Mac Miller’s Faces, recently released on Spotify 7 years after it was released as a mixtape, was his boldest exploration of the self. The mirror is the battleground where the whole of life is laid bare, where only the stream-like thoughts of the mind can provide an explanation. Look at yourself in a mirror all your life and you’ll see Death at work, like bees in a hive of glass.” The 1950 French film Orpheus portrayed the mirror as the place to watch death’s course perhaps a less macabre interpretation is of the mirror as a lifelong place struggle with self. Mac Miller always had issues with drug addiction and drug abuse, both of which were constant themes in his music.“Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes. On September 7th, 2018, TMZ reported that Mac Miller passed away at the young age of 26 in his San Fernando Valley home due to an apparent drug overdose, making his fifth studio album, Swimming, his last body of work while he was alive. He capitalized ‘REM’ in tribute to his friend Reuben Eli Mitrani, who tragically died at just 20. In October 2014, he created his own label called “REMember Music” with Warner Bros Records. Mac spent the early part of his career with Rostrum Records until he left on the first month of 2014, becoming an independent artist.
He had multiple alter-egos, most notably his producer alias Larry Fisherman and his sick and twisted pitched-up persona (à la Quasimoto,) Delusional Thomas. Mac’s credibility in the rap game increased ten-fold and resulted in a slew of quality releases, including 2012’s Macadelic mixtape, his second studio album Watching Movies With The Sound Off, and his critically-acclaimed 2014 mixtape Faces.
Since releasing his first mixtape at just 15 years old, he became one of the leaders of the new school of young and highly talented “weirdos.” 7, 2018), who performed as Mac Miller, was an American rapper and producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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