Welcome to "Year of Mac," a yearlong endeavor to honor Mac Miller's legacy once a week across a series of personal essays, critiques, retrospectives, and interviews. We'll be covering everything from his discography and growth to old concert footage and lost tracks, to old mixtapes and skits, and anything else you could think of as it relates to Mac.
“Just like a circle, I go back to where I'm from.”
“He just loved [hip-hop] and wanted to uplift other people in it as much as he wanted to be great himself.”
“He taught me that it’s okay not to be good all the time. It’s much more important to be real with yourself.”
In every corner of Mac’s music — of this album — all I can find is the thrill of the coming day.
‘The Divine Feminine’ is more than a mere album about love.
While Mac journeyed through hell, he was always on his way to heaven.
We start with what terrifies us, but we process the fear and move with it to move away from it.
“It’s really rare to find someone that is smiling all the time and can have compassion for any situation.”
“When I think back to high school, this is the first thing that comes to mind.”
In celebration of its first birthday, Donna and Yoh discuss Mac Miller's ‘Swimming.’
Sometimes, it pays to play favorites.
If 'Swimming' is an album about saving yourself, then “Wings” is a song about turning the motions of ordinary life into our various life rafts.
Thank you for giving us yourself at all times, even the ugly times and the unformed times.
"I’m very, very sad that he’s not able to share any more days with us, but I’ll always keep the memories close to my heart.”
The artistic wunderkinds summoned the best of each other.
We look back at ‘Watching Movies’ through old Mac Miller interviews.
“It sucks talking about him in the past tense, but I absolutely loved him.”
“He defined himself with everything he stood for.”
The more we play ‘Faces,’ the more we realize it was Mac Miller’s grand attempt to make this life a bearable one.