “The Way” had a hilariously weird reality show, MTV2’s Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family and beefed with Donald Trump before it became passe (in 2013, the current presidential candidate, who the rapper named a single after, called him an “ungrateful dog” on Twitter). His carefree 2012 debut, Blue Slide Park, became the first independently distributed album to top the Billboard 200 in 17 years. It was a disquieting turn for a rapper with an amazing highlight reel after just a few years in music. Mac Miller Releases New Song, Signs Massive Deal with Warner
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